July 4: Independence FROM America Day Demo at Menwith Hill
for CAAB | 11.06.2013 07:34 | Anti-militarism | Technology | Terror War | Sheffield
Join the annual Independence FROM America demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill, N. Yorkshire organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB).
Speakers to include Salma Yaqoob, Andy Worthington, Martin Wainwright, Mizan the Poet. Food provided by the 1 in 12 cafe
4th July Special Event
Time: 5pm - 9pm
Place: Meet at gates of NSA Menwith Hill, near Harrogate North Yorkshire HG3 2RF
Contact: 01423 884 076 or 07949 897 904
Background
NSA Menwith Hill is the largest US intelligence gathering and surveillance base outside the US. It is secret, unaccountable and out of control of the UK government. Not only run by the National Security Agency of America, there is a contingent of GCHQ personnel present at this base, and it operates the ECHELON system. The base spies on you. Other very concerning roles are that it is involved with intelligence-led warfare eg DRONES and is crucially connected with US Missile Defense and much more. PLEASE COME and especially come from the capital city!
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Additions
Edward Snowden and Menwith Hill
11.06.2013 12:21
"The NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default... While they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting your communications to do so. Any analyst at any time can target anyone... I sitting at my desk certainly had the authorities to wire tap anyone, from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the President..."
"Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded and the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it's getting to the point you don't have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinise every decision you've ever made, every friend you've ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrongdoer."
“I can’t allow the US government to destroy privacy and basic liberties.”
Edward Snowden
Interview on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM “In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak
than Edward Snowden’s release of National Security Agency material – and that includes
the Pentagon Papers, for which I was responsible 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistle blowing
gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of what has amounted to an exclusive coup against
the American constitution...the so-called intelligence community has become the United Stasi
of America”.
Daniel Ellsberg
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CAAB in solidarity with Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden
17.06.2013 07:37
The Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) has been resisting the occupation and control of the US Visiting Forces in the UK for over 20 years. CAAB’s long term aim is to send the US Visiting Forces and their Agencies back to within their borders.
NSA Menwith Hill is the largest US intelligence gathering and surveillance base outside the US. It is secret, unaccountable and out of control of the UK government. Not only run by the National Security Agency of America, there is a contingent of GCHQ personnel present at this base, and it operates the ECHELON system. The base spies on you. Other very concerning roles are that it is involved with intelligence-led warfare eg DRONES and is crucially connected with US Missile Defense and much more.
CAAB has held a demonstration every Tuesday evening (6-8pm) outside the main entrance to Menwith Hill for the past 12 years, confronting the presence of the National Security Agency of America (NSA) on British soil. This regular presence is used to flag up, literally, matters of concern such as the persecution of Bradley Manning and now NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. There’s a dedicated Bradley Manning page on the CAAB website.
Tuesday 11 June: Solidarity with Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden at weekly demo
Lindis Percy of CAAB writes:
"At the Tuesday pm weekly demonstration at NSA Menwith Hill last week I tied an upside down US flag to the fence with the words THANK YOU BRADLEY MANNING AND EDWARD SNOWDEN."
The flag was purposely left up on the fence where it would be seen by the party of three US Visiting Forces who come to take down the US flag opposite each night. In the past, Lindis has been arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for walking across the base car park that lies between the road and the fence. However, persistence sometimes pays off and these days she goes unmolested.
Last Tuesday, one of the Ministry of Defence police officers took the flag down and came after the demonstrators with it, indicating that they had forgotten to take it with them. Lindis explained:
"I told him that we were leaving it on the fence. I asked him if he would give it to Christopher Gilmore (US Commander) – a present from CAAB. He said he would make sure he got it. The base now has several of these upside down US flags saying thank you to Bradley Manning… and now also brave, honest and principled Edward Snowden."
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