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Sack parliament - stickers and fliers

A State of Emergency | 08.09.2006 09:21 | London

Over the past few years the UK parliament and government have led this country into war upon war, torn up age-old rights and made the division between rich and poor to grow ever wider. Despite only 22% of the electorate voting for them the Labour party has suppressed any opposition to its legislation, whilst opposition parties have continued to offer them a veil of legitimacy by engaging in weak debate rather than denouncing this one-party state.

Despite repeated mass protests parliament has ignored those it is supposed to represent and consistently sided with continuing wars and further authoritarian legislation.
We have only one option left: Sack parliament

On the 9th of October at 1pm, when parliament returns from its summer holiday we will be there to let them know enough is enough.

Stickers and fliers for the event have been distributed around the country. You will find them in social centres, independent shops and venues across the country in places such as Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Nottingham, Sheffield and Reading.

If you would like fliers and stickers for your social centre, shop, school, friendship group, touring band etc. please get in touch with us at  bringthewarhome2006@yahoo.com.

If you give us an address and how many fliers/ stickers you need we'll get them sent off to you.

See you all on the 9th of October!
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A State of Emergency meets every Tuesday at 7pm at LARC.

A State of Emergency
- e-mail: bringthewarhome2006@yahoo.com
- Homepage: http://www.sackparliament.org.uk

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Send some to Birmingham please!

08.09.2006 10:26

Post em to the Cottage Social Centre, 147 Kyrwicks Lane, Sparkbrook, Birmingham B11 1SS

one of the cottage social centre
mail e-mail: scbrum@aktivix.org
- Homepage: http://www.brumsc.org.uk


More text needs to be put on the flyers.

08.09.2006 11:14

A lot more text needs to be put on the flyers about the reasons for this action. Also it needs to be stated that this demo does not have permission as I asume it does not. I am all in favour of people taking action against the war, but people need to make sure their actions are successful and get the message across. The last few anti-capitalist type actions organised by anarchists have failed to do that. With protesters ending up penned in by police and the point of the protest being lost amongst media scare stories over the threat of violence and disruption. This demo will need to be really big to succeed. Are you sure you can mobilies several thousand people for it?
 http://www.stopwar.org.uk

spokesman for the stop the war coalition


STWC follow the vanguard.....

08.09.2006 11:47

We should all follow the advice of the Stop the War coalition due to the amount of success they have had. every time they make a demand or send a petition off to Tony Blair or have a passively patrolled procession through London the warmongers cave in to their demands. just look at all the wars the STWC have stopped in the last five years. they are so good at this that they require fewer numbers on each demo to make Blair tremble.
So i think it would be a great idea for any up-start Anarchist groups to clearly state on their literature what protesters can and can not do. maybe have some marshals who can report any spontaneous autonomous actions to the police. DO NOT take part in direct action when you can alternatively stand in Trafalgar square and listen to Chris Nineham and Lindsey German tell you that the grass is green and how they are going to send a clear message to Blair to stop his shit, which he will totally ignore.
So you Fools listen to the leaders of the STWC-the voice of reason.

NotNow


Like never before

08.09.2006 12:08

I have been around demos and activism for a long time and I can tell you there is a mood across a very wide cross section of people,a much wider section than I can remember who want to show this government the depth of outrage and the lying and warmongering
politicians are frightened of popular opinion that is massively against them
see you all there

view from the underground and overground


message to stopwar

08.09.2006 12:11

you dont you havent and you wont

dubious


Re: More text needs to be put on the flyers.

08.09.2006 12:16

The flier seems fine to me, has about as much text as:
 http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/events/documents/TTG_A4_back.pdf
and doesn't include any barefaced lies like "The march will surround the Labour party conference [which doesn't start until the next day]".

Are you the same non-spokesman for Stop The War who posted this comment?
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/08/348806.html?c=on#c154374

Are you still not a spokesman? Are you still encouraging people to go to Manchester to endorse the Labour Party with Brown as an acceptable alternative to Blairism? Why is that?

spokesman for nobody


re more text needed............stop the war spokesman

12.09.2006 00:40


Yeah what do propose should be added something along the lines of
'buy a copy of Socialist Worker and Socialist Review and join Socialist Workers party'.
you do your thing your way we'll do it our's

RED ARMY FACTION


This is Great!

16.09.2006 23:06

More confrontations and battles on Indymedia. Whilst the middle-class left of the anarchist vs SWP waste energy fighting each other, millions of people are just laughing at the irrelevance of today's activist movement.

Luvit


What then??

20.09.2006 11:15

Kindly say what happens after you sack Parliament? Having a vacuum at the top is just about the worst possible thing. Effectively what you want to happen here is what Tony Blair wanted to do in Iraq. It will have the same results.

It's crazy to say 'No more wars'. What you are suggesting would really bring about war. And when the disasters come you will be standing there just like dear old Tony, saying "Oh, but my intentions were good!"

richard spivack
mail e-mail: richspiv@yahoo.co.uk


Sacking parliment would be the best thing that ever happened

21.09.2006 01:12

Which is why i don't believe we stand a chance, still you have to hope.
I don't see how these wars could possibly be any worse, if you are right and doing so will spark off a war, it will be a war on the shores of England, the wars over seas, wars which have caused deaths in so many horrific ways we cannot even imagine, will have to stop, for starters, soldiers don't know what to do when they don't receive orders.
If (in the theoretical scenario) we succeed, we will have a once in a lifetime chance of actually bringing about a decent solutions to all our problems, a society that is self managed and is running by direct democracy, and a power structure that is decentralised, we will have many worlds within one, and a utopia to all the willing participants, which will eventually be everyone. I hope you are wrong, and this will not bring about a civil war, but there is no other alternative. our society today, even if you don't see it, is far more destructive than one in a civil war. In reality what will happen if we do get rid of the government, will be some sort of interim government, which will undoubtedly be too scared to carry on with the war and will recall the troops back.
But being a realist, i expect that nothing will actually happen, the government will carry on with it's destructive policies and we will carry on living in an authoritarian regime, they will probably be a little bit more scared but that's about it.

OsamaBinCohen
mail e-mail: OsamaBinCohen@Gmail.com


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