Blair hit by tomato in Iraq sanction demo! more events coming
fruit_not_pies | 10.01.2001 17:52
A direct hit was scored at the opening of the City of Bristol college yesterday when blair was suddenly greeted by about 30 people protesting against the sanctions against Iraq.
Banners and shouts of 'How many Iraqi children have you killed?' were waiting as a range of fruti and veg flew towards mr blair, with one fine tomato finding its target.
Police quickly brought more officers in and used horses - two people were arrested.
Later blair apparently defended the policy of helping enforce UN sanctions against Iraq.
----Links for info and action----
Voices in the wilderness - campaign to end economic sanctions against the people of Iraq:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/
Voices UK homepage:
http://www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk/index.html
Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (good up to date resources):
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/
...TAKE ACTION!!...
Sign the petition (up until march 2001):
'Not in our names'
National Petition Against Economic Sanctions on Iraq
http://www.notinournames.org.uk/
OR... if you want to be a bit more ACTIVE...
IRAQ SANCTIONS - LONDON DEMO - JANUARY 16, 2001.
It's been agreed to hold a non-violent mass action outside the House of Commons on the 16th January - tenth anniversary of the Gulf War. There will be arrestable and non-arrestable actions - a non-arrestable assembly, and (I'm reliably informed), a potentially arrestable mass sit-down / die-in.
Gather at 1.00 p.m. outside Westminster Abbey.
If anyone has particular skills to offer on the day, again please don't hesitate to get in touch (Bristol Peace & Justice)
Input from legal observers, leafletters on the day and beforehand, photographers, musicians, artists, and a host of others, is needed. Think about making a sculpture, or a banner, and bringing that along. If you have any good ideas for speakers (we're still in the process of drawing up a shortlist), these would be most welcome, too.
In short, within the parameters of non-violent direct action, anything goes. To make it effective, we need YOU!
Participants: Bristol Peace & Justice, Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Dan-cymru, Earth First, Reclaim the Streets, "voices in the wilderness "
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Over the last ten years hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children have died as result of United Nations imposed economic sanctions. Denied adequate food, clean water and medical facilities, children succumb rapidly to malnutrition and infectious disease. In 1997 UNICEF reported that nearly a million children under five were chronically malnourished; further surveys in 1999 showed that child mortality in south / central Iraq had more than doubled since 1989. Conservative estimates put the number of excess deaths among Iraqi under-fives, since sanctions were imposed in 1990, at 227,000
Police quickly brought more officers in and used horses - two people were arrested.
Later blair apparently defended the policy of helping enforce UN sanctions against Iraq.
----Links for info and action----
Voices in the wilderness - campaign to end economic sanctions against the people of Iraq:
http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/ Voices UK homepage:
http://www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk/index.html Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq (good up to date resources):
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/ ...TAKE ACTION!!...
Sign the petition (up until march 2001):
'Not in our names'
National Petition Against Economic Sanctions on Iraq
http://www.notinournames.org.uk/ OR... if you want to be a bit more ACTIVE...
IRAQ SANCTIONS - LONDON DEMO - JANUARY 16, 2001.
It's been agreed to hold a non-violent mass action outside the House of Commons on the 16th January - tenth anniversary of the Gulf War. There will be arrestable and non-arrestable actions - a non-arrestable assembly, and (I'm reliably informed), a potentially arrestable mass sit-down / die-in.
Gather at 1.00 p.m. outside Westminster Abbey.
If anyone has particular skills to offer on the day, again please don't hesitate to get in touch (Bristol Peace & Justice)
Input from legal observers, leafletters on the day and beforehand, photographers, musicians, artists, and a host of others, is needed. Think about making a sculpture, or a banner, and bringing that along. If you have any good ideas for speakers (we're still in the process of drawing up a shortlist), these would be most welcome, too.
In short, within the parameters of non-violent direct action, anything goes. To make it effective, we need YOU!
Participants: Bristol Peace & Justice, Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Dan-cymru, Earth First, Reclaim the Streets, "voices in the wilderness "
==========================
Over the last ten years hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children have died as result of United Nations imposed economic sanctions. Denied adequate food, clean water and medical facilities, children succumb rapidly to malnutrition and infectious disease. In 1997 UNICEF reported that nearly a million children under five were chronically malnourished; further surveys in 1999 showed that child mortality in south / central Iraq had more than doubled since 1989. Conservative estimates put the number of excess deaths among Iraqi under-fives, since sanctions were imposed in 1990, at 227,000
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