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North Manchester Against Wars welcomes and supports the Convention of the Left

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Demonstrate Against The Cost of War!

Assemble: All Saints, Cavendish Street,  (Oxford Rd), Manchester. M15

12.30pm. Saturday, 20th September, All Saints

When the Labour Party conference opens we will march to demand:

Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan!

Defend Civil Liberties!

We want Welfare not Warfare!

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PALESTINE LIVES 2008
1-4pm Saturday June 7th, Albert Square, Manchester.


Palestine Lives 2008 is a celebration of Palestinian art, culture, history and experience. It brings together, artists, poets and musicians from Palestine and England to celebrate the fact that Palestine and its culture still exists despite the 60 years of the Nakba.

There will be stalls informing people of the issues facing the people in the Middle East, as well as peace organisations campaigning not just for peace in the region but against nuclear weapons and all war.

Speakers will bring messages of solidarity to assure the Palestinian people of our continued support in their struggle for peace and justice.

This event comes at a time when the situation in Palestine, particularly in Gaza is at crisis point, with people, especially children, starving, and dying due to lack of food, water and medicines.

We are committed through this event to raising awareness in the face of a daily hostile press and media.

Speakers include:
Baroness Jenny Tonge
Musheir el Farrar- Palestinian human rights activist
Khalid - Palestinian student from Gaza
Linda Ramsden- director of ICAHD UK
Richard Kuper - Jews for justice for Palestinians
Linda Clair - Manchester PSC

During the event there will be music, food, a march around the town centre all in celebration of solidarity with the Palestinian people.

organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends of Palestine

For Photos of the event - Go to Pictures

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Manchester Public meeting

Thursday 5th June @ 7pm The Friends Meeting House. Manchester.
David Edgar joins Moazzam Begg in plea to save last Brit held at Guantanamo


Moazzam Begg, the British detainee who survived Guantánamo Bay, will head a
rally in Manchester of speakers opposing the rise in racism against Muslims.

They join the growing demand that Gordon Brown act now to secure the release of
British resident Binyam Mohamed who faces the death penalty if found guilty by
a US military commission.

Binyam IS the last British resident in Guantánamo Bay.  Detained for six years
without charge, he now faces the death penalty on the bases of a confession,
tortured out of him, following intervention by Britain's secret services MI5.
Campaigners say 'he was abused by America and betrayed by Britain'.

Moazzam Begg will be joined by David Edgar, one of Britain's leading
playwrights.

Edgar studied drama at Manchester University and is one of a generation of
politicised writers. He has said that the Stop the War demonstration in 2003
was 'the most politically influential march in Britain since the 1970s'.

News of that march got through to Moazzam Begg, then held without charge in
Guantanamo Bay. This news 'gave me hope' says Begg, who has recorded his
experiences in his book 'Enemy Combatant'. He has since met the jailer who
told him the  good news of the massive peace march in London.

Manchester's Stop the War Coalition chair, Nahella Ashraf,  who is organising
the rally said, 'The attacks on Muslims abroad are accompanied by increasing
government attacks on Muslims in this country'.

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*Details of next Gtr Manc'r STWC steering committee - go to MEETINGS

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Thousands march for a World without War

London 15th March

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Inspiring meeting 5 years after invasion of Iraq


20/02/2008
Over 150 gathered in the banqueting hall at Saffron on Cheetham Hill Road to discuss ‘5 years of destruction in Iraq – 60 years of oppression in Palestine.’

Organised by North Manchester against Wars the meeting was an inspiring example of the Stop the War Coalition at its best. Chaired by Kay Phillips the audience listened too Andy Burgin from Stop the War outline the successes of our movement 7 years on from its formation.

The irrepressible Rae Street from CND spoke of the challenge of nuclear disarmament 50 years after the fist Aldermaston Marches. Then Jackie Cabbaso, a comrade from United for Peace and Justice in the States, took us through the developments in the ‘heart of the beast’.

But the most powerful contribution of the evening came from Anas Al-tikriti of the British Muslim Initiative. Anas gave us the most devastating critique of the sudden step-change in Islamophobia, which we have witnessed in recent weeks.

If the Archbishop of Canterbury is to face such hostility and gutter insult when he muses about Islamic law, how likely was it for young Muslims to feel a full part of ‘British society’? The message that young Muslims would take from the press and the politicians was that ‘they would never be full citizens, never fully trusted’.

Islamophobia alongside war, he argued, was the recruiting sergeant for alienation and terrorism – at home and abroad.

Finally, George Galloway delivered a powerful and moving speech attacking the devastating legacy of the Iraq disaster. A county where agriculture, writing and the alphabet, libraries, and a system of law were first invented had been destroyed, cut to shreds, on a pack of lies.

He spoke of the million Iraqi dead – raising an image of an Old Trafford where the bodies were piled high and then higher still until the top could not be seen – of the two million refugees outside of Iraq and the two million displaced inside.

That figure, in Britain, would equate to 13 million dead or driven from their homes. Yet when you add to that bald number to the mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters maimed and injured or mourning for their lost relations, then you see a see the reality of a country destroyed by greed and hubris. Damaged almost without hope of repair by imbeciles who claim it is not their fault that God put America’s oil under somebody else’s country!

Not surprisingly, by the time George finished many were in tears.

The contributions from the floor were of equally high quality. Everyone who wished to had theirsay. A young woman pleaded that we reassess the concept of ‘security’ – to look at it not through the eyes of the military but as a way of meeting human need – the human security of homes, clean water, a healthy life.

Another spoke of how in the Cheetham of the 1930s it was the Jews in who suffered racism, then it became the Irish and now the Muslims. “Who’s next?” he asked, “unless we stick together.”

A short report like this cannot do the many contributions from the floor the justice they deserve. But they were powerful contributions no less important than those from the top table.

Our comrade from America suggested that it was unlike any meeting she had attended before - and she may well have been right. I think many people in the room will remember that night for years to come.

It certainly gave a renewed hope as well as impetus for those of us who believe that if they want war without end’ then we will need to be a peace movement without end – until we defeat the warmongers once and for all.

So a big thanks to all the speakers and to CND who helped build the meeting alongside North Manchester against Wars. Thanks again for Saffron for the use of their banqueting hall. And thanks to everyone who came and a reminder that you can book coach seats at HERE.

Hopefully meetings like this across the country will help build the March 15 World Against War demo in London. We’ll see you in London.

World Against War: join the global demo

Five years after the invasion of Iraq the world has become a much more dangerous place. Estimates suggest as many as one million have died violent deaths as a result of the occupation of Iraq. The country's infrastructure and civil society are in shreds. Brown has promised British withdrawals but there are still 5,000 British soldiers there.

Despite talk of a change of attitude to Bush's wars, Brown is sending more troops to Afghanistan. This hidden war is fast becoming a disaster mirroring Iraq. The number of dead in Afghanistan runs in to tens of thousands, according to Oxfam there are four times more bombing raids there than in Iraq, and the result of this devastation is that the Taliban is growing.

Meanwhile instability is spreading around the world. The turmoil in Pakistan is partly caused by the ‘war on terror’ and it will cause more chaos in Afghanistan.

Despite clear evidence that Iran is nowhere near developing nuclear weapons, Bush is continuing to ramp up pressure against the regime there, risking war at any time.

The Stop the War Coalition has joined with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Muslim Initiative in calling a demonstration to mark the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in London on Saturday March 15. It will be part of a global day of protest against Bush's wars with marches around the world from Washington to Beirut, from Sidney to Seoul.

We aim to show our rulers that the overwhelming majority here and around the world want to see an end to these immoral, irresponsible and frightening wars.

Please join us, tell your friends, workmates and neighbours and make sure that on Saturday March 15 George Bush and Gordon Brown cannot ignore the factthat the world is against their wars.

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FESTIVAL CHIC
Our world famour flags - seen on peace demonstrations from Manchester to South Korea made a stylish appearance at the BIG CHILL festival.

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Manchester
Sunday June 24th 2007
1000s march with a message for Gordon Brown
"Bring the troops home or suffer the same fate as Tony Blair..."

WATCH THE VIDEO of letter to Gordon Brown being handed to Labour Party by Rose Gentle from Military Families Against the War plus interviews with marchers and clips from the march and rally.(click right to load video)

Thanks to Chris Edwards for the video

 

Over 5000 marched in Manchester as Gordon Brown was crowned New Labour leader
Meet the new boss..
same as the old boss?

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PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY AGAINST ISLAMOPHOBIA

JEREMY CORBYN MP
Speaking at the Stop the War Coalition People's Assembly against Islamophobia, London 18th November 2006
SALMA YACOOB
Speaking at the Stop the War Coalition People's Assembly against Islamophobia, London 18th November 2006
CRAIG MURRAY
Speaking at the Stop the War Coalition People's Assembly against Islamophobia, London 18th November 2006
YVONNE RIDLEY
Speaking at the Stop the War Coalition People's Assembly against Islamophobia, London 18th November 2006
CHRIS NINEHAM
Speaking at the Stop the War Coalition People's Assembly against Islamophobia, London 18th November 2006

50,000 march for peace and say loud and clear: It's TIME TO GO!

' We are many - they are few ' - Manchester says its Time to Go



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Taken by photographer Ray Smith, this A2 full colour poster shows the colour, size and vibrancy of Manchester ant-war protest .

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Watch Time To Go HERE and HERE on YouTube

23/09/2006: Albert Square at it's best - for more more images CLICK HERE

Listen to the speeches again on YouTube
(Thanks to Ady Cousins and Chris Edwards)
George Galloway MP CLICK HERE
Tommy Sheridan (Solidarity MSP) CLICK HERE
Rose Gentle (MFAW) CLICK HERE
Richard Horton (editor, The Lancet) CLICK HERE
Watch Galloway on BBC News 24 CLICK HERE
Eamonn McCann (Raytheon 9) CLICK HERE
Sondes Malik (MAB) CLICK HERE
Nahella Ashraf (Greater Manchester Stop the War) CLICK HERE
Craig Murray (former UK Ambassador) CLICK HERE

John Rees (Respect) CLICK HERE
Bernard Reagan (Palestine Solidarity Campaign) CLICK HERE
Lindsey German (Stop the War Coalition) CLICK HERE
Soumaya Ghannoushi (British Muslim Initiative) CLICK HERE
Tony Benn CLICK HERE
Flight-Lieutenant Malcolm Kendal-Smith CLICK HERE
Kamel Mazen (Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation) (CLICK HERE
Brian Eno CLICK HERE

Salma Yacoob and Paul Macknie (UCU) CLICK HERE
Jacqui Burke (Greater Manchester CND) CLICK HERE

Peggy Seeger sings CLICK HERE
Jacqui Burke (Greater Manchester CND) CLICK HERE
Lauren Booth (journalist) CLICK HERE
Paul Harper (Unison, NHS Logistics Manchester) CLICK HERE
Roudabeh Shafie (Action Iran) CLICK HERE
Michael Meacher MP CLICK HERE





On the march (pic: Richard Searle)


' Die in' shows the cost of Blair's wars (pic: Richard Searle)

Manchester - Saturday 12th August 2006

300 join 'Speak out for Lebanon' event in Manchester Peace Gardens

For more photos of this event - click on this PICTURES button

United Nations resolution

If the United Nations resolution helps stop the killing, it is to be welcomed. But it only calls on Israel to end "offensive military operations", and Israel insists all of its barbaric attacks are "self-defence". As the UN was passing resolution 1701, the Israeli military launched a full-scale land invasion aimed at razing southern Lebanon to the ground and the US agreed to rush illegal cluster bombs to Israel to enable more horrific slaughter of civilians. For there to be a lasting peace there must be an unconditional ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of Israel's military from Lebanon.




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100,000 take to the streets - London 5th August

pic by Richard Searle. For more photos of this demo, click on PICTURES button


pic by Kay Phillips

The Stop the War demonstration on Saturday 5 August brought more than 100,000 protestors on to London's streets. This is unprecedented for a protest called with only one week's notice.
They came from every corner of Britain. Hundreds of national and local organisations were there: from the trade unions, from Muslim associations and mosques, from Lebanese community groups; from CND and dozens of local peace groups; from the Green Party, Respect, Labour against the War and many other political organisations. Such is the nationwide anger at Israel's barbaric destruction of Lebanon and Gaza. All were united in the demand for an immediate unconditional ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza.



22nd July 06 - A nationwide day of protests -

2000 march in Manchester to a rally in Albert Square

Stop the War on Lebanon

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18/03/2006
Over 100,000 peace protesters join London march to call for the end to the occupation of Iraq, hands off Iran and defend the Muslim community.

For pictures of the demo CLICK HERE

16/030/2006
See Tony Benn speak in Manchester

CLICK HERE to watch on video

12/12/2005
International Peace Conference Great Success.


Over 1,300 delegates from all around Britain were joined by representatives of the anti-war movement around the globe for the Stop War Coalition's Peace Conference on 10 December.
An electric atmosphere developed as delegates listened to Iraqi delegates and military families from Britain and the US, including Cindy Sheehan, call for an end to the occupation of Iraq.

The conference called for a day of international action on the anniversary of the war, 18 March 2006.


Listen to the inspirational and informative speeches on MP3 files
MORNING SESSION
MILITARY FAMILIES SESSION
INTERNATIONAL SESSION