UK Indymedia - UK Iraq Newswire Archive

Manchester anti-arms trade activities

13-05-2010 08:58

Target Brimar are calling for solidarity with the EDO Decommissioners in Manchester. On Monday 17th May at 12.30 pm we'll be leafleting outside Barclays on Mosley Street in Manchester City Centre; please join us.

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Decommissioners trial postponed until June 7th

11-05-2010 20:41

plus upcoming Smashing events...

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Smash EDO - Target Barclays Picket 11am Saturday

07-05-2010 21:05

see www.smashedo.org.uk/target-barclays.html

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Reminder - Bad Music Demo at EDO/ITT Today 4pm

05-05-2010 11:36

see www.smashedo.org.uk

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Election posters subverted in East Oxford

04-05-2010 23:59

Various election posters were subverted in East Oxford tonight to remind people with short memories of the blood our politicians still have on their hands.. Many other posters have mysteriously disappeared.

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Shut Down The G4S Chambers

03-05-2010 19:56

G4S have recently won a "British Safety Council International Award" in relation to the Concentration Camp in Oakington. The company will be presented with the award on Friday 21 May during a black tie banquet at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

We urge workers to disrupt this spectacle.
We will be there to help destroy it.

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The Art of Looking Prime Ministerial - The 2010 UK General Election

28-04-2010 23:16

On April 15, news media broadcast the first of three live, 90-minute “prime ministerial debates” between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the leaders, respectively, of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties. By the end of the second debate on April 22, the word ‘Iraq’ had been mentioned a total of five times over the course of the three hours of discussion.

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Smash EDO Update - Support the Decommissioners and more

28-04-2010 10:11

see www.smashedo.org.uk

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US soldier in collateral murder video speaks out against war

28-04-2010 08:40

soldier who saved kids in wikiLeaks massacre video condemns war

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Tony Blair, very close to being indicted for war crimes in Malaysia

24-04-2010 18:22

While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by "Success Resources Company", former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes.

This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

Upon entering the main convention hall, Tony Blair was very close to being served with an indictment for war crimes.

While the unfolding events have been acknowledged by the Malaysian press, Tony Blair's visit to Malaysia has passed virtually unnoticed in the United Kingdom. In fact, outside of Malaysia, the issue has not received press coverage.

Deafening silence and complicity of the British media? One would expect that people in Britain would want to know what happened to Tony Blair in Kuala Lumpur.

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Manchester Class Struggle Forum, national liberation and internationalism

19-04-2010 16:48

The third Manchester Class Struggle Forum will host a discussion on national liberation and internationalism, with a lead off from the World Revolution group.

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Photos of the 7th Sharrow Lantern Carnival

11-04-2010 21:26

The 7th Sharrow Lantern Carnival was held in Sheffield on 11th April 2010, starting in Mount Pleasant Park and ending at the General Cemetery. The first one was organised to mark the first anniversary of the start of the Iraq war in 2003.

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7 million Iraqis below poverty line

11-04-2010 15:43

The Iraqi government is also going to be ending the ration system to millions of people to be inline with reforms to accomodate their loan aggreements.

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General Election Hustings: AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ & PALESTINE - WHERE DO YOU STAND?

08-04-2010 11:14

Details in brief

Date: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Time: Meeting to start 7.45 pm
Location: Friends Meeting House,12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA.

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Assassination of Reuters staff in Iraq. A US war crime.

07-04-2010 19:33

Both Reuters journalists are dead, along with at least fifteen others. The Apache crew guide in ground troops to the scene and when the child is found, the crew casually dismiss the crime. Two Reuters journalists with exclusive access to the ground through their 'insurgent' contacts, who have long been a thorn in the side of occupying forces, lay dead. The Apache crew's primary work is done. The child, and the others, are collateral damage.

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Easter in Parliament Square

06-04-2010 22:53

An account of the ongoing peace campaign in London's Parliament Square with 20 photos.

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Is Iran a Threat to Global Security? US is Waging War against the Wrong Country

05-04-2010 13:24

All of what's happening right now resonates with the developments which we've been a witness to two years before the invasion of Iraq. New York Times is exactly replaying the unpleasant scenario it had devised to convince us that the late dictator Saddam Hussein has had Weapons of Mass Destruction. History is being repeated once again and Iran is now subject to a backbreaking, multilateral psychological warfare in addition to the previously-running economic embargo. The very fact that Iran is still standing on its own feet demonstrates the powerful will and strong capability of this nation; however, what's really happening behind the scenes? What will happen if U.S. or its Middle East subordinate, Israel, attack Iran?

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Chagos Islanders Need Our Solidarity

02-04-2010 20:11

Behind yesterday's seemingly positive declaration of the Chagos Islands as a "Marine Reserve" by the UK government lies a sinister not-very- well- hidden agenda...

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Support the Decommissioners - on Trial - May 17th

24-03-2010 13:11

The EDO Decommissioners always intended to go to trial – now set for May 17th – Not as the accused but as the accusers making the case that their action was lawful because they were disarming an arms factory which is complicit in war crimes.

Postponed from last autumn, the trial of the six people charged with conspiracy to commit criminal damage at the ITT/EDO MBM offices in Brighton in January 2009 now begins on May 17th.

On 17th January 2009, as the bombs rained down on Gaza, the six defendants entered the EDO factory. They threw computers and filing cabinets out of the first floor window and took hammers to machinery used for weapons production. Their aim was to disable the war machine and to take action against those who profit from the aerial bombardment of Gaza. The offices were out of action for a month.

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Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime

23-03-2010 08:32

Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere.

The U.S. has illegally conducted four nuclear wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and twice in Iraq since 1991, calling DU "conventional" weapons when in fact they are nuclear weapons.

DU is the Trojan Horse of nuclear war – it keeps giving and keeps killing. There is no way to clean it up, and no way to turn it off because it continues to decay into other radioactive isotopes in over 20 steps.