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luke
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 Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: WALL OF SOUND TO SILENCE TONY BLAIR |
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| Quote: | WALL OF SOUND TO SILENCE TONY BLAIR
Stop the War Coalition is asking as many people as possible
to help create a wall of sound to accompany Tony Blair as he
gives a lecture on Faith and Globalisation at Westminster
Cathedral in London on Thursday 3 April. (See
http://www.rcdow.org.uk/lectures/)
No doubt Blair will be pontificating about the "values" and
"morality" of his "faith" and how they guided him in making
"difficult" decisions, like the slaughter of up to one
million Iraqis and the total destruction of their country in
an illegal war.
Blair is a war criminal who should have been silenced five
years ago by MPs in parliament, when they had the chance to
vote against a war which they knew was opposed by the vast
majority of people in this country. On Thursday 3 April, we
will meet every hypocritical word he utters with a wall of
sound representing the values and morality of that majority,
which was against the war in 2003 and wants all the troops
withdrawn now.
We want people to bring musical instruments and sound making
implements of every kind -- drums, trumpets, saxophones,
violins, cymbals, whistles, sirens, horns, rattles,
saucepans and cans to bang; we want every type of band,
choir and musical group to join us, all with the aim of
drowning out the speech of a man who should not be in a
cathedral pulpit but in the dock of a criminal court.
Please come at 6.30pm. Blair will speak at 7pm. Spread the
word among as many people as you can and encourage them to
join us on the night we aim to drown out Blair's shameless
lecture.
WALL OF SOUND TO SILENCE BLAIR
THURSDAY 3 APRIL 6.30PM
WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
FRANCIS ST, LONDON SW1P 1QW
JUST SOUTH OF VICTORIA STREET
Nearest tube: Victoria Station |
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nekokate
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: |
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| This is a great idea. I wish I could be there. |
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luke
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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i reckon you could make enough noise from leeds to be heard down london  |
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faceless
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| Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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it sounds like a great evening's entertainment!
the last demo where I was making noise I had a megaphone and was walking about, informing people very loudly that 'I have nothing to say, please stop looking at me.' haha |
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RaulRipp
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Location: Coventry
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| Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:54 am Post subject: |
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| That's genius! I'm not gonna be able to make it, but I'll spread the word... |
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luke
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luke
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Anti-war protesters heckle Blair as he preaches on faith and extremism
Tony Blair has spoken of his "strong sense of mission" as he called for religious faith to be put at the centre of efforts to solve the world's problems.
Speaking from the pulpit at Westminster Cathedral, the former prime minister said that in a world that was opening up both economically and politically, the role of faith was "especially important".
He also spoke out against religious extremism while demonstrators shouted outside.
Anti-war protesters gathered outside Westminster Cathedral as Tony Blair speaks about the importance of faith
Blair announced details of his Faith Foundation, to be launched later in the year, saying it could help "awaken the world's conscience" and bring religions together to eradicate poverty and hunger.
But the address on faith and globalisation, his first major speech since leaving office, was marked by hundreds of anti-war protesters staging a noisy demonstration outside.
Campaigners from the Stop The War Coalition attempted to drown out the speech, blowing whistles, banging drums, and rattling pans in a cacophony heard as a low din inside the cathedral's walls.
And at the beginning of the speech Mr Blair faced an embarrassing interruption when he misinterpreted calls from the back as heckles, when in fact people were complaining because they could not hear.
A perturbed Mr Blair apologised for the "people who follow me around" before realising his mistake.
Tony Blair addressed a crowd of 1,600 at Westminster Cathedral as protesters heckled from outside
He later joked: "It's a really new thing for me for people to be frustrated because they can't hear me."
Mr Blair told the 1,600-strong crowd that faith needed to be rescued from extremism, such as "extremism in the name of Islam through the activities of al Qaeda and others".
He said: "Either positively (religion) will encourage peaceful co-existence by people of faith coming together in respect, understanding and tolerance, retaining their distinctive identity but living happily with those who do not share that identity.
"Or it will work against such co-existence by defining people by difference, those of one faith in opposition to others of a different faith.
"In this context, inter-faith action and encounter are vital. They symbolise peaceful co-existence."
Referring to the increasing profile of China, India and the East, Mr Blair said the world "will be immeasurably poorer, more dangerous, more fragile and above all, more aimless" without a spiritual dimension.
Mr Blair, who said he was "not a religious leader" and made "no claims to moral superiority", is currently working as an international envoy to the Middle East.
He has also taken up positions in the private sector and a teaching job on the subject of faith and globalisation at Yale University in the US.
He said the Tony Blair Faith Foundation will focus on bringing different religions together to tackle the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, providing universal primary education and combating HIV and Aids.
Mr Blair said: "We are falling short as a world in meeting them.
"It would be a great example of faith in action to try to bridge the gap and awaken the world's conscience."
The foundation will bring together Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists to promote faith as a relevant and positive force for good.
Mr Blair took several questions from the audience, submitted in advance in writing, but none of them touched directly on the Iraq war.
Police step in to control the protest against the war in Iraq
When asked if he would have done anything differently in office he said: "There is nothing I look back on now and say that as a result of my religious journey I would have done things very differently, but that is expressly not to say that I got everything right."
He said he was a Christian throughout his political career and had been attending mass for 20 to 25 years before converting to Catholicism.
Mr Blair said religion had become more and more important to him and he felt a "strong sense of mission" about his foundation.
Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy-O'Connor described the speech as "marvellous, moving, personal and very brave".
As the audience departed demonstrators continued to make a noise, waving placards denouncing Mr Blair as a war criminal, and calling for him to be brought to trial.
Organisers said they were not attacking Mr Blair's freedom of speech, but his right to be treated as a pillar of respectability.
A former monk who gave his name as John criticised the decision to allow the former prime minister to speak at the cathedral.
"What (Archbishop of Westminster) Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has done in welcoming Blair into the fold is enough to make a Pole a Protestant," he said.
"I am disgusted to see so many pious holy nuns swanning in to give him legitimacy."
Former hostage Norman Kember took part in a silent protest organised by Catholic peace organisation Pax Christi before the speech.
He said: "What happened to me was a minor blip in my life compared to the continuing plight of Iraq and the way ordinary Iraqi citizens have suffered so much.
"I feel it is partly Mr Blair's fault and I don't like the idea of him talking in a church.
"I would ask Tony Blair to confess that he made an error and repent for it." |
from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=556668&in_page_id=1770 |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| haha, that looks like a laugh. I was on one similar a few years back that ended up being stuck in a lane for a bit; the noise as all the whistles and drums were banged was deafening... |
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Brown Sauce
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| "eradicating world poverty" ... I though Blue Peter was doing that ... |
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