Market Stall

We held our annual market stall in Salisbury yesterday and managed to sell over £200 of stuff. We had plenty to sell, including lots of CDs, good quality clothes and a lot of nice jewellery. We couldn’t help but notice however that spending was subdued despite the low prices. Perhaps the effects of austerity really are being felt.

Many thanks to all those who gave us things to sell and also to those who spent the morning on the stall. It was enjoyable. The promised rain held off although it threatened at various times.

Pic: Peter

Pic: Eddie

June 9, 2019 1

Market stall!

Market stall planned for 8 June*

We are planning on holding a market stall on Saturday 8 June in the market square in Salisbury starting early.

Members and supporters are invited to bring items for sale please. Wanted are clothes, plants, hardback books, china and pottery, DVDs and CDs. Old tools are popular too. Regrettably, we do not want electrical items, paperback novels (except Penguins), or VHS videos.

If you cannot come in person, please give one or other of us a call (a message on this site will do) and we can arrange collection.

*formal agreement from SCC awaited

March 17, 2019 0

Group minutes: March

The minutes of the group meeting in March 2019 are available thanks to group member Lesley for compiling them. A full meeting with several events planned, see the end of them for the list. You can also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr.

March minutes (Word)

March 16, 2019 0

Meeting

Minutes available shortly.

We shall be holding our monthly meeting this Thursday in Victoria Road at 7:30 as usual. Supporters welcome. We shall be reviewing the death penalty; follow up from the Tree of Life street action; forthcoming film,s and a possible event to mark the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration in 1948. Also the Christmas tree in St Thomas’s.

September 11, 2018 0

Tree of Life: Japan

Tree of Life signing against death penalty in Japan

We held our tree of life signing in Library passage this morning (1 September 2018) and collected over 40 signatures. People were asked to sign small labels which we attached to a small tree to mimic the Japanese custom. There were several people who were surprised that the methods the Japanese employ – solitary confinement, decades of incarceration and no notice of the execution itself – were still employed by a supposedly civilised country.

All the labels will be gathered up and sent to Amnesty for a combined presentation to the embassy in October. Our thanks to all those who signed and to group members who spent time on the stand.

If you would like to join the local group, keep and eye on this site or on Twitter or Facebook (accessed on the left) and make yourself known at one of our activities.

Every month, the group publishes a brief report on the death penalty around the world. See the latest edition here.