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Brian Haw Parliament Square anti-war vigil - Day 3000 - pics

Brian has been standing vigil and camping and campaigning for peace opposite the Houses of Parliament in Parliament Square, Westminster, London for 3000 days, since June 2, 2001.

Open letter to David Cameron about Brian Haw

The likely next Prime Minister, David Cameron, has threatened to have long term Parliament Square peace protester Brian Haw removed from his demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament. This has very serious implications for freedom of speech.

Brian Haw will shortly clock up day 3,000 in Parliament Square

On Wednesday August 19th Parliament peace protester Brian Haw will clock up 3,000 days and nights of his vigil opposite the Houses of Parlaiment. Why not come along and show solidarity?

Northwood Anti-War Vigil – weekly for three years

14-08-2009 00:41 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | World

SIX Catholic Worker Farm residents and supporters gathered outside Northwood tube station in northwest London on Thursday afternoon (13 August, 2009) for their weekly anti-war vigil, which has continued for three years.

Smash EDO Press Release -Demonstration against EDO's Complicity in Drone Attacks

Smash EDO Press Release

12/08/2009

Demonstration against EDO's Complicity in Killer Drone Attacks

For more info please call 07754135290 or e-mail:

smashedopress@riseup.net

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Open Invite to Paul Hills from Smash EDO

AN OPEN INVITATION TO SMASH EDO'S PUBLIC DEBATE: IS BREAKING THE LAW TO RESIST WAR CRIMES EVER JUSTIFIED?

For the attention of Paul Hills (Managing Director of EDO MBM), EDO MBM employees and the people of Brighton,

cc, The Argus

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Carnival Against the Arms Trade Court Case tomorrow - Please support

for more see www.smashedo.org.uk

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Time For UK To Follow Canada in Announcing Withdrawal from Afghanistan

08-08-2009 09:12 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Birmingham | World

The Canadian parliament bowed to the will of the people in 2008 and
announced a withdrawal from Afghanistan no later than 2011.
It is time for the Browne government to honor the will of the
British people and withdraw.

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Camp Ashraf solidarity hunger strikers on day 11 outside US embassy, London

07-08-2009 22:19 | Iraq | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Around ten Iranian exiles have been on hunger strike outside the US embassy in London for the past eleven days in protest at alleged brutality by Iraqi forces against Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, at least twelve of whom have been killed, 500 injured and 26 taken hostage according to the protesters.

There will be a rally outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair on Saturday, 8 August, from 7pm.

Smash EDO - Open letter to The Argus

AN OPEN INVITATION TO SMASH EDO'S PUBLIC DEBATE: IS BREAKING THE LAW TO RESIST WAR CRIMES EVER JUSTIFIED?

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Mixed Victory for Shut ITT campaigner

the latest trial relating to the Smash EDO campaign, see www.smashedo.org.uk

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Brian Haw - day 2,970 of his magnificent protest!

Here are 13 photos (copyleft) of Brian Haw's continuing presence outside the Houses of Parliament.

Anti-Torture candidate beats government ban

Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray, who blew the whistle on UK complicity in torture and is now standing as an independent candidate in the Norwich North by-election, is reporting various attempts to block him in his election campaign. He eventually won the right for distribution of an election communication in the form of a DVD, in which he describes some of the torture practices. He also states that it was known that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that we should only ever send people to die in self-defence.

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SMASH EDO: Smashing stuff coming up

Here is your sporadic Smash EDO update, with information about special noise demos and other goings on...

Iraq WMD expert 'was assassinated'

14-07-2009 12:05 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | World

Doctors alleging that Iraq weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was "assassinated" have demanded a proper inquest into the scientist's death.

Hired Hands: Part 2 - Reporting Elections In Iran And Iraq

10-07-2009 08:09 | Iraq | Other Press | Terror War | World

As discussed in Part 1,

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/433973.html media across the UK ‘spectrum’ have expressed outrage at even circumstantial evidence of Iranian political corruption.

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Pilger on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the Media, Obama’s Wars and Resisting the Empire

07-07-2009 11:16 | Analysis | Iraq | Palestine | World

Award-winning investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, John Pilger, Democracy Now for a wide-ranging conversation on on Honduras, Iran, Gaza, the media, health care, and Obama’s wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

MP3:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/democracynow/dn2009-0706-1.mp3

Hired Hands: Iran, Obama, Gaza, And MPs' Expenses

07-07-2009 09:54 | Iraq | Other Press | Palestine | World

In a recent alert, Media Lens described how the modern corporation is an inherently predatory, even psychopathic, entity. We noted that business managers are legally obliged to subordinate human and environmental welfare to profit.
(See:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/09/090615_the_guardian_climate.php)