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By 8.30pm most people had gone home or to the pub for a well earned drink after police had pushed the remaining sit down protestors and supporters out of the road and re-opened it to traffic.

WHAT NOW?

ARROW (Active Resistance to the Roots of War) invites you to organise a die-in in your high street this Friday, 21 February 2003, at 1pm. Please wear black clothes. The suggested form of this die-in is that it doesn’t involve risking arrest. If you get up/move when the police ask you, then you shouldn’t be arrested (though there are no guarantees). The police are under an obligation to warn you before arresting you.

Handy check list of things you could do to make the die-in a success:
1) Call your friends and family and ask them to take part, and to tell their friends.
2) Make posters and leaflets, and stick them up around town.
3) Call the local paper, the local radio station and the local television station, and tell them about it.
4) Call the local police to inform them it’s happening.
5) Invite your local MP, local councillors and local religious leaders to join in.
6) Register your action on and Friday 21 February Assemble in the High Street, 1pm. Die-in, 1.20pm - lie down on the pavement/road until asked to move by the police.

Announce what you’re going to do next/when your group is going to meet next, 1.45.

There are thousands of people furious and frustrated and looking for some way to express their anger at this senseless drive to war. By organising actions, you can help turn their fury into effective political pressure.

The best of luck to you in all your work.

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Forthcoming direct action and civil disobedience against the military include:

Feb 23 Mass weapons inspection at USAF Fairford Transport is being organised from London. Coaches will be leaving Euston at 9am and cost £5/£10. Crash accommodation and training will be available on 22nd. Contact  fairfordcoach@hotmail.com or phone 07817 061183. Assemble 12:00noon on the junction of High St/Park St

TIME IS SHORT! THE WAR MAY BE LAUNCHED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS FROM USAF FAIRFORD GLOUCESTERSHIRE, HOME OF THE B2 STEALTH BOMBER. We still have a chance to Stop This War. Let's take it! Info on Fairford: www.cynatech.co.uk/gwi//index.htm

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FAIRFORD NATIONAL DEMO: 22nd MARCH 2003
R.A.F Fairford (in Gloucestershire) can now house the U.S B2 Stealth bombers. In tests the B2 has released B61 & B83 mini-nuclear weapons. The B61 is for use against deeply buried targets (like Iraqi bunkers). The B83 is a strategic free-fall nuclear bomb. These are the first of a new generation of `more usable' nuclear bombs. The U.S wishes to use British soil to house these weapons of mass destruction, placing the U.K in the frontline of the U.S war for oil. Local protest in Spain deterred the deployment of B2's there. We must do the same here. DEMONSTRATE!
Visit:  http://www.cynatech.co.uk/gwi//index.htm

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MENWITH HILL NATIONAL DEMO: 22nd MARCH 2003
FOIL THE BASE AT MENWITH HILL SPY BASE
Menwith Hill (North Yorkshire) is the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. Run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) & operating as US sovereign territory. It picks up communications from satellites covering the Middle East. It even won an award for its eavesdropping in the last Gulf War. Menwith is also a key base for the project of long-term military aggression -'Star Wars'. To 'foil the base' (disrupt the satellite signal receivers) there has to be as much foil in the air as possible. Bring foil kites, foil balloons, foil puppets, use your imagination."
Email:  mail@now-peace.org.uk WEBSITE:  http://www.now-peace.org.uk

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REMEMBER IF WAR STARTS...

 http://www.schnews.org.uk/stopwar/whenwarstarts.htm
 http://www.j-n-v.org/contingency.htm