STOP THE WAR COALITION/NATIONAL OFFICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
SAT MARCH 18
"Shock & Awe" Invasion
3rd Anniversary
PROTEST
(the one that covered europe in depleted uranium dust 3 days later)
Global Days of Action Protest
IN 200 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD - INCLUDING BAGHDAD AND BASRA HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PROTESTORS WILL BE DEMANDING THAT ALL FOREIGN TROOPS LEAVE IRAQ NOW, AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE BE FREE TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES HOW THEY WISH TO BE GOVERNED
In the UK tens of thousands of us will be in Parliament Square,
also to show our unequivocal opposition to any attack on Iran
Are You “Moving On” Or Are You Going All The Way On This One?
On the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair wants you to "move on". He wants you to forget the lies about weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist, to forget the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died because he and George Bush made a secret agreement to wage war on an almost defenceless country, to forget the 2,300 dead US soldiers and the many thousands more who have been seriously injured and probably mentally destabled for life, to forget the 103 British soldiers killed and the hundreds more injured and probably mentally destabled for life, to forget Abu Ghraib and the other secret prisons into which thousands of Iraqis have "disappeared" to be tortured and abused in the name of "freedom" and "democracy".
Tony Blair wants you ignore an occupation which has brought nothing to the Iraqi people except ever increasing death and destruction and which now threatens to tear the country apart in sectarian division.
To "move on", as Tony Blair insists, would allow war criminals to escape with impunity from international laws which should see them behind bars. Worse still, it would embolden them as they contemplate further wars in Iran, in Syria and who knows where else.
We will also be calling for those who have waged illegal war in Iraq to be brought to account. That is why, among the events we have planned for Parliament Square, at the start of our march will be a mass signing in support of the submission by Tony Benn and others, who wrote to the United Nations and the British attorney general to call for a tribunal into the legality of the invasion of Iraq and into breaches of international law, such as:
* The abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and other prisons;
* The use of banned weapons such as cluster bombs, depleted uranium and white phosphorous;
* The indiscriminate attacks on civilians and collective punishment;
* The failure to record the number of civilians killed in the war;
* The deliberate attacks on hospitals and ambulances;
* The expropriation of Iraq's resources.
JOIN YOUR VOICE WITH THOSE WHO WILL NOT "MOVE ON" UNTIL THE WARMONGERS ARE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND THE THREAT OF FURTHER WARS IS REMOVED.
12 NOON - BRING THE TROOPS HOME DEMONSTRATION,
ASSEMBLE, PARLIAMENT SQUARE LONDON
FOR DETAILS OF THE EVENTS IN PARLIAMENT SQUARE/ TRAFALGAR SQUARE:
STOP THE WAR COALITION, NATIONAL OFFICE, TEL: 020 7278 6694
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/line-upfor18mar.htm
FOR COACHES TO LONDON ORGANISED FOR MOST AREAS OF THE COUNTRY:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/Transporttodemo.htm
FOR DETAILS OF THE MARCH ROUTE:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/18march06route.htm
FOR DETAILS OF INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS THIS WEEKEND:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/march20/events.asp
Please also see:
Reasons to march
The occupation of Iraq is an ongoing disaster - and the first thing we have to do to help Iraqis is end it.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6857&visitID=9cdea1862b0715615ed4389b3eca74f9
March to New Orleans to Protest Iraq War
MOBILE, Ala. -- Hurricane victims and war veterans set out Tuesday on a march to New Orleans to protest the war in Iraq and what they view as a lack of relief aid for storm victims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031400812.html
"The Final Word Is Hooray!"
Remembering the Iraq War's Pollyanna pundits
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842
Ramzy Baroud: Remembering a Valiant Journalist
The ingrained memory I have of Atwar Bahjat is our constant battle over chairs in the Al-Jazeera newsroom. http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=03170600236
Washington seeks to bully UN Security Council over Iran
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/iran-m15.shtml
Bush Administration Renews "Preemptive War" Strategy
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/nsec-m17.shtml
Saddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/huss-m17.shtml
Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington's gulag
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/guan-f17.shtml
U.S. Illegality in Iraq: Where is the Limit ?
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2193&blz=1
Guantánamo Files Offer Glimpse of Pentagon’s Kangaroo Courts, by Tom Carter
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2178&blz=1
IAEA Report on Iran´s Nuclear Programme Sent to UN Security Council
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2177&blz=1
The Queen's Death Star, by Leuren Moret
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2175&blz=1
Iraqi Sectarianism: Inherited, Irreversible? asks Khaled Mamdouh
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2159&blz=1
Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, states Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2158&blz=1
Planet Earth As Weapon and Target, by Leuren Moret
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2157&blz=1
Reichstag Fire Anniversary: A Precedent ?
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2156&blz=1
Iraqi Sunnis Rebuild Destroyed Shiite Shrine, by Mazen Ghazi and Nada Omran, IOL Correspondents
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2155&blz=1
Britain: Special Branch Detain Documentary Actors and Former Guantánamo Prisoners, by Paul Bond
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2154&blz=1
It may be ignorance. It may be arrogance – but it ain’t International Law, by Paul V. Rafferty
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=438&blz=1
USEFUL LINKS
STOP THE WAR http://www.stopwar.org.uk
MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR: http://www.mfaw.org.uk
ANTIWAR: http://www.antiwar.com
The BRussells Tribunal Committee http://brusselstribunal.org
Peace, No War http://peacenowar.net/newpeace
United for Peace and Justice http://www.unitedforpeace.org
Iraq Watch http://www.IraqWatch.net
Electronic Iraq http://www.electroniciraq.net
INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
URUKNET.INFO http://www.uruknet.info
SAT MARCH 18
"Shock & Awe" Invasion
3rd Anniversary
PROTEST
(the one that covered europe in depleted uranium dust 3 days later)
Global Days of Action Protest
IN 200 CITIES AROUND THE WORLD - INCLUDING BAGHDAD AND BASRA HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PROTESTORS WILL BE DEMANDING THAT ALL FOREIGN TROOPS LEAVE IRAQ NOW, AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE BE FREE TO DECIDE FOR THEMSELVES HOW THEY WISH TO BE GOVERNED
In the UK tens of thousands of us will be in Parliament Square,
also to show our unequivocal opposition to any attack on Iran
Are You “Moving On” Or Are You Going All The Way On This One?
On the 3rd anniversary of the Iraq invasion, Tony Blair wants you to "move on". He wants you to forget the lies about weapons of mass destruction that didn’t exist, to forget the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died because he and George Bush made a secret agreement to wage war on an almost defenceless country, to forget the 2,300 dead US soldiers and the many thousands more who have been seriously injured and probably mentally destabled for life, to forget the 103 British soldiers killed and the hundreds more injured and probably mentally destabled for life, to forget Abu Ghraib and the other secret prisons into which thousands of Iraqis have "disappeared" to be tortured and abused in the name of "freedom" and "democracy".
Tony Blair wants you ignore an occupation which has brought nothing to the Iraqi people except ever increasing death and destruction and which now threatens to tear the country apart in sectarian division.
To "move on", as Tony Blair insists, would allow war criminals to escape with impunity from international laws which should see them behind bars. Worse still, it would embolden them as they contemplate further wars in Iran, in Syria and who knows where else.
We will also be calling for those who have waged illegal war in Iraq to be brought to account. That is why, among the events we have planned for Parliament Square, at the start of our march will be a mass signing in support of the submission by Tony Benn and others, who wrote to the United Nations and the British attorney general to call for a tribunal into the legality of the invasion of Iraq and into breaches of international law, such as:
* The abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and other prisons;
* The use of banned weapons such as cluster bombs, depleted uranium and white phosphorous;
* The indiscriminate attacks on civilians and collective punishment;
* The failure to record the number of civilians killed in the war;
* The deliberate attacks on hospitals and ambulances;
* The expropriation of Iraq's resources.
JOIN YOUR VOICE WITH THOSE WHO WILL NOT "MOVE ON" UNTIL THE WARMONGERS ARE HELD TO ACCOUNT AND THE THREAT OF FURTHER WARS IS REMOVED.
12 NOON - BRING THE TROOPS HOME DEMONSTRATION,
ASSEMBLE, PARLIAMENT SQUARE LONDON
FOR DETAILS OF THE EVENTS IN PARLIAMENT SQUARE/ TRAFALGAR SQUARE:
STOP THE WAR COALITION, NATIONAL OFFICE, TEL: 020 7278 6694
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/line-upfor18mar.htm
FOR COACHES TO LONDON ORGANISED FOR MOST AREAS OF THE COUNTRY:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/new/Transporttodemo.htm
FOR DETAILS OF THE MARCH ROUTE:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/18march06route.htm
FOR DETAILS OF INTERNATIONAL DEMONSTRATIONS THIS WEEKEND:
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/march20/events.asp
Please also see:
Reasons to march
The occupation of Iraq is an ongoing disaster - and the first thing we have to do to help Iraqis is end it.
http://www.globalecho.org/view_article.php?aid=6857&visitID=9cdea1862b0715615ed4389b3eca74f9
March to New Orleans to Protest Iraq War
MOBILE, Ala. -- Hurricane victims and war veterans set out Tuesday on a march to New Orleans to protest the war in Iraq and what they view as a lack of relief aid for storm victims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031400812.html
"The Final Word Is Hooray!"
Remembering the Iraq War's Pollyanna pundits
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2842
Ramzy Baroud: Remembering a Valiant Journalist
The ingrained memory I have of Atwar Bahjat is our constant battle over chairs in the Al-Jazeera newsroom. http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=03170600236
Washington seeks to bully UN Security Council over Iran
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/iran-m15.shtml
Bush Administration Renews "Preemptive War" Strategy
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/nsec-m17.shtml
Saddam Hussein turns the tables at US-run show trial
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/huss-m17.shtml
Transcripts of Guantánamo hearings: a window into Washington's gulag
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/guan-f17.shtml
U.S. Illegality in Iraq: Where is the Limit ?
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2193&blz=1
Guantánamo Files Offer Glimpse of Pentagon’s Kangaroo Courts, by Tom Carter
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2178&blz=1
IAEA Report on Iran´s Nuclear Programme Sent to UN Security Council
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2177&blz=1
The Queen's Death Star, by Leuren Moret
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2175&blz=1
Iraqi Sectarianism: Inherited, Irreversible? asks Khaled Mamdouh
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2159&blz=1
Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, states Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D.
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2158&blz=1
Planet Earth As Weapon and Target, by Leuren Moret
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout5.php&id=2157&blz=1
Reichstag Fire Anniversary: A Precedent ?
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2156&blz=1
Iraqi Sunnis Rebuild Destroyed Shiite Shrine, by Mazen Ghazi and Nada Omran, IOL Correspondents
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2155&blz=1
Britain: Special Branch Detain Documentary Actors and Former Guantánamo Prisoners, by Paul Bond
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2154&blz=1
It may be ignorance. It may be arrogance – but it ain’t International Law, by Paul V. Rafferty
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=438&blz=1
USEFUL LINKS
STOP THE WAR http://www.stopwar.org.uk
MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR: http://www.mfaw.org.uk
ANTIWAR: http://www.antiwar.com
The BRussells Tribunal Committee http://brusselstribunal.org
Peace, No War http://peacenowar.net/newpeace
United for Peace and Justice http://www.unitedforpeace.org
Iraq Watch http://www.IraqWatch.net
Electronic Iraq http://www.electroniciraq.net
INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
URUKNET.INFO http://www.uruknet.info