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Protest Blair’s Booksigning |
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Written by Pete Cannell
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:23 |
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We've had a huge response from our members, supporters and the press to the protest we are organising outside Waterstone's, Piccadilly on Wednesday 8 September, 12:30pm, when war criminal Tony Blair will be at a book-signing event to launch his memoirs.
A measure of how outraged people are by a bookshop hosting an event as if Blair is like any other author publicising a book, rather than indictable for war crimes. Within days, our e-lobby has seen 1000 users ask Waterstone's to cancel the book-signing. You can find the e-lobby at http://bit.ly/93tbfF . Please publicise this link as widely as you can, post it to your Facebook, website, Twitter, etc.
A letter asking Waterstone's to reconsider giving Blair a platforn was recently published in the Guardian signed by, among others, novelists Iain Banks and AL Kennedy, journalist John Pilger, composer Michael Nyman, former Guantanamo detainee
Moazzem Begg, ex-soldier Ben Griffin and artist Tanya Tier. We've turned this into a petition for use by local groups, which can be downloaded here: http://tinyurl.com/386xtzm
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Stop the failed war in Afghanistan now |
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Written by Pete Cannell
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:22 |
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General Petraeus, head of NATO's Afghan mission, claimed last week the tide was turning against the Taliban but that fighting was going to 'get tougher' in the next few months.
The reality is that the tide is turning against NATO's war. The death rate for NATO soldiers and Afghan civilians is at an all time high. Nearly twice as many British soldiers have died in
Afghanistan as died in Iraq. There is constant talk of withdrawal dates which in itself is an
admission of failure but there are more NATO troops in Afghanistan than at any time since the invasion 9 years ago. If British troops stay until 2015 as David Cameron proposes hundreds
more will die.
In this situation it is not surprising opinion against the war is hardening,. 77% of the general population want troops home and the argument for ending the war is spreading in the military.
Stop the War has been contacted by more military family members in the last few weeks than at any time since the since the war began. |
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Written by Pete Cannell
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Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:12 |
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For details of planned activity and events click on the Action tab. Please note that the next meeting of Edinburgh Stop the War is 7.30pm Wednesday 1st September and is at a different venue from our usual one. We'll be at the Societies Room, Methodist Church, Nicolson Square. |
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Last Updated on Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:12 |
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Rebranding the occupation of Iraq |
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Written by Pete Cannell
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Saturday, 07 August 2010 07:27 |
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In a powerful article in the Guardian on 4th August Seumas Milne tales issue with Obama's declaration that the occupation is over and the troops are coming home. The reality wil be that 54,000 American troops, 94 military bases and 100,000 mercenaries remain. Read the article here http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/04/us-iraq-rebranding-occupation |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 August 2010 07:27 |
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Wikileaks revelations: beginning of the end in Afghanistan? |
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Written by Pete Cannell
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 19:05 |
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The biggest wartime leak ever of 91,000 secret US military documents confirms everything the anti-war movement has said for years. The war in Afghanistan is pointless and unwinnable and the warmongers have lied to us continually. It must end now. We have to raise the level of campaigning so that the government, parliament and the media are forced to respond to the overwhelming view of the British public, that the time to bring all the troops home from Afghanistan is now.
More at http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2009/1/ |
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