Weekly Worker 521 Thursday April 1 2004

Respect

Election cash appeal

Respect has set a highly ambitious target of raising half a million pounds and recruiting 10,000 members in just over two months.

National chair Nick Wrack is appealing for 3,000 supporters to donate at least £100, which would amount to 60% of the target. An extra 10,000 recruits would raise a further £100,000 in subscriptions.

He estimates the cost of producing material - election addresses for every household, together with posters, stickers, billboards, copies of the Respect declaration and general campaigning leaflets for use on the streets, at workplaces and in the colleges - as £50,000 for each of the eight European constituencies outside London. In the capital, where the Greater London Assembly elections are also being contested, around double that will be needed.

Send cheques or postal orders, payable to ‘Unity Political Fund’, to Respect, Winchester House, 259-269 Old Marylebone Road, London NW1 5RA. Or pay online at www.respectcoalition.org.

Alan Fox

Respect events

• Wales: Convention - Saturday April 3, 2pm, Sandringham Hotel, St Mary Street, Cardiff.
• Leeds: Organising meeting - Saturday April 3, 2pm, meeting room, Leeds University student union.
• East Midlands: Convention - Sunday April 4, 3pm, Moat Community College, Maidstone Road, Leicester.
• Willesden: Rally - Tuesday April 6, 7.30pm, Pakistan Community Centre, off Station Parade, Willesden Green, London.
• Merton and Wandsworth: Meeting - Wednesday April 7, 7pm, Wandsworth Asian Community Centre, 57 Trinity Road, London SW17.
• Sheffield: Meeting - Sunday April 25, 7pm, Platinum Suite, Sheffield United FC, south stand, Bramall Lane.
• Leeds: Public meeting - Monday April 26, 7.30pm, Conference Auditorium, Leeds University.

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