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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! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PALESTINE LIVES 2008 organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Friends of Palestine For Photos of the event - Go to Pictures --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Manchester Public meeting Thursday 5th June @ 7pm The Friends Meeting House. Manchester. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ for photos of Aldermaston 50th Anniversary protest on Easter Monday go to *Details of next Gtr Manc'r STWC steering committee - go to MEETINGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thousands march for a World without War London 15th March
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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.
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. Manchester transport details. North Manchester contact Emma on 07863 223 156 Ring Mark on 07765 122 829 for other areas
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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23/09/2006: Albert Square at it's best - for more more images
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Manchester - Saturday 12th August 2006
300 join 'Speak out for Lebanon' event in Manchester Peace Gardens
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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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pic by Richard Searle. For more photos of this demo, click on PICTURES button
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. 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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