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THE START OF THE RESISTANCE TO THE "WAR ON TERROR" IN NORTH EAST


NAMING OF THE DEAD

Manchester September 20th 2008

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Tyneside Stop the War Coalition Bulletin - N0.2

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

Joyce Pickard 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.


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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

Gaza Flottilla Protest

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


Anti-War Candidate Election Page

Letter to Joe Glenton


Stop NU investing in Arms Trade :

We call upon Newcastle University to withdraw its investments of £421,653 annually in the Arms Trade industry (GKN, BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and Smiths). Click below to sign the petition:

Petition


Why the Afghan War is Illegal

Please make collecting signatures for the petition and encouraging all your supporters to sign it online, an urgent focus for your group in the next two weeks. BRING THE TROOPS HOME PETITION:

Sign online:http://www.petitiononline.com/mfaw09/petition.html Download to print and collect signatures: Petition


Fake Political Theatre and Not Election - Mohammad N Asif

Download petition demanding the Troops out of Afghanistan

See Also: The misery in Iraq after six years of occupation BISMILLAH AL RAHMAN AL RAHEEM

Petition to Support British soldier refusing to fight in Afghanistan

Latest Silence Is Shame No. 10 Pamphlet of South Tyneside Stop the War Coalition

Article By Afghan Jounalist -Mohammad Asif who spoke at June AGM of Tyneside Stop the War


North East Delegates Take Part in National Conference "Bring the Troops Home Now"

Report on National Conference of the Stop the War Coalition

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