Manchester Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Benefit night for Guatemala Peace Brigades International

Benefit collective, 06-05-2008 11:51

Are You Dancing? DISCO on Saturday 31st May at The Yard Theatre, Old Birley Street, Hulme. Free Popcorn! Great Music, beautifully decorated venue, reasonably priced drinks and all proceeds to go to Peace Brigades International - Guatemala (www.pbi-guatemala.org)
Starts @ 8.30pm and costs £3 (concession) or £4 to get in. Read more >>

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Pat pays a price for peace – again!

Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group, 30-04-2008 13:12

Peace activist, Pat Sanchez fined for protest at Faslane. Peace Group launch appeal fund. Police could not remember a 7 foot squirrel. Read more >>

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Police repression of activist film

Smash EDO, 17-04-2008 18:49

come and see the film they tried to ban Read more | 2 comments >>

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israel 'celebrates' 60 years of illegal military occupation of palestine

ruth, 12-04-2008 12:28

This year marks 60 years of the creation of the state of Israel resulting in the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Arab Palestinians and the destruction over 400 of their villages. There are a number of disgraceful events planned by Zionist groups who do not represent the majority of British Jews or Israelis. These are mainly happening in London and Manchester in next few months, ignoring the reality of the ongoing illegal military occupation of Palestine.
Read more | 2 comments >>

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Rochdale doves descend on Aldermaston

Pat Sanchez, 25-03-2008 15:01

Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group took cards signed by hundreds of supporters showing doves of peace and CND symbols to hang on the Aldermaston nuke factory fence. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group at World Against War

Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group, 17-03-2008 08:37

Rochdale and Littleborough Peace Group remembers those killed in illegal and immoral wars, 15 March 2008 Read more >>

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China Wins Gold Medal for Human Rights Abuses'

Luke, 12-12-2007 13:22

Monday 10th December- International Human Rights Day: Protests at Manchester Chinese Consulate Read more >>

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Where was Posada Carriles when Kennedy was killed?

Freelance Sniper, 22-11-2007 22:52

Robert Kennedy was investigating the CIA and the Cuban- and Italian-American mafias in relation to his brother’s assassination. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Manchester Meeting: Hands Off The People Of Iran!

Hands Off The People Of Iran, 19-11-2007 23:04

Its a public meeting and everybody is welcome to attend. Read more >>

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Harold Pinter: Free the Cuban Five...

posted by F Espinoza, 12-11-2007 14:34

British dramatist and political activist Harold Pinter, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2005, added his voice to the demand for liberation of the antiterrorist Cuban Five imprisoned in the US for more than nine years. Read more | 5 comments >>

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National Conference of US Lawyers Approve Resolution in Favor of the Cuban Five

posted by F Espinoza, 07-11-2007 15:57

The 70th Annual Conference of the National Lawyers Guild which took place from October 31 to November 4 in Washington, DC approved "Resolution Endorsing the Call for an International Investigation into the Failure of the United States Government to Address and Remedy the Denial of Justice in the Case of "The Cuban Five", and for Further Education and Related Actions". Read more | 1 comment >>

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ICBUW Launches Global Disinvestment Campaign

International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons, 06-11-2007 10:28

On November 6th 2007 ICBUW member organisations launched a global disinvestment campaign against investments by high street banks and investment companies around the world in the manufacturers of uranium weapons. Read on to find out how you can get involved. Read more >>

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Webster Tarpley's Hoax: The Kennebunkport Warning

Jenny Sparks, 04-11-2007 05:17

He's touring the UK, supposedly helping 9/11 Truth, but watch out--the man has a history of spreading disinformation....if you're planning to go to Tarpley's Guy Fawkes/911 speech read this first, and demand answers. Read more | 1 addition | 3 comments >>

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Lancaster student's anti-BAE halloween mischief

Lancaster Student, 31-10-2007 17:30

Students enter careers fair in order to protest the inclusion of arms manufacturer BAE Systems. Read more | 2 additions | 10 comments >>

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Cuba responds to Bush

posted by F Espinoza, 25-10-2007 16:27

REPLYING to three spurious initiatives for Cuba proposed by George Bush in Washington on October 24, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque set out 12 points “covering what the U.S. president should propose as aid” to the island. Read more | 5 comments >>

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Garden City Social - Peterloo Memorial benefit

Garden City Social, 23-10-2007 09:20

£4 on the door
8pm Sat 24th November 2007
Yard Theatre, Old Birley Street, nr Kim By the Sea, Hulme M15 5RF Read more >>

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Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza

Break the Siege - Free Gaza, 22-10-2007 18:00

Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge on Dec 20th to raise money for the Freegaza campaign. It is 'A Winter Festival Party' featuring Sketch (Maggie Boyle, Gary Boyle and Dave Bowie), Captain Hotknives, Clive Russell and The Bookworms (plus DJ).
Doors open at 8.30pm, £5 or £4 entry. All proceeds go to humanitarian aid. Read more | 1 comment >>

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The Cuban Five: Imprisoned for opposing Terrorism

posted by F Espinoza, 02-10-2007 13:38

The National Lawyers Guild and several legal and human rights organizations have called on the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to launch a formal investigation of the United States government’s continuing violation of human rights of five political prisoners known as the Cuban Five. Read more | 2 comments >>

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faslane ppl NEEDED

dave, 01-10-2007 19:33

blockades need ppl now- lets keep this going!!
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Aznar’s Silence...

posted by F Espinoza, 01-10-2007 12:45

During a Round Table program aired on Cuban television on April 25, 2003, I pointed out that the then Spanish President José María Aznar, an ally of the world's leader in genocides and massacres, had met with President William Clinton on April 13, 1999, at an uncertain juncture of the war in Yugoslavia, and had told him, verbatim... Read more | 1 comment >>

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