STOP THE WAR COALITION
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
T: 020 7278 6694
Web: http://www.stopwar.org.uk
LONDON RALLY: THURSDAY 8 JANUARY
WITH TONY BENN, TARIQ ALI AND GEORGE GALLOWAY MP
7.30 PM
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
EUSTON RD, LONDON NW1 2BJ
Map:
http://tinyurl.com/7r9ez5.
Nearest tube: Euston.
SPEAKERS:
Tariq Ali , Tony Benn, George Galloway MP, Lindsey German (Stop the War), Sally Hunt (UCU), Hugh Lanning, Jeremy Corbyn MP, British Muslim Initiative speaker, Palestinian speaker.
650 killed. Over 3000 injured. Nowhere in Gaza is safe as Israel bombs schools, ambulances, mosques and residential tower blocks. No electricity, half the country with no water, food very scarce, hospitals unable to cope with the consequences of Israel’s barbarity, severe shortage of
medical supplies – a London Rally calling for this massacre to stop now has been organised by Stop the War and Palestine solidarity campaign on Thursday 8 January, at 7.30 pm.
If you live in the London area come and here Tony Benn, Tariq Ali, George Galloway MP and other speakers voice their anger and outrage over Israel’s war crimes and the collective punishment of Palestinian civilians trapped in Gaza, and to discuss what we in Britain can do to help bring this carnage to an end.
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STEWARDS PLANNING MEETING
Prior to the London Rally, there will be a stewards planning meeting at 6pm in Friends Meeting House, Euston, for people who have volunteered to help us steward Saturday’s national demonstration in London. All stewards are urged to attend this planning meeting.
If you would like to help steward on Saturday, attend the stewards planning meeting or email your contact details to office@stopwar.org.uk or call 020 7278 6694.
STEWARDS PLANNING MEETING
THURSDAY 8 JANUARY 6.00 PM
FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE
EUSTON RD, LONDON NW1 2BJ
Map: http://tinyurl.com/7r9ez5. Nearest tube: Euston.
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1) THE GAZA KILLING FIELDS: DEMONSTRATE 10 JANUARY
NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: SATURDAY 10 JANUARY
STOP THE MASSACRE : ISRAEL OUT OF GAZA
ASSEMBLE 12.30PM SPEAKERS CORNER,HYDE PARK
(Nearest tube Marble Arch) Rally & speakers in Hyde park
MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY High St Kensington, London W8
Anyone with a shred of humanity who watches the video we feature below will do all they can to join the national
demonstration in London this Saturday 10 January, and will encourage everyone they know to be there too.
In the video a Norwegian doctor working in a Gaza hospital he calls "Dante's Inferno, hell", describes how Palestinians - particularly the children, who are 50 percent of the population - are dying and suffering horrific injuries for the crime of being civilians living in Gaza. "They cannot flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has them trapped in a cage," he says.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ OR HERE
http://tinyurl.com/9d572c
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1/03/2005
Super Fairy Rules the Pixies
LONDON: 3 May 2000
In the final analysis, it was all just so British.
First the genteel horticultural festivities, then the rituals of MacTrashing and CopFronting to allow the local ploughboys to let off steam, and then the timely appearance of Super Fairy, the decorated handmaiden of the ritual Spring riot, who resolves all feuds and brings peace and accomodation to the community.
That was Mayday 2000. Less a global Anarchist uprising than a rural village fete circa 1887. As in all ritual festivals, the powers of stability were reinvoked, and all parties came away with their prejudices intact.
This was a depressing day, except perhaps for one person: the superheroine in the pink tutu, who completely fulfilled her destiny on a grand scale. Whenever the 360 degree standoff in Trafalgar Square became too rumbunctious, her sequinned pink attenae would twitch to the message "This looks like a job for SuperFairy" and in a flash she would appear between the lines of blue and black. Then, with a swivel of her bellybutton and a whisk of her pink feather duster, all was peace and love.
The sinister hooded pixie hordes could no more bring themselves to roughouse A Lady than could Wilfred Hyde White. Very laudable, very British.
The lesson of Trafalgar Square 2000 was that 3000 fearless anarchists were kept in check by one scantily clad show-off. Without her they might well have broken the thin cordon which kept them illegally imprisoned for a bladder-straining four hours. This was a total humiliation and everyone knew it, especially the police.
If the battle against global corporatism is to succeed, it has to be driven by a commitment to ideals which can be shared, and which cannot be deflected by a single mother in fancy dress. Anarchism, if this was what we saw on May Day, obviously does not match up to the challenge.
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