UK Iraq Newswire Archive
Leafletters Target Barclays in Hastings
30-11-2009 22:42
Hastings Against the War leafletted their local branch of Barclays this Saturday in support of the Target Barclays day of action.actions have, so far, taken place in:
Cambridge - /en/2009/11/442521.html
Brighton - /en/2009/11/442445.html
Wrexham - /en/2009/11/442394.html
Falmouth - /en/2009/11/442538.html
Leafletters Target Barclays in Falmouth
30-11-2009 10:58
Kernow Action Now (KAN) leafletted the Falmouth branch of Barclays this Saturday in support of the Target Barclays day of action.Several cops turned up (apparently a rare occurrence in Falmouth) and cops were also posted outside Barclays' Truro branch
Read KAN's statement on the Target Barclays campaign here -
http://kernowaction.wordpress.com/ actions have, so far, taken place in:
Cambridge -
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/442521.html Brighton -
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/442445.html?c=on#c237906 Wrexham -
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/11/442394.html
Smash EDO - Brighton Target Barclays launch Demo Pics
28-11-2009 21:49
On the 28th a large demonstration was held in Brighton outside the bank's North Street branch, a letter was handed in to the branch manager, thousands of leaflets were given out and two Barclays customers, after reading the leaflet, told picketers that they would close their accounts. A Barclays spokesperson, speaking to the Brighton Argus, said “Barclays Group provides financial services to the defence sector within a specific policy framework." One can only guess that framework is to generate as much profit as possible for themselves
Target Baclays Action in Cambridge
28-11-2009 17:40
The Iraq War ‘Inquiry’: ‘Revelations’? What revelations?
27-11-2009 22:17
Press Release - Smash EDO Launches Anti-Barclays Campaign
26-11-2009 09:54
Press Release26th November 2009
Contact: Chloe Marsh or Andrew Beckett for further details
Tel: 07754135290, E mail:
smashedopress@riseup.net 15ft tank is next, say 25ft gun protesters!
16-11-2009 19:16
Following on from the recent good turn out against the arms sellers Heckler and Koch, based in Lenton, Nottingham, the activists and artists responsible for building a 25ft model gun and marching it through the streets, are anouncing their intention to build a 15ft tank and would like help to do so...The BBC’S Jeremy Paxman on Iraq - “We were hoodwinked”
06-11-2009 20:15
In an interview last week, Jeremy Paxman - leading interviewer on BBC 2’s flagship Newsnight programme - claimed that he had been “hoodwinked” by US government propaganda prior to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Paxman commented:"As far as I personally was concerned, there came a point with the presentation of the so-called evidence, with the moment when Colin Powell sat down at the UN General Assembly and unveiled what he said was cast-iron evidence of things like mobile, biological weapon facilities and the like...
"When I saw all of that, I thought, well, 'We know that Colin Powell is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man. If he believes all this to be the case, then, you know, he's seen the evidence; I haven't.’
"Now that evidence turned out to be absolutely meaningless, but we only discover that after the event. So, you know, I’m perfectly open to the accusation that we were hoodwinked. Yes, clearly we were."
(Paxman, ‘Is World Journalism in Crisis?‘, Coventry University online interview, October 28, 2009. The entire interview is available here:
http://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/2009/10/29/is-there-a-crisis-in-world-journalism-jeremy-paxman/ )
Military machine imploding
06-11-2009 14:00
WESTERN imperialism in central Asia looks closer to imploding today after two extremely serious incidents over the last few days.Missing person alert: Ahmed Abdulrahan Mustafa
05-11-2009 14:58
Appeal for help to find a vulnerable homeless man who has been missing for over 3 weeks.America's Chief Economist A Public Call to Regulate the Crimes of the Derivative
04-11-2009 10:07
Congresswoman Melissa Bean, and the committee has since
refused to post online his full testimony along with the
statements of the other panelists
25ft gun being marched to Heckler and Koch
03-11-2009 01:02
A small but dedicated group of Nottingham residents and activists have built a 25 foot willow wood rifle. It will be marched to the UK head quarters of international gun makers and sellers Heckler and Koch, Easter Park Industrial Estate, Lenton, Nottingham.Support For The Afghan Poppy Appeal Poster Defacement
31-10-2009 16:09
As the mainstream media outrage (from the likes of the Hate Mail and Torygraph) dies down, the voices of many people in the armed forces and others who support the posters new message starts to be heard.Brian Haw Arrested
30-10-2009 23:28
Target Brimar public meeting, 2nd November
28-10-2009 23:27
In the wake of a its citizens' weapons inspection and successful launchdemonstration, the Target Brimar campaign has called a public meeting at
the Friends Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester at 7.30pm on Monday 2nd
November. We want to gauge the support in Manchester for an ongoing
campaign to put pressure on this manufacturer of military components used
by Israel in Palestine, by the US and British armies in Iraq and by NATO
in Afghanistan. For more information on the campaign, see
http://www.targetbrimar.org.uk Report and 20 photos of Stop the War march and rally on Saturday 24th October
28-10-2009 11:15
Campaigners protest outside the Home Office against Iraq deportations
26-10-2009 21:32
NATO call to action - Edinburgh - 13th November
26-10-2009 14:10
SMASH NATO! * CRASH THEIR PARTY!EDINBURGH * 13TH - 17 NOVEMBER
In November the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Edinburgh. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is an attempt at legitimising the alliance with a hint of democracy. This is a front. The NATO PA does nothing but maintain NATO's role as a global military force used by the west to dominate and control. Its influence stretches from the highlands of Scotland where nature reserves are used as playgrounds for NATO's war games, to the highlands of Afghanistan where villages live in fear of NATO attack.
Troops Out of Afghanistan: Anti-war march in London - Photos!
24-10-2009 19:20
Support the Decommissioners Rally at the Foreign Office - Thursday 22nd
21-10-2009 22:31
decommissioners.co.ukmain rally 4 - 6pm
picket 12-2pm (both outside the Foreign Office (Whitehall)