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  • 1983
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  • 9 Jan.: subjects include proposed deportation of Shehnaz Sheikh; squatters; anti-nuclear movement (including Greenham Common protestors and Upper Heyford blockade) (with draft front cover). 22 Jan.: subjects include DHSS and benefits; 'experiences of working in a heterosexual cattlemarket' (Cavershams Nightclub and Restaurant); Borough Council meeting; Shehnaz Sheikh. 6 Feb.: subjects include Squatters Action Group; Labour Party public meeting; police; disarming of a suspect package (2 bottles of milk) at the unemployment benefit office by the bomb disposal squad. 20 Feb.: subjects include anti-nuclear movement (including Greenham Common protestors in court); El Salvador; NHS cuts. 6 Mar.: subjects include Vernon Paxford, bed & breakfast landlord, and treatment of homeless; Borough Council meeting; prosecution of 5 men accused of damaging fence at Greenham Common; vegetarian dining; legalise cannabis questionnaire; El Salvador; review of 'On terrorism and the state' by Gianfranco Sanginetti; squatting. 19 Mar.: subjects include CND proposed blockades of Burghfield and Greenham Common; cuts to nursery education; prosecution of peace protestors; Christianity; 'Black beauty' competition; anarchist discussion meeting on 'The benefits of a nuclear holocaust'. 3 Apr.: subjects include squatting at the ABC Cinema; NHS cuts; interview with former tenant of Vernon Paxford; May Day 1983; rights and the police; Ecology Party meeting; CND blockade. 17 Apr.: subjects include Drugs Squad raid on Acorn bookshop; co-counselling; Vernon Paxford; cottaging. 1 May: subjects include cannabis growing; pornography; NHS cuts; prosecution of alleged drug smugglers; mass media distortion; anti-nuclear movement (including CND's magazine 'Sanity', and Burghfield protest); Borough elections. 15 May: subjects include County Council draft plan for Berkshire; anti-nuclear movement; Reading's Emergency Accommodation Project. 29 May: subjects include election campaign (including custard pie hit on the SDP's David Owen); failure of Reading week of action against porn; Reading Family Planning Clinic; anti-nuclear movement (including non-violent direct action at Upper Heyford); the Ecology Party. 13 Jun.: subjects include Shehnaz Sheikh winning immigration case; racism link to complaints against council tenant for noise; 'The Upper Heyford blockade: a personal account'; bicycle use. 26 Jun.: subjects include NHS cuts; student occupation at Reading University; 'one young queen's impressions of Glastonbury and Stonehenge Festivals'; Borough Council meeting; elections (enclosed: leaflet for play 'Cowardice' at The Hexagon). Back page is 'Scrounger', on DHSS Specialist Claims Control Unit. 11 Jul.: subjects include Greenham Common and police actions against protestors; sale of British Aerospace plant and aircraft to Iraq. 24 Jul.: subjects include 'Survivability Symposium' at Hexagon theatre; NHS cuts; police; Borough Council meeting; CB radio. 14 Aug.: subjects include Reading gaol / prison (including interview with recent prisoner); cuts to night nursing service (enclosed: price list for Whole Life Foods). 4 Sep.: subjects include removal of baby from mother by police at Greenham Common; racism link to prosecution of council tenant for noise; multinational corporations; wargaming; police (enclosed: Reading Council for Racial Equality leaflet on racism). 19 Sep.: subjects include tenants' rights; government bunkers under London. 2 Oct.: subjects include case of Margaret Small; Stop the City march; public planning. 17 Oct.: subjects include council housing; civil rights in West Germany; Burghfield squat / free state; public planning; Greenham Common and CND; Reading Cycle Campaign; Borough Council meeting. 30 Oct.: subjects include 'Racist attack - police hide' (Cardiff rugby fans in pub and kebab shop); meeting addressed by David Irving at Reading University; housing. 14 Nov.: subjects include Molesworth peace camp; civil liberties and Police Bill. 27 Nov.: subjects include NHS cuts; anti-nuclear movement (including day of action at High Wycombe); Reading women's movement; War on Want (enclosed: leaflet for open meeting at Reading Centre for the Unemployed; standing order mandate). 10 Dec.: subjects include protests against a visiting Michael Hesletine; anti-nuclear movement; National Graphical Association picket in Warrington; 'the politics of feet'. Also includes: minutes of Red Rag collective meetings, 16 Jan., 13 Feb., 13 Mar., 18 Jul., 9 Oct.; 'Reading between the lines', guide to Reading produced by the Red Rag collective.
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