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Ken Loach Defends Galloway in Manchester - Video

Chris Edwards | 10.05.2003 22:51

Well known film director, Ken Loach, was one of several speakers defending George Galloway at a packed rally in Manchester on Friday 9th May 2003.

The rally speakers apart from Loach, and Galloway himself, included an eloquent Palestinian woman activist and John Rees of the Stop the War Coaltion.

Loach and Rees did an excellent demoliton job on the witch-hunt against Galloway while the Palestinian woman activist spoke movingly about the awful situation in Palestine and the task that need to be done to done to change this situation.

Galloway received a standing ovation at several points in the meeting.

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George Galloway speaking to packed meeting in Friends Meeting House, Manchester on 9th May 2003.

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Scott Ritter on George Galloway

11.05.2003 08:27

The charges made against Galloway are serious and they should be thoroughly investigated. Do these charges have any merit? I will continue to operate under the assumption of innocence until proven guilty. I hope the charges against George Galloway are baseless but, to be honest, I simply don't know.

But I do know a few things about George Galloway and the cause he championed with regards to Iraq. I know that he helped found the Mariam Appeal, a humanitarian organisation established in 1998 initially to raise funds on behalf of an Iraqi girl who suffered from leukaemia and who, because of economic sanctions, was unable to receive adequate medical care.

I know that Galloway helped set up the British-Iraqi friendship association. I know because he invited me to come to London and speak at the association's inaugural meeting. The message I heard him deliver that night was one of human kindness and compassion. He spoke out against the suffering of the Iraqi people under the effects of a decades-long economic embargo. I heard him decry the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. But I also heard him lambast the policies of his own country, and those of the US, which were subjecting the innocent people of Iraq to such suffering.

I know that Galloway was a leading, and highly vocal, critic of the war with Iraq. He challenged Tony Blair's policies and statements about the justification for the war, namely the allegations made by Britain and the US concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programmes and its failure to comply with its security council-mandated obligations to disarm. I know because I share Galloway's views about the unsustained nature of the British-American case against Iraq.

Now, more than ever, the British people need a voice of opposition, because it is from the ranks of the opposition that the matter of policing bad policy will be raised.

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