Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:37 pm Post subject: MARCH 15: WORLD AGAINST WAR - DEMONSTRATE
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MARCH 15: WORLD AGAINST WAR - DEMONSTRATE
Everything the two million marchers said on the demonstration five years ago has turned out to be tragically accurate. Iraq
is a disaster created in Washington and London. There are as many as one million dead and four million refugees as a direct result of the occupation. Afghanistan is -- in the words of the US based Afghanistan Survey Group -- 'becoming a failed state'. Now it's official that the dodgy dossier that took us to war had indeed been 'sexed up'. Meanwhile there has been no apology and no public accounting for the lies and deceit that took us into these dreadful wars.
Stop the War is asking all its supporters to do everything possible to publicise our demonstration on March 15, the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, which is organised in conjunction with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and British Muslim Initiative. Coaches have already been booked from 35 towns and cities with many more to follow (see http://tinyurl.com/2hdyzo for updates).
Please contact the Stop the War national office ( tel 020 72786694 ) for leaflets, posters, badges etc to pass to your friends, workmates, classmates and colleagues. Please forward this e-mail where you can. Contact your local Stop the War Coalition group and join in their local activities for building the demonstration ( contact the StWC office for contact details ).
There will be WORLD AGAINST WAR demonstrations around the world on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, with events in close to 30 towns and cities already announced ( see www.theworldagainstwar.org ).
WORLD AGAINST WAR DEMONSTRATION
Troops Out Of Iraq And Afghanistan. Don't Attack Iran. End The Siege Of Gaza.
SATURDAY 15 MARCH
ASSEMBLE TRAFALGAR SQUARE, 12 NOON
Stop the War Coalition Excludes Galloway From Rally
What would a Stop the War Coalition demonstration be without George Galloway? Well, the handful who will turn up to the Rally on the 15 March are going to find out. According to "felix" on the Socialist Unity website:
George Galloway incidentally seems not to have been invited to speak at the Stop the War Demo on 15th March despite being the best known and most highly regarded anti-war MP (by those who still inhabit the real world) and a vice-president of the Stop the War Coalition. Just how could this evident oversight have happened?
The renegade SWP-er and Galloway bag carrier, Kevin Ovenden replies:
I’m afraid it’s true that George Galloway has not been invited to speak on Saturday.
jj is clearly well into to Rees spin machine, however. This line about George dropping out of the Stop the War Coalition has been sent round SWP cadre. Another lie. He’s not the only MP who has been subbed, incidently. Others are voicing concerns. I think there’ll be developments.
The idea that this is about personalities is truly pathetic. I hope Galloway talks about this on talkSPORT this week.
what?! thats crazy ... he always got the best response out of all the speeches at all the events i've been to ... hes the one the media always talk to as well
this is a time to be uniting not squabbling like fucking kids
I've often found his speeches to be too loud for comfort - why shout when you've got a P.A. system?
For dramatic effect ?
He might not be sure how well the PA system is working, especially for the huge crowds. So talking loud increases the chances that even the ones at the back can hear
Phew! Andy Newman rides to the rescue. George Galloway has just been invited to speak:
However, neither George nor his office had been contacted to advise him until this morning after I raised the issue, nor to arrange a time for him to speak.
Tens of thousands of people will converge on Parliament on
Saturday calling for an end to Bush's wars. Another massive
demonstration will take place simultaneously in Glasgow.
Five years on almost everything the anti-war movement
predicted about the invasion of Iraq has come true, yet the
government continues to ignore the view of the overwhelming
majority in this country, who have consistently opposed the
war.
Demonstrations will be taking place in more than 50 cities
around the world on the anniversary of the invasion (see
www.theworldagainstwar.org). The London demonstration will
assemble at Trafalgar Square at 12am. It will surround
parliament and end in Parliament Square.
We are asking every one of our supporters to march with us.
Please bring flowers, wreaths, shoes or other symbols to
leave in Parliament Square to commemorate the victims of
these devastating wars.
We are also asking everyone to spread the word as widely as
possible in the hours remaining before the demonstration.
Please send e-mails, phone your friends, tell your
colleagues, leaflet your street or estate or station to
ensure the maximum possible turnout for this vital march.
The demonstrations come in a week in which:
* The so-called "progress" in Iraq following the troops
"surge" was exposed as a sham, with dozens of Iraqi civilian
fatalities and -- in one 48 hour period -- 12 American
soldiers killed.
* Admiral William Fallon, the top U.S. commander in the
Middle East, was sacked for his opposition to an attack on
Iran, proving that an escalation of war is very much on
George Bush's agenda.
* Gordon Brown was confirmed yet again as standing "shoulder
to shoulder" with Bush, following the revelation that
Britain's cost for the Iraq war will double this year and
Brown's promise of troop reductions in the Spring is
unlikely to be met.
WORLD AGAINST WAR DEMONSTRATION
SATURDAY 15 MARCH 2008
Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and BMI
Troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan. No Attack on Iran
End the Siege of Gaza
ASSEMBLE 12 NOON TRAFALGAR SQUARE FOR RALLY
Speakers include Tony Benn, ex-SAS trooper Ben Griffin,
Green Party MEP Caroline Lucas, Lindsey German from Stop the
War, John Mcdonnell MP, George Galloway MP, film director
Nick Broomfield and representatives from Palestine.
MARCH ROUTE:
Down Whitehall, over Westminster Bridge, down Lambeth Palace
Road, across Lambeth Bridge, down Millbank to Parliament
Square for a short closing rally.
MAP: http://tinyurl.com/2bfoa9 (scroll to bottom of page)
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ONE MINUTES SILENCE ON MARCH 20TH.
Stop the War is asking people to organise and observe one
minutes silence on the exact anniversary of the invasion of
Iraq Thursday March 20 at Midday. There will also be a
protest at Downing Street on that day starting at 11.30am.
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i'll try get some pics and video of the london one
i'm keeping my fingers crossed that the weather perks up ... pray to weather gods people!
Does anybody know anything about the group that were causing trouble at the Demo in London ? They have been described as "Anarchists", "Gay Rights Protesters" & "Sectarians". Here are some comments about them found on the Lenin Site;
”Did you hear all the boos George Galloway got?”
“I did hear that, but I'm afrad the boos were being led by absolute sectarian nutters from where I was standing. Galloway obviously drew a much stronger panto response than other speakers, but I doubt that most of it was serious dissent over his organisational fission and opportunism. I regret that these people tried to bully the crowd and ruin every decent speech with their heckling. There were actually bust-ups caused by these idiots, and the stewards were far too soft on them.”
“When the speaker whose name I always forget mentioned the Israeli threat to inflict a 'holocaust' on Gaza, the 'Revolution' bunch actually started screaming 'liar' at him. It was the most embarrassing spectacle.”
“I thought the hecklers were gay rights protesters?? I was sure I'd bumped into Tatchal before the speeches, but maybe i was mistaken.”
What a craven first quote from the "Lenin" site, regretting that George was being booed for something other than daring to criticise the SWP, which would have been the correct reason to boo him I suppose
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