UK Indymedia - UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

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"BEAUTYFUL IRAN"+CAT STEVENS

27-02-2007 11:31

http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html

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Support to 4 NATO train blockaders on trial in Valencia (Spain)

27-02-2007 10:00

On Tuesday march 6th at 10 am four antimilitarist activists will be on
trial for a military train blockade in fall 2004. The public prosecutor
asks for a sentence of one year's imprisonment, while the activist's
lawyer pleads for acquittal. The trial has been postponed already three
times, the last two because of the absence of the witnesses (4 policemen)
for the prosecution without giving any reason.

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Trident: weapons inspectors visit corporate criminals

27-02-2007 09:59

Yesterday two groups of citizen weapons inspectors visited the offices of profiteers along the nuclear chain (from uranium mining to missiles).

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"a genocidal, suicidal nation" : Romney joins Iran's hysterical accusers

27-02-2007 08:22

Bizarre though it sounds, more and more public figures in the US, echoing Israeli officials, are accusing Iran of genocide. More accurately, of planning genocide, although past and future get all confused in the increasingly reckless rhetoric.

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The Other Hollywood Oscar Ceremony - The "Oscar for Peace" Awards

27-02-2007 06:00

At the corner of Hollywood and Vine, just blocks away from where the Hollywood Oscars were to be presented at the Kodak Theater, the "Military Families Speak Out" organization hosted an “Oscar for Peace” awards ceremony and "Bring Our Troops Home Now" peace vigil. "Military Families Speak Out" honored individuals “for their exceptional and tireless commitment to waging peace, rather than war.” The event drew thousands, and featured an 8-foot “Oscar” in military camouflage with the inscription “Bring Me Home!” The "Code Pink Police," members of the antiwar group, Code Pink Women For Peace, arrested a mock President Bush, while the "Billionaires for Bush" comedy troupe conducted a mock counter-protest.

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Video from Current Nablus Invasion - Day 1

27-02-2007 03:02

Following you'll find the links to our most recent work on the current military operation (named "Hot Winter") in Nablus, Palestine.

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Sunday Telegraph: U.S. Organizing Terrorism Against Iran

27-02-2007 01:38

As should be expected, the Sunday Telegraph, as a neocon newspaper formerly associated with Baron Black of Crossharbour, aka Conrad Black, has sugar-coated this terrorism against the Iranian people, dismissing it as “pressure” against the “Islamic regime” the neocons accuse of working feverishly on nuclear weapons, an allegation completely devoid of any evidence, that is beyond the Brothers Grimm fairy tales invented by the neocons.

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AUDIO - No Trident / Troops Out march

26-02-2007 17:50

Here are some more audio clips from last saturdays No Trident / Troops Out demo.

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Dick Cheney New 911 Oscar Plot to Justify Nuking Iran

26-02-2007 17:29

You can fool some of the people some of the time.

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DISARM DSEi 2007. One Day. Many Actions

26-02-2007 17:21

11TH SEPTEMBER 2007

ONE DAY – MANY ACTIONS

Blockade? Party? Destroy? March? Smash? Infiltrate? Invade? Picket?
Harass? Clown? Dance? Light candles? Fight? Lock on? Vigil? Disrupt?

YOU DECIDE!

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"You and I and the Next War"

26-02-2007 16:38

"WE ARE ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights.

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Update on Lakenheath 8 trial

26-02-2007 16:30

After more messing around by the prosecution, the trial of the
Lakenheath 8 has been adjourned until the 6th of March. The trial
is the result of an action last October, when the activists entered USAF Lakenheath nuclear base and chained themselves to the gates of a munitions storage area to stop the movement of cluster bombs.

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Video of Anti-War Demo - Sat 24 Feb 07

26-02-2007 13:10

A compilation of video clips shot on the Anti-War Demonstration from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to other sets of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

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Pix of Anti-War Demo - Sat 24 Feb 07 - Set 3 of 3 (The Choir)

26-02-2007 12:53

Pictures of the Choir singing for the Anti-War Demonstration around Hyde Park Corner.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

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Chomsky on Iran, Iraq, and the Rest of the World

26-02-2007 12:46

Noam Chomsky is a noted linguist, author, and foreign policy expert. On February 9, Michael Shank interviewed him on the latest developments in U.S. policy toward Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Venezuela. Along the way, Chomsky also commented on climate change, the World Social Forum, and why international relations are run like the mafia.

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Pix of Anti-War Demo - Sat 24 Feb 07 - Set 2 of 3

26-02-2007 12:44

Pictures of the Anti-War Demonstration from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

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Democrats reinforce “war on terrorism” lie

26-02-2007 12:37

In another display of true colors, the Democrats are considering legislation to limit the Bush administration’s war powers in Iraq to “fighting Al-Qaeda.”

This deception clearly demonstrates, once again, that the Democrats are politically and morally bankrupt -- and every bit as enthusiastic as the Bush administration in spreading the endless “war on terrorism” conquest to every corner of the world.

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Evidence of US coercion of IAEA members against Iran revealed

26-02-2007 12:33

Demands for an investigation into coercion of nations by the US during the vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been growing following the revelations by a former ranking official of the Bush administration acknowledging that India's votes at the IAEA in 2005 and 2006 had been "coerced."

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Pix of Anti-War Demo - Sat 24 Feb 07 - Set 1 of 3

26-02-2007 12:28

Pictures of the Anti-War Demonstration from Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

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Eisenhower. Nimitz wait around for 'accidental war'

26-02-2007 11:56

“While the [USS] Eisenhower is ostensibly assisting US operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is the looming threat of Iran that increasingly occupies its attention,” writes Damien McElroy for the UK Telegraph. “Recent tensions between America and Iran over Teheran’s attempts to develop a nuclear weapon have raised the prospect of its third regional war in a decade.”