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Afghanistan: Time to Go
Tyneside Public Meeting
Wed 15th September
7:00pm, Herschel Building
Newcastle University Main speaker:
John Rees, National Officer of Stop the War
Time to Go (above)
and Islamaphobia and the Media October Flyer
PLANT FOR PEACE YORK SUNFLOWER RALLY
Joyce Pickard Speaking In Kings Square, York Saturday 4th September
 York Against the War
sunflower rally for peace. It was very well organised everyone being given a
sunflower and was both a very firm stand and very broad protest with speakers,
an open microphone, a singer and poets. It was a privilege to hear Joyce
Pickard, Freeman of the City of York and long serving peace campaigner and
Peter Brierly for Military Families Against the War. Lyndsay German spoke about
Tony Blair's book and the campaign to put it in the crime section of the
bookshops. A representative of the Tyneside Stop the War Coalition addressed
the rally and brought greetings from the Tyneside stop the war movement and in
particular from the South Tyneside contingent who travelled there. The rally
although not very large made a big impression on the hundreds of people in
close streets of York and became the focus for those 2 hours.
http://www.yorkagainstthewar.org.uk
AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO GO
National Demonstration
20 November - Central London
Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and British Muslim Initiative More
details: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
Newcastle Public Meetings September to October - Details to Follow
National Demonstration Leaflet
The war in Afghanistan is in crisis. The strategy is
crumbling, with Obama’s sacking of General McChrystal and as more and more
people are killed it increasingly exposes the constant misinformation and big
lie technique of the monopoly controlled media that occupation is liberation.
The violence and destruction are intensifying. Thousands
of Afghan civilians are dying every year and very little rebuilding is being
done. Despite 77% of people being opposed to Britain’s involvement in
Afghanistan, this government continues to send troops to kill and die in a war
that is being lost and which has no justification. Far from making Britain
safer, as claimed, government foreign policy has in fact made Britain a more
dangerous place.
Now is a really important time for everyone who opposes
the war to take action. There is growing unease about the war in Parliament but
the government is still committed to at least four more years of bloodshed in a
futile war. The war is a very weak point for this government and deeply
unpopular. What we do right now will decisively impact in building the case for
withdrawal. It’s time for the troops to go.
Tyneside Stop the War Coalition Reads the Names of the Dead at
Newcastle Monument
On Saturday June 26 Tyneside Stop the war War Coalition
held a reading of the names of the dead at Newcastle Monument at 1pm. A
number of activists from the Coalition on Tyneside and South Tyneside and the
Palestinian Solidarity Campaign took part.
That 66 British soldiers have been killed this year and
unaccounted numbers of Afghans. The tragic occasion was marked by the
reading of the names of all 307 (now 308) names of British soldiers
and 300 Afghan names of those killed by the NATO
occupation as representative of the over 30,000s murdered by
the unjust occupation of Afghanistan.
June 26th marked asArmed Forces Day by the ruling
elite in Britain was manipulated by the monopoly media to bolster their unjust
war and justify the deaths. The Stop the War Coalition, in
opposition to this cynical manipulation, supported the soldiers and the
people of Britain in the best possible way by calling for the troops
home now, to end this slaughter, cut the war and its massive cost and end the
militarisation of the economy and the billions being spent on the war and
Trident and oppose massive cuts being imposed on the people here. Many
people came up and signed the contact list of the Tyneside Stop the War
Coalition.
Stop Islamophobia: Defend Muslim Communities' - Yvonne
Ridely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ous3c9iaKn4
Yvonne Ridley, former Taliban captive, award winning
journalist and European president of the International Muslim's Women Union,
had a stark message for the 80 people attending a public meeting on
Islamophobia in Newcastle.
“We are standing at the start of a street which the
Jews were dragged down in the Thirties. The demonization of the Jewish people
in the Thirties began with cartoons depicting Rabbis with Grenades in their
ringlets, to make them look subversive, to make them look dangerous and this is
how it starts... and of course we know where this ended."
She was of course talking about the rise in Islamphobia
in Britain and across the rest of Europe: a racist, anti-Islamic viewpoint,
sparked and driven by the ongoing "War on Terror" and fanned by the
pains of the recession. But she also pointed - as did other speakers - for
reasons to be hopeful, such as the broad and united nature of the anti-war
mobilisations over several years.
This European-wide rise in the scapegoating and
demonizing of British Muslims has involved a relentless campaign by politicians
and right wing media to brand Islamic organizations as extremist. It has
seen the systematic abuse of the anti-terror laws to initimdate Muslims.
Most worryingly, it has spawned a number of racist, far
right organizations such as the EDL whose marches have directly and indirectly
led to an increasing number of verbal and physical attacks on Muslims in the
community. Yvonne Ridley said: “I can't understand why the police allow
them [the EDL] to gather. The Muslim extremists who chanted things like
“behead the infidels ” at the troops homecoming marches were banned,
yet the EDL, who have said and done a lot worse, aren't made illegal?”
The meeting was organised by Tyneside Stop the War and
also addressed by a range of local speakers. It follows the recent national
'Stop Islamophobia' conference in London. A planning meeting in Newcastle, to
discuss how to take campaigning forward after the successful public
event, has been announced...
Grey's Monument Protest in Newcastle Against the Criminal
Israeli Attack on Gaza Freedom Flottilla
After days in which the terrible news that 20 peace
activists have been killed by the Israeli navy with others injured when they
were part of the Freedom Flotilla taking aid to the beseiged people of Gaza,
several hundred people gathered at the Monument Newcastle on Tuesday June 1st,
2010 to condemn the Israel's brutal killing of activists and show solidarity
with the Freedom Flotilla Mission. The emergency protest organised by Tyneside
Palestine Solidarity Campaign (TPS) and Tyneside Stop the War Coalition (TSWC)
was chaired by Alex Snowden of the TPS. The Protest lasted an hour with speaker
after speaker condemning the attack and also calling on the British government
to condemn Israel and end its continued support for this criminal regime.
Mahmoud Kurdi who had recently returned from the Viva Palestina convoy last
year said that this was a desperate act by Israel because their criminal
blockade was being broken and condemned world wide.
The protest ended with slogans in support of the Palestinan people and
condemning Israel and its Anglo US backers. A beautiful and moving Palestinian
poem was read out which had been written to condemn Israeli attack.
A Coach is now being organised for a National Emergency
Protest in London on Saturday June 5th at 2pm.
Contact Tony for details: 07719946814
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