Liverpool Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

18-08-2006 13:49 | 3 comments

Liverpool Remembers the Hunger Strikers

Saturday 2nd September 2006
Assemble 12 pm, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
Prominent speakers and Republican bands in attendance
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10-08-2006 16:34

Anti Israel protest at Liverpool V Haifa

A group of anti-war protesters made their point at the Liverpool V Maccabi Haifa Champions League match last night. Despite the Liverpool Echo's scaremongering (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2006/08/347320.html), the protesters did not attempt to 'ruin' the match, leaving that to Rafael Benitez's unadventurous tactics. Read more >>

09-08-2006 19:51 | 1 comment

Red Card For Israel

Opponents of Israel's war in Lebanon and Gaza will demonstrate before the match
between Liverpool FC and Maccabi Haifa at Anfield on Wednesday 9 August. Read more >>

08-08-2006 16:21

Tonight's Liverpool Echo article - 'Cops on Red Alert' - is whipping up controversy where there was none before, over plans by Merseyside TUC, Stop The War Coalition and Liverpool Friends of Palestine to protest at Liverpool FC's Champions League match with Israeli side Maccabi Haifa. Read more >>

08-08-2006 10:34 | 3 comments

Lebanon: Full Color Pictures of the Atrocities

In the last few weeks, an increasing number of horrible, very upsetting photos of the massacres committed by Israel have been coming out of Lebanon.

The alternative media are doing everything possible to break the censorship of images that was enforced by the Corporate and authoritarian State media which only show a sanitized war, disinfected images of material destruction.

The smuggling and widespread dissemination of images from The Realm of The Real that are coming out out of Lebanon and Gaza now make all of us uncomfortable. For those of us who do editing and publishing work, they bring up the awful worry of "is this appropriate?" Read more >>

05-08-2006 22:22 | 3 comments

Sacked Liverpool Dockers Call For Sanctions Against Israel

On behalf of Merseyside trade unionists the Sacked Liverpool
Dockworkers have been asked to circulate, coordinate and collate all
responses to this message. Read more >>

05-08-2006 22:17 | 1 addition | 9 comments

Picket/Demo at Liverpool V Maccabi Haifa - 9th August

Merseyside TUC, Liverpool TUC, Wirral TUC and Sefton TUC and the
Merseyside Coalition Against the War are supporting the Friends of
Palestine Picket / demonstration at the Liverpool versus Maccabi
Haifa football match on Wednesday 9th August at Anfield and call on
trade unionists to show Israelis that we are totally opposed to
their murderous activities in Lebanon. The football game will be
shown live on Israeli television and the key may well be to bring
banners / placards to show Israeli people exactly what the views of
trade unionists and anti war campaigners are. Read more >>

02-08-2006 06:16 | 9 comments

Liverpool vs Haifa

Liverpool FC are drawn to play Maccaba Haifa in the UEFA cup and are refusing to play in Israel even though the match has been moved to Tel Aviv. The first leg is set for Anfield on August 8 or 9 with Haifas home leg due on either August 22 or 23. Read more >>

21-07-2006 12:58 | 2 comments

Protest Israeli Aggression! Get On TV With Tiger!

MEET 12 NOON @ HOYLAKE STATION, WIRRAL

SUNDAY, 23rd JULY - BRING BANNERS. The world's media is there for the final round of the British Open golf. ALL WELCOME - WE'LL BE THERE A COUPLE OF HOURS SO YOU CAN COME LATE. Read more >>

19-07-2006 21:33 | 3 comments

Liverpool Vigil Fails To Stop War

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tonight vowed to attack Lebanon and Palestine for "as long as necessary", despite about a hundred people turning out for a vigil on St George’s Plateau in Liverpool. Read more >>

17-07-2006 12:08 | 3 comments

PALESTINE & LEBANON VIGIL IN LIVERPOOL

WEDNESDAY 19th JULY

OUTSIDE ST GEORGES HALL AT 6pm Read more >>

12-07-2006 09:49 | 4 additions | 4 comments

National Demonstration - 'No Trident Replacement,' 'Don't Attack Iran'

23 September, Manchester: CND and the Stop the War Coalition are holding a national “No Trident Replacement, Don’t Attack Iran” demonstration on the eve of the Labour Party conference. Please join us to say NO to another war of aggression in the Middle East.

Saturday 23 September 1pm
Albert Square, Manchester Read more >>

11-07-2006 14:53

No Pasaran! - Commemorating the Spanish Revolution

Liverpool Social Forum presents a night of film and talk commemorating the Spanish Revolution and its heroic struggle for equality and freedom, against fascism and militarism. Read more >>

09-07-2006 15:45 | 2 comments

School Students Picnic for Peace!

On Saturday 8th July, 10 school students from around Liverpool met in a city center park, to picnic for peace! The picnic, which was organised by newly set-up Liverpool School Students Against War (SSAW), began at 1pm and was based around the slogan "Hands up for Peace". Read more >>

07-07-2006 12:39

Patients Dying To Balance Books in Southport and Ormskirk

83 people will be sacked and many unnamed patients will die, because Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust have been ordered to claw back fourteen million pounds over two years. Read more >>

03-07-2006 15:13

Liverpool School Students Against War hold Picnic

Liverpool School Students Against War are holding a peace picnic in the Peace Garden (behind St George's Hall and opposite the World Museum) on Saturday 8th July at 1pm. Read more >>

28-06-2006 09:04

Mersey Firefighters to Fight Service Cuts

Merseyside firefighters could be forced into strike action to save four fire engines for the region. Read more >>

21-06-2006 15:18 | 1 addition

Ken Loach supports Irish Ploughshares Activists Awaiting Third Trial in Dublin

24-05-2006 16:46

First Do No Harm: Doctor Refuses To Fund Death

A Liverpool doctor held a protest in the city's Derby Square yesterday. to show why she would rather break the law than fund Blair's adventure in Iraq. Read more >>

17-05-2006 18:01

Manchester Sept 2006 - Venue for new labour's national conference and protests

Protests are being called around the Labour Party annual conference, which this year is moving to Manchester in September. Read more >>