THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT
SOUTH WALES AREA

South Wales activists Ian & Thea out
campaigning with others in Carmarthen, December 2005

There are now more than 170 branches of the Democracy
Movement throughout the UK, with two in the South Wales area:

Cardiff & Area branch
Frank Hughes, 175 Fidlas Road,
Llanishen, Cardiff CF14 5LZ
Tel: 02920 689513
-or-
Ian Phillips, Chapel House, Garth View,
Church Village, Mid-Glam CF38 1RF
Tel & Fax: 01443 205753

Carmarthen branch
John Ridge, 2 The Ropewalk, Carmarthen SA31 1NW
Tel: 01267 233525

It's free to register your support for the Democracy Movement's campaigns and get involved in local activities. We need help with anything from letter-writing and door-to-door leafleting through to staffing information stalls in busy shopping areas. Click here to read ideas for ways in which you can help.

To join in the campaign, either get in touch with the contact in your area listed above, or register your support on this website and your details will be passed on to your nearest local group. Click here to register - it's free, and we do not pass the personal details of our supporters on to any other organisation.

If there is no local group campaigning near to where you live, help us to get one started. There are probably many DM supporters in your area - some may also wish to be more active. Contact Ian Phillips (Tel: 01443 205753) to find out more.

NEXT LOCAL EVENT:
to be arranged

PREVIOUS EVENTS:
Cardiff leafleting - 9th May 2006
Free Europe Dinner - 6th May 2006
Public meeting, Swansea (Reform or Recycle?) - 7th February 2006

Information stall in Carmarthen - 7th December 2005
Click here to see pictures: pic1 / pic2

Vision Europe - campaign launch meeting
Village Hotel, Cardiff, Tuesday 8th November 2005
Read a report of the meeting here (or in Word format here)
Click here to see a picture: pic1

Stop the Cheques
16th February 2006: updated 24th October 2006

In December, Tony Blair went to a European Union summit in Brussels and agreed to a big increase in Britain's payments to the EU budget - from the current level of £3.5 billion a year, to over £6 billion a year.

This is an astonishing £115 million every week, even taking into account the money we receive back from the EU in grants and subsidies.

Blair agreed to this increase despite regular reports of EU fraud, despite failing to reform the EU's wasteful Common Agricultural Policy and despite the inability of auditors to approve the EU's accounts for 11 years running.

So the Democracy Movement has this month launched a new campaign against this shocking waste of so much money.

Vision Europe - moving beyond
the outdated EU
11th July 2005: updated 28th January 2006

The seismic rejection of the EU Constitution by the French and Dutch peoples in their recent referendums has shown clearly that the EU's 'one-size-fits-all' model - whereby laws are made in Brussels and then imposed on 25 diverse countries regardless of what their voters want - is no longer viable.

The diversity of the reasons for opposing the Constitution in these two countries and beyond has shown that different European peoples demand very different priorities from those who govern them.

Crucially, the idea that more and more law-making powers should be concentrated in the hands of EU officials who cannot be democratically removed from office was firmly rebuffed.

Today's crisis presents Europeans with an opportunity to build a more realistic, bottom-up way of interacting that enables co-operation but which also respects Europe's diversity. If the EU cannot reform, then it must be replaced. Vision Europe puts forward a constructive alternative.

Taking Liberties - the EU Constitution exposed!

EU corruption and the related issue of the EU's lack of respect for basic civil liberties are highlighted in the DM's campaign - Taking Liberties.

Leaflets and posters highlight the case of the German journalist Hans-Martin Tillack - who was arrested on 19th March on the orders of the EU's anti-fraud office OLAF - and also set out some of the specific powers the EU Constitution would enshrine.

Taking Liberties intends to provoke voters into questioning whether it is really in their interests for yet more power to be transferred to the EU.

Human rights do not apply - 5 steps to an EU Police State

'Human Rights do not Apply' is a campaign launched by a coalition of groups to highlight the threat of the developing EU Police State. The Democracy Movement has teamed up with Labour for Civil Liberties, Youth for a Free Europe and The Ecologist magazine to produce new leaflets and other campaign materials for nation-wide distribution through the participating groups' networks. Among the '5 steps to an EU Police State' exposed by the campaign is the creation of an EU Police force, Europol, whose agents have been granted immunity from criminal prosecution.

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