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G EN T L E GHOST is a house, a place to talk, to eat and to leam, a place to meet and to 9et to know others. Gentle Ghost is people who want to enjoy working and would lik* to help others »s they earn their own living. Gentle Ghost is a community centre based at S3 Norland Road, London W11. Tel. 01-603 8983. L O N D O N S C H O O L O F NON-VIOLENCE. Lectures and discussions every Mondays and Wednesdays from 7 to 9 pm a t The Crypt, St. Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London. For details phone 01-267 0878. WWOOF - Working Weekends on Organic Farms. For details send sae to WWOOp, c/o K 3 Sabine Fload, London SW11. CLAP 4% T A X , the tax on 4 * of y our income for radical and imaginative projects. 615,060 raised for revolutionary projects in the last year. Send 1454p in stamps for latest CLAP Handbook. CLAP, c/o BIT, 146 Great Western Road, London W11. (Tel. 01-229 8219). H EA LTH FO R TH E NEW A G E Are you interested in self-development relaxation, meditation and healing? Or in finding answers to questions like: who am I? what am 1? what is my purpose on earth? can I be a healer? how cen I be Wealthy? Write for details:- 1a Addison Crescent, London W148JP

PUBLICATION S COMTEK '74-. Notes and photos on the Community Technology Exhibition: Comtek. Over 600 useful no-esses with a brief description of events and participants. The next Comtek exhibition will be held m Beth from 2-10 August. Further r formation and this booklet, 25p from Jennie Hiles, Comtek, 13 Bedford Street, Beth. PEDAL POWER. Cycling and the Eenronmant by Phillip Braehi — A*a leaflet issued by the British Cycling Bureau, Greater London -to.-se, Hampstead Road, London k iw i. Enclose s e e . G R E EN P EA C E Save Water - bath wto a fnend. This is but one item f***n the Greenpeace Manifesto' — a 4C-paint guide for the individual *e>cn j a more environ mental way H «fe. Single copy free with » e

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D EFEN D THE 14- Saturday, 3 May. A Public Meeting, NUFTO Hall, Jockeys Fields, Hoi born, London. Speakers include Joan Maynard UP, Jo Gerson (VVRJ), Paul OsCneicher (Amnesty International), David Harding (FO R ) , Peter Ham (Liberal PartyJ, Maureen Colquhoun MP) and others

This meeting will be held in support o f the fourteen pacifists charged under The Conspiracy Law. The fourteen support the British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland. More details from BWNIC Defence Group, Box GO, e/o 197 Kings Cross rin i I |,)pdilil i m l | l 01-837 9? 9 4 7 ^ WELgfT NO TO EEC. Dafydd Thomas, Plaid Cymru MP, will jpeak. at 7pm on toe 7to May o n . W hy Britain should got out of they Common Market. LSNV, Tire Crypt, St. Martin in the EsBfas, ^Trafalgar Square, L ondoOpe*"^ GAWUHf 'lU tM 'fT D a y conference organised by the Commonweal

T rust, Saturday 17 May, 1976, in Cheltenham, a t Unitarian Chutoh Hail, Royal Well. Speakers-. Devi Prasad, Geoffrey Ostengaard, Ronald Sampson Further details from the librarian, 112 Winchcombe Street, Cheltenham, Gloucs. G L5 2 2NW,

NO THROUGH ROAD. "A Public Inquiry into a proposal for a sixlane Superhighway to si ice through (and fly over) all the holiday resorts of the North Wales coast, opens at toe Winter Gardens, Llandudno at 10.30 on May 20th.

Anyone concerned to save what is left of our railway system, anyone determined that the Road Lobby should cease deciding our transport policy for us; anyone concerned to save lend and housing stock and to see that the fifty p«r-centof households without cars should have at least some hope of travelling around - anyone in a word who wishes to establish some sort of transport sanity and to bring the concrete Superhighway nightmare to an end ahould come along at that time and on that day. Contact for more information: Graham Carey, 6 Granville Terrace, Bingtey, Yorks. Tel. Bingley (097-66) 68973.*' PRO FESSO R M ICHIO KUSHl SEM IN AR The Acupuncture Association and Tyringham Clinic announce an important seminar (London Tara Hotel from 31st May). Oriental medicine and philosophy; physiognomy; the acupuncture points aocording tn the laws of yin and yang and Ch'i energy; macrobiotics, shiatsu massage; oriental folk medicine; oriental method oh healing by the laying of hands; integration of oriental medidne into western practice. The seminar is opan to all practitioners in the healing arts, write for details to the Secretary, Professor Micriio Kushl Seminar, Tyrmgham clin ic, Newport Pagnell, Bucks. M K16 0 E R .

WAR R E S IS T E R 6 . Nonviolwit Political Alternatives: 15th Triennial Conference of VJer Rejisters International, 12-19 July 1976 Leeuwenhorst Co ogres Center, Noondw'u'kerhout, T h e Netherlands.

SUMMER CAMP ON C R E A T IV E S U R V IV A L . 6th to 27th August, ■overcoming internal attitudes and val ues preventing harmonious change of life style, ■sharing o f skills end crafts, * exploring dependency and selfsofficienoy, ■examining present World crises and their implications for us personally, ■practical work through establishing an instant village at Cerv\ Houses Farm, Upper Wnarfadale, North Yorkshire.

Enquiries to Tony Hodgson, Shan took Studio, Bovingdon, Herts. HP3 ONG.