Major Events in November

We need your support at these events in November. Please spread the word to your friends, colleagues, workmates, fellow students and neighbours. The Network Against Prohibition needs your support.

15th Community Smoke-in for Human Rights – Drug Law Reform Rally

12 noon – Raintree Park, Darwin City

Saturday 22nd November

Featuring the usual live music and free bbq, we will have speakers on drug law reform, an open mike, fun for the kids (young and old) and stalls with heaps of info on drugs and drug law reform.

Appeal conviction – parliament invasion

9.30am start – all day – NT Supreme Court, Darwin

Monday 24th November and Tuesday 25th November 2003

Please come along to the Supreme Court to show your support for the Parliament 5 who are facing 5 months imprisonment for their peaceful entry into the parliament last year. They will be representing themselves and will need all of the support that they can get from the community. Please spread the word about this. (If you would like to help by sticking up posters, or distributing leaflets in your area, please call NAP on 8942 0570.)

Appeal conviction – Trespassing in the Chief Health Officer’s Office

9.30am start – all day – NT Supreme Court, Darwin

Wednesday 26th November 2003

Gary, Rob and Stuart are appealing their conviction for trespassing in the chief health officer’s office whilst protesting against the inhumane treatment of opiate dependent people in the NT last year. The 3 are unrepresented and would appreciate some support.

Appeal conviction – Contempt of Court

2pm – NT Supreme Court, Darwin

Thursday 27th November 2003

Nicolette is appealing her conviction last year for contempt of court from Magistrate Daynor Trigg. This is an important case for the NAP crew because it show the inherent bias the judiciary has against members of NAP and people associated with NAP. Lousie Bennett from Legal Aid will be representing Nicolette.

For more NAP events, see the NAP diary on our website – http://www.napnt.org/diary.htm

Want to contribute to NAP?

There are a number of ways that you can assist NAP-

• Forward this napnt digest to your friends

• Promote the http://www.napnt.org website

• Promote the napnt yahoogroup http://groups.yahoo.com/group/napnt

• Put up posters in your area

• Distribute leaflets in your area

• Graffiti your area – slogans like napnt.org and Legalise Drugs

• Help organise the smoke-ins, or organise a smoke-in where you are, we can link up!

• Help with the website and internet based promotion

• Tell the media in your area about NAP and the parliament 5

• Donate to NAP http://www.napnt.org/Contacts.htm

• Help by organising fundraising events for NAP

• Talk to users in your area and start a direct action drug user group

• Write a letter to the editor of your local paper

This last point is very important. If all of the members of the NAP network wrote one letter per week to the NT News ntnmail@ntn.newsltd.com.au and say,
The Australian letters@theaustralian.com.au they would be inundated with letters.

It only takes about 15 minutes to put a short sharp letter to the editor together.

Respond to all of the bullshit you see in the newspaper and on the idiot box. As Col Friel says in his letter to the editor of the NT News, our voices have not been silenced, they just can’t be heard. So get out there, try and commit to writing one letter to the editor per week. In fact, why don’t you write one right now!

And always remember to send a copy of the letter to the editor to us email nap office by clicking here

For more info about writing letters to the editor see http://www.mapinc.org/resource/