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Help needed! No date in Cambridge

04-02-2008 16:03

Smash EDO on tour

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Smash EDO on tour

04-02-2008 15:58

Help needed! No Birmingham date yet.

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Gordon Brown Protest Telford

03-02-2008 19:49

On Friday 1st February, our local peace group from Telford , Shropshire, Wrekin Stop War, were protesting at the Telford Holiday Inn when Gordon Brown visited.

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Action alert: Condoleezza Rice in London

03-02-2008 17:41

Stop the War Coalition is calling an emergency protest on
Wednesday 6 February. We do not yet have details of Rice's
meetings with Gordon Brown but we anticipate that our protest
will be at Downing Street, the timing to be announced as soon
as her plans are known.

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Press Release: Act Against Iraq Poverty

02-02-2008 12:30

The United Nations praised the ration system as being “the world’s largest and most effective relief effort”

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Operation Desert Slaughter

01-02-2008 21:21

It is seventeen years since America and Britain embarked on their 'Final Solution' for the population of Iraq.

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New analysis ‘confirms’ 1 million+ Iraq casualties

31-01-2008 15:54

Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003.

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socpa 128 Lakenheath 8 trial

30-01-2008 19:27

A lakenheath plane with bombs dropped painted on the side
On 26th 27th and 28th of March 2008 the Lakenheath 8 finally go to trial for a socpa 128 and criminal damage charge. The L8 took action in October 2006 at USAF Lakenheath in Suffolk against the use of cluster bombs and conventional weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 8 activists, Pete, Lesley, Mell, Lesley, Richie, Margaret, Irene and Emma entered the nuclear base and locked themselves to the munitions area gates to stop the loading of weapons onto the F15 e planes. The new at the time 'socpa' laws covered the base and the 8 new that they maximum sentence was a year in prison and a £5,000 fine

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brian haw 'walk for peace' to speak at oxford union 'queen and country' debate

29-01-2008 00:31

fresh from their controversial "freedom of speech" debate, when they invited a holocaust denier and a bnp leader, those pesky students have thought up another wheeze

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Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq

28-01-2008 15:27

The Iraq Solidarity Campaign would like to congratulate the efforts of The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI), whose Baiji Branch has been providing substantial humanitarian and fuel assistance to the needy and displaced, including 600 families living in the area.

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Your legal obligation

27-01-2008 12:47

We are ALL guilty of aiding and abetting the war crime of genocide against Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Sectarian war in Iraq (by Latuff)

27-01-2008 10:25

Sectarian war in Iraq
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Complete Blockade & Roof Occupation of EDO MBM.

24-01-2008 13:03

Brighton activists prevent access to Fishersgate EDO MBM by locking on to gates and super gluing themselves to external doors. Two activists scale the roof and occupy.

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Students blockade EDO factory

24-01-2008 12:34

Yesterday morning 15 student activists from Sussex University, Brighton used a variety of tactics to completely blockade EDO MBMs factory in Fishersgate. Students d-locked and glued themselves to doors and occupied the roof in an attempt to bring the factory to a standstill and raise awareness of the products EDO produce.

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Are We Voting for Change?

23-01-2008 19:43

Do we really want change on Capitol Hill? We say we do, so why aren’t we looking for it?

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Demonizing Islam (by Latuff)

22-01-2008 14:17

Demonizing Islam
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Tony Blair War Crimes File Referred to CPS

20-01-2008 20:18

The Scotland Yard War Crimes Unit investigation into allegations against Tony Blair, Lord Goldsmith and others has been handed to the CPS.

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Oi Imperialists! Hands Off Iraqi Oil!

20-01-2008 06:44

"I'm saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil." – Alan Greenspan

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The Iraqis Don't Really Want Us

15-01-2008 11:15

Few mentioned Saddam Hussein as a cause of their problems, which the report described as an important finding, implying that "the current strife in Iraq seems to have totally eclipsed any agonies or grievances many Iraqis would have incurred from the past regime, which lasted for nearly four decades -- as opposed to the current conflict, which has lasted for five years."

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It's not torture when U.S. forces are doing it...(by Latuff)

15-01-2008 05:26

Waterboarding
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff (to be published in "Ideias" magazine, of the Sindicato dos Servidores da Justica Federal, Rio de Janeiro).