SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT – PUBLIC MEETING - FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11TH, 7.30PM

Bristol Stop The War Coalition and Bristol Palestine Solidarity Campaign have organised this meeting to give you a chance to hear people with first hand knowledge of the uprising and its implications for the Middle East and the 'war on terror'. All welcome.

'SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF EGYPT - For Peace & Freedom in the Middle East'

Speakers:

John Rees - (Stop The War Coalition) eyewitness to the uprising
Monica Jones - Campaigner for peace with justice in Palestine - has been living, working in and visiting Egypt for the past 38 years.
Yasser Alasady – Bristol based, Egyptian socialist

Date:  Friday 11th February
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Malcolm X Centre, 141 City Road, St Pauls, Bristol, BS2 8YH
Map: http://streetmap.co.uk/postcode/bs28yh  

A flyer can be downloaded from http://bristol.indymedia.org/attachments//703243_photo_1.pdf

Printed flyers are available. Please email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com if you want any to distribute.

As this is written the final outcome of the Egyptian uprising remains unclear. Tens of thousands of brave protestors continue to demand Mubarak's resignation and real change in the country. The regime, backed by the US government, are playing for time, hoping to give up the minimum of power. What is clear is that whatever the outcome of these momentous events, nothing can be the same again – in Egypt or throughout the Middle East. The worldwide US 'war in terror' strategy has been totally undermined by the actions of the people of Egypt.

Egypt has been a cornerstone of the US "war on terror" and America's strategy for dominating the Middle East and denying justice to the Palestinians. Not for nothing is Egypt second only to Israel in the amount of US aid it receives, including $1.3 billion a year for the security forces alone--the same forces who have killed dozens of protesters in the last few days and injured thousands more. Under President Mubarak Egypt has been a US client state for decades. If his tyranny is overthrown the implications are momentous. Not just in the Middle East but even further afield, including the theatres of war in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq.

One of the justifications for the invasion of Iraq was that it was the only way to get rid of a dictator. The Egyptian people this week, following the Tunisians earlier in the month, have shown they have their own ways. Not only have they risen in opposition to their corrupt rulers but they are also taking on the US and British governments who backed those rulers for so long.

Read Noam Chomsky on the uprising at http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2248/27/

For more information email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com