has set a date. - Saturday 4 May -solidarity conference and Digbeth Civic Hall Birmingham has been booked as the venue for the day.
A planning meeting at County Halll, held jointly WiLT Lne Mineworkers Defence Committee WoGroun Friday finalised the agenda.
The conference aims to draw the links between the women Closures movement, the wolch socald and other struggles women have engaged analist the Tory government over ine last lew years.
The morning session of The Midlands Women's Co-ordinating Committee • for the women's.
the conference will be introduced woman the miner's the co-oralaling Committee. Block shons wil then take nace with women leading the discussion who have been engagca i suruggle to uy and draw out the common lessons.
During the lunch hour fringe meetings are plannwith Women Against Pit Closures, Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners, the National ADO LON Campaign, Greenham Armagh and black sisters.
afternoon the block workshops will continue and the plenary ena will draw the discussions from the workshops.
It is intended that the should end with a short public protest against the threat women's fertility control posed by Enoch Powell's Unborn Children (Protection) Bill.
The planning meeting was pleased to hear that Women Against Pit Closures nationally was calling its own conference as everyone in attendance seemed to agree that the womers Conference had a distinct but complementary role to the WAPC movement Decisive That role is to strengthen the self-organisation of women in all the mass organisations and movements in which active today, that process forward and by having a high profile for the trade unions and the This will encourage • women lo join the labour movement and strengthen ing The next London Planning meeting for this conference, when leaflets will on Tuesday • available, 2 April. For LuKes place further information contact Geraldine on 021-236-1240 or Valerie on 01-254-0261. A creche will be available all day. STRING MINERS,,