New Progress events and articles for July
The July edition of Progress magazine should be hitting your mats this week, but if you canâ?Tt wait please follow this link to all the articles: http://progressonline.org.uk/Magazine/
EVENTS NEWS
The Left and Darfur - Genocide on our watch?
Tuesday 10 July - 1800-1930 - Committee Room 14, House of Commons
With Brian Brivati, Professor of Contemporary History and Human Rights, Kingston University; Louise Ellman, MP for Liverpool Riverside; Darfuri survivor, Ishmael Jarbo, and Karen Pollock, Chief Executive, Holocaust Educational Trust (chair).
To register, please send your name and email address to Tom Brooks Pollock, on tom@progressives.org.uk, or call 0203 008 8180.
Towards the next election - How can Labour win?
Wednesday 18 July - 1800-1930 - Committee Room 12, House of Commons
With: Yvette Cooper MP, James Purnell MP, Roger Mortimore, Senior Political Assistant, Ipsos-MORI; Polly Toynbee, the Guardian; and Stephen Twigg (chair).
To register, please send your name and email address to Tom Brooks Pollock, on tom@progressives.org.uk, or call 0203 008 8180.
LATEST ARTICLES
Last weekâ?Ts tribute from Hazel Blears on Tony Blairâ?Ts departure, and Rebecca Simonâ?Ts article on the Israeli university boycott got lots of you commenting. We hope our selection of this weekâ?Ts articles encourages you to post a comment!
Is David Cameron brave enough to mastermind his own Clause IV moment, asks Chris Leslie
http://www.progressives.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=1886
Poor school design is hampering our childrenâ?Ts learning, says Ty Goddard
http://www.progressives.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=1895
Gordon Brown has much work to do if he is to lift 3.8 million children out of poverty argues Hilary Fisher
http://www.progressives.org.uk/Magazine/article.asp?a=1896
BLOG
Michael Harris looks at Michael Mooreâ?Ts new film â?~Sickoâ?T in the context of the NHS
http://theprogressive.typepad.com/the_progressive/2007/07/sicko-and-what-.html
Is it time to â?~face-downâ?T the private equity executives who shirk their tax responsibilities, asks Ed Thornton
http://theprogressive.typepad.com/the_progressive/2007/07/private-equity.html
Mike Ion on whether Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski is in favour of a United States of Europe
http://theprogressive.typepad.com/the_progressive/2007/07/tory-mp-appears.html
OTHER ORGANISATIONS
Engage
Rally Against the Boycott - Engage Public Meeting supported by Progress, Euston Manifesto Group, London Jewish Forum, Jewish Labour Movement
This meeting will make an egalitarian, pro-union case for opposing the boycott campaign. We support both Palestinian and Israeli independence and we find anti-Arab and anti-Muslim as loathsome as anti-Semitism.
Speakers include Howard Jacobson, Jonathan Freedland, Anthony Julius, john Mann MP, Jane Ashworth and others.
Wednesday, 11th July 2007, 6-9pm
Friends Meeting House, 173 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Tickets £5 - Email engagetickets@gmail.com, or via PayPal at www.engageonline.org.uk, or cheque made payable to 'Engage', PO Box 40072, London N6 4XU.
