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Artists for Gaza is Jazza
As a response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Palestine, a group of artists have for some months been planning a festival that will bring together luminaries from all areas of music to raise awareness, support and funds for the people of Gaza. As with the devastation that besets Palestine, the JAZZA Festival will not… Continue reading
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URGENT: BLAIR RUNS AWAY AGAIN FROM DEMOCRATIC PROTEST
Tony Blair’s decision to cancel his party at Tate Modern gallery today, following him pulling out of a book-signing at Waterstone’s, is another victory for the anti war movement and for the overwhelming majority in Britain who oppose his wars. Continue reading
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Tony Blair Book Signing Protest, 8 September, 2010
TONY BLIAR TO DO BOOK SIGNING FOR STOP THE WAR When Tony Blair holds a signing of his memoirs on Wednesday 8 September at Waterstone’s Piccadilly, there will no photos with Blair and no personal dedications allowed, and all bags, backpacks and briefcases must be handed over, along with cameras and mobile phones. Following objections… Continue reading
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More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed
NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS. Continue reading
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John Pilger – For Britons, the party game is over
The game of parliamentary politics is over for so many Britons, especially the young. In 2005, a bent system allowed Blair to win with fewer popular votes than the Tories in their electoral catastrophe of 1997. New Labour’s greatest achievement is the lowest turnouts since universal voting began. Today, voters watch Brown give billions of… Continue reading
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Revised: ‘Death on the Med’ – taking your complaint to the BBC further
Following feedback from members to our email ‘Death on the Med – The Next Steps’; we encourage you to write back to the BBC and go through the three stages mentioned below. (Ofcom has written to members saying it is unable to hold the BBC accountable on issues of ‘accuracy and impartiality’). Continue reading
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Together we are one
Thanks to the support of thousands of people across the country and many, many more in Bradford we’ve been able to persuade the West Yorkshire Police to ban the English Defence League’s dangerous and violent march through the town. And I’ve just been told that the Home Secretary is prepared to sign it. Continue reading
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Experts demand a full Kelly inquest
Dr Richard Spertzel claimed Dr Kelly was on a ‘hitlist’ in the final years of his life. The former head of the UN Biological Section, who worked closely with Dr Kelly in Iraq in the 1990s, has written to Attorney General Dominic Grieve about the ‘mysterious circumstances’ surrounding the death. Continue reading
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“When cuts reach Brits, coalition popularity will drop”– expert
‘We now in this country face the real prospect of a double-dip recession which is a direct consequence of the huge cutbacks that in part Nick Clegg is responsible for, and as I say when these cuts really start to kick in, really start to hurt people, then we are going to have a hugely… Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1167, 18 August 2010: £4.6 MILLION CAN’T WASH TONY BLAIR’S HANDS CLEAN
IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) £4.6 MILLION CAN’T WASH TONY BLAIR’S HANDS CLEAN 2) MPs INUNDATED BY AFGHANISTAN E-LOBBY 3) BUILD NATIONAL AFGHANISTAN: TIME TO GO DEMONSTRATION 4) ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO SUPPORT STOP THE WAR 5) NEW LOCAL STOP THE WAR GROUPS 6) REALITY RADIO LAUNCHED 1) £4.6 MILLION CAN’T WASH TONY BLAIR’S… Continue reading
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Cuba Update, Tuesday 17 August 2010
Cuba Update, Tuesday 17 August 2010 1. CHOMSKY ARTICLE IN FULL 2. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGES OBAMA NOT TO EXTEND BLOCKADE LAW 3. CUBA HAS TRAINED OVER 8,000 DOCTORS FROM 54 NATIONS 4. CUBA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN JOB VACANCIES 5. MIAMI 5 VIGIL AND OTHER FORTHCOMING EVENTS … 1. CHOMSKY ARTICLE IN FULL Folowing it’s publication in… Continue reading
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Action Alert – Panorama ‘Death on the Med’ – Contact the BBC
On the 16 August, 2010, the BBC broadcast a Panorama programme entitled ‘Death on the Med’. It claimed to reveal ‘what really happened’ when Israeli commandoes boarded the Mavi Marmara on 31 May 2010. The programme was extremely biased, portraying the activists on board as violent terrorists who set out to kill Israeli soldiers. Continue reading
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United Against Paintings By Gilad Atzmon
17 August, 2010 — Gilad Atzmon – Writings Some British Jews are desperate to stop the truth about the Jewish state being spread around. The Jewish Chronicle reported today that Jewish ‘Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza being shown in schools in the North of England.’ Jewish… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 154 – 29th July 2010
29 July, 2010 — NO2ID WHERE ARE WE NOW? Parliament is in recess, so now is a good time to take stock of the coalition’s few weeks in office. Has the database state rolled back? The Identity Documents Bill – which will repeal the Identity Cards Act – is still in the Commons. Some improvements… Continue reading
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7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction
An 18-part Investigative documentary on 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction, which examines some of the questions and conspiracy theories about 7/7, the July 7th 2005 London Bombings. Continue reading
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STOP THE WAR COALITION Newsletter No.1166, 7 August 2010
7 August, 2010 — Stop the War Coalition IN THIS NEWSLETTER: 1) WHEN DAVID BECKHAM WENT TO AFGHANISTAN: WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? 2) SUPPORT THE WIKILEAKS WHISTLEBLOWERS 3) VIVA PALESTINA AID CONVOY FOR GAZA: GET INVOLVED 4) REBRANDING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ 5) PROSECUTING TONY BLAIR 6) MAKE A DONATION TO STOP THE WAR Continue reading
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Breaking the siege – six ways you can get involved in the next convoy to Gaza
With our government’s failure to end the blockade, people have been inspired to take action themselves to end the crisis, seen by the Gaza flotilla and previous land convoys. The overwhelming response to Israel’s attack on the Freedom Flotilla has forced governments to highlight this issue and call for an end to the siege. Continue reading
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Blair must be arrested! By John Pilger
Now consider the Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenceless country, of a kind the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the ‘paramount war crime’. This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the… Continue reading
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Al Quds day annual demonstration and rally, London 4 September, 2010
Saturday 4th September 2010 at 2 pm, Marble Arch, London Continue reading
