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Wrexham: Solidarity with Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

17-05-2013 10:37

Today, 17 May, is the 100th day of the current Guantánamo hunger strike, with most of the 166 remaining prisoners now refusing food, including British resident Shaker Aamer. Like most of the others, he has not been charged with any crime and has been cleared for release, but with no prospect of actually being freed. Aamer has been held at Guantánamo for 11 years and joined the hunger strike in March. Over 30 prisoners are now being brutally force fed. Some are close to death. A global emergency three days of action has been called.

http://londonguantanamocampaign.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/what-are-you-doing-on-17-19-may-global.html

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Press release: On International Conscientious Objectors' Day, Israeli CO in pris

14-05-2013 11:39

15th May is International Conscientious Objectors day. Around the world, campaigners will be remembering the generations who refused to go to war, and raising awareness of the many who continue to be persecuted and imprisoned for refusing to kill.

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Campaigners disrupt UK Weapons Production

07-05-2013 14:24

Peace campaigners disrupted a nuclear weapons production facility at Burghfield, near Reading this morning, as they blockaded a gate for 5 hours on Tuesday 7th May 2013. The action is part of an ongoing campaign to Scrap Trident and end investment in weapons of mass destruction.

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Out on London streets for Bradley Manning thru May lead up to June trial

07-05-2013 12:39

Out on London streets for Bradley Manning thru May lead up to June trial

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Ground the Drones Week of Action 2013

05-05-2013 21:51

This year's annual Week of Action against drone warfare, called by the UK Drone Campaign Network (www.dronecampaignnetwork.org.uk) will be taking place 5 - 12 October 2013. Please put these dates in your diary now, and help spread the word.

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Closing Guantanamo—Why it’s Symbolically, Spiritually and Materially Important.

05-05-2013 20:41

President Barack Obama has made a clear and convincing case for closing Guantanamo! Mostly the same reasons finally articulate were just as true when he initially took office. Closing the stigma of war, crime and national shame has always been a high agenda item for many Americans. It is now the watermark battle ground that could begin to show who or what really runs this country. But think of the mindless excuses from war hawks (including complicity by the mainstream media) to try to stop any transparency about Guantanamo prisoners. But there is simply no way President Obama can close this base on his own without major and active U.S. citizen and world support. How can Congress possibly stand in the way of the reasons President Obama announced for closing the Bush Legacy? Where is the Free Speech movement, where are the campus protests at Madison and Kent State Ohio?

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Sharing information about Bradley Manning at Chester May Day Fair

04-05-2013 21:14

I went along to the May Day fair in Chester today where local campaign groups such as CND, Palestine Solidarity, Cuba Solidarity, Shrewsbury 24 Pickets, various benefits campaigns and others had a presence, along with the unions and a few political parties. Having put up a Free Bradley Manning banner, I handed out 100+ flyers about 1 June International Day of Solidarity Action and made a point of speaking to at least one person on every stall to ask them to circulate information about Bradley Manning via their networks.

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1 June: US Embassy Demo for Bradley Manning. Download flyers.

02-05-2013 16:24

PLEASE DOWNLOAD, PRINT AND SHARE THESE FLYERS

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Visit Faslane Peace Camp

30-04-2013 09:54

A brand new 10 minute film from Camcorder Guerrillas.

A call to support the longest running peace camp in the world.

Available now on vimeo

https://vimeo.com/65068433

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Sussex Police to deploy armoured vechicles in March For England operation

21-04-2013 00:12

Armoured cars spotted in Brighton in advance of March For England.

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Tomorrow: emergency demo in Solidarity with Guantánamo Hunger Strikers

17-04-2013 09:22

[Description]

The London Guantánamo Campaign invites you to an emergency demonstration

outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London, W1A 1AE
(nearest underground: Bond Street/Marble Arch)

on Thursday 18 April
at 6-8pm
open mic and banners - feel free to bring your own

in support of the Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
now in their third month of protest at
11 years of torture, abuse and arbitrary detention

The current hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay, now in its 11th week, turned nasty at the weekend, when new orders were issued to separate prisoners, resulting in an invasion of their cells and plastic bullets being fired at prisoners allegedly putting up resistance, in spite of being weakened after 11 weeks without food. Their lawyers report that some have lost over 30lb in weight in that time and the US Defense Department states that at least 13 are being force fed. Nearly all the prisoners are on hunger strike. Most have been held without charge or trial for over 11 years with little prospect of release.

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Boston/Iraq bombings.

15-04-2013 22:27

The US reporting by the BBC is wall to wall, live and full to brimming with close up shots of injuries, endless shots of the injured accompanied with numerous interviews with security consultants keen to engineer the terrorist agenda. The same is true of Sky, RT, al-Jazeera and print and other TV media. There is no coverage at all of the situation in Iraq bar a few lazy, innacurate and badly written print reports on a few newspaper websites.

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Possible police raids ahead of thatchers funeral over the next 48hrs

15-04-2013 18:10

From the London Evening Standard:
"Known troublemakers are set to be held in dawn raids by police ahead of Baroness Thatcher’s funeral on Wednesday. The activists will be rounded up as part of a huge security operation involving more than 4,000 officers."

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Can spy cases be investigated objectively in Finland?

15-04-2013 15:50

This follow-up article may explain how influential Russia is in Finland, how people in different bureau may support Russia by making blocking leaks to them, and how some people on government posts are breaking laws either accidentally or on purpose. On the other hand, has this been proofed or ran research on, as Finnish Police and The Guardian of The Law is in charge of such investigations instead of an independent bureau? When found facts are combined to other indicators like spying for Russia, carefully twisted political statements told in mass media for manipulating purposes and systematically made blocking, one may ask who is running the State?

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us-run-torture-prison-in-iraq

04-04-2013 11:11

US-Foltergefängnis-Irak ...... Camp Nama: Neue Details des von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika betriebenen Foltergefängnisses im Irak ......... The Guardian hat einen Bericht veröffentlicht, der auf neuen Interviews mit britischen Soldaten beruht, die Folter und Misshandlung irakischer Gefangener in dem von den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika betriebenen Gefängnis Camp Nama nach dem Einmarsch im Jahr 2003 beobachtet haben.

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Activists head to Swedish embassy to demand guarantee of no further extradition

23-03-2013 09:48

Activists head to Swedish embassy to demand guarantee of no further extradition of Assange to U.S.

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Anti-war protest brought chaos to Hereford – 20th March 2003

20-03-2013 20:09

10 years on from the invasion of Iraq we take a small look at the protests that happened in Hereford to oppose the war...

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Iraq, ten years on from an unprovoked assault.

20-03-2013 19:22

On March 17th 20031, the 43rd President of the United States; George W Bush, issued a proclamation broadcast to the domestic population of the United States. In it, he ordered the head of state of Iraq, a foreign sovereign nation in south-west Asia, to leave his position as head of state and hand over control of the country to the United States military.

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Dissident Island Radio - Iraq War Panel Discussion - Friday 15 March 2013

18-03-2013 20:43

10 years after the start of one of the most contested wars in modern history, dissident island radio assembles a panel of seasoned anti-war activists who have been active in opposing the Iraq war.

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Anniversary of innocent Kurdish chemical bomb victims

16-03-2013 13:52

The attack killed more than 5,000 people, and injured around 7,000 to 10,000 more, most of them civilians;
also
During this Attack more than 100 communards of Kurdish- Left Group [ Komala ] got trapped and killed by Iran’s regime.