Brighton Thurs 7pm-9pm - Iraq Veteran & former U.S. anti-war prisoner speak out!
Solidarity | 30.06.2011 08:33 | Anti-militarism | Repression | South Coast
Iraq combat veteran/ former member of the S.A.S. Ben Griffin and former federal prisoner of the United States Ciaron O'Reilly will address a public meeting at the Friends Meeting House, Ship St. in Brighton Thursday June 30th. 7pm-9pm
Ben and Ciaron will be speaking against the ongoing wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, the persecution of WikiLeaks and in solidarity with the imprisoned U.S. Army intelligence officer Bradley Manning and WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Assange takes his appeal to the High Court on July 12 and 13. He faces extradition to Sweden and eventual rendition to the U.S.
O'Reilly stated, "The way I look at it is, in this country, two million people marched against this war. In doing so those who marched implicity incited Ben, myself, Bradley, Julian, Katharine Gunn, Joe Glenton, Jimmy Massey and scores of others to nonviolently resist this war! If you incite people to resist, you are obligated to show them proactive solidarity when the shit hits the fan and they are dragged before the courts, electronically tagged, chained, and jailed. My experience of the prison industrial complex is that it is it is designed to isolate and beak the reister. The only thing we have to counter this process is proactive solidarity.
"I know from my 30 years of anti-war resistance, and two years spent in custody as consequence, the significance of the smallest expression of solidarity to the prisoner.
Julian and Bradley are tagged, chained and slandered for us, we're on the streets for them! Time to speak out, act up and resist these wars! People are being killed by our weapons today, it's serious!"
Here's a solidarity youtube we put together with friends in Harringay last week.
Check it out.....2,500 hits in a week, not bad!
YOUTUBE (6 mins) 'Assange Subterranean Homesick Blues'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGb9pqcz3_Y
O'Reilly stated, "The way I look at it is, in this country, two million people marched against this war. In doing so those who marched implicity incited Ben, myself, Bradley, Julian, Katharine Gunn, Joe Glenton, Jimmy Massey and scores of others to nonviolently resist this war! If you incite people to resist, you are obligated to show them proactive solidarity when the shit hits the fan and they are dragged before the courts, electronically tagged, chained, and jailed. My experience of the prison industrial complex is that it is it is designed to isolate and beak the reister. The only thing we have to counter this process is proactive solidarity.
"I know from my 30 years of anti-war resistance, and two years spent in custody as consequence, the significance of the smallest expression of solidarity to the prisoner.
Julian and Bradley are tagged, chained and slandered for us, we're on the streets for them! Time to speak out, act up and resist these wars! People are being killed by our weapons today, it's serious!"
Here's a solidarity youtube we put together with friends in Harringay last week.
Check it out.....2,500 hits in a week, not bad!
YOUTUBE (6 mins) 'Assange Subterranean Homesick Blues'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGb9pqcz3_Y
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