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STOP THE WAR National Demonstration:London Saturday 10th January 2009 Assemble Hyde Park-PASS it ON

STOP THE WAR National Demonstration: Saturday 10th January 2009 - PASS it ON
Assemble Hyde Park: March to Israeli Embassy High St Kensington, London

Join the national demonstration: Stop the War is asking all its local groups outside of London to book coaches or arrange other transport to help make this the biggest demonstration yet seen in this country.

Mass slaughter and devastation in Gaza shows barbarity has no limits. Half of Gaza's one and a half million people are children, dozens of whom have been killed or injured. Hospitals in Gaza are overflowing with dead and wounded while facing severe shortages of essential medical supplies and spare parts.

The full horror of war crime is not being shown by the British media. Stop the War has been sent these pictures which capture what happens when the fourth most powerful military in the world unleashes its arsenal of terror on people trapped in the most densely populated area in the world. 

500 dead. Thousands injured. United States blocks UN call for carnage to stop.

This ground attack is intended to turn Gaza into killing fields. Within hours of troops entering Gaza, hospitals reported that 23 people had been killed and that twenty of them were civilians.

Demonstrations across the world call for an immediate stop to the carnage. Every country in the world bar one wants the killing and destruction to stop now. But just as it did in the Lebanon War in 2006, The United States has given the green light to Israel to intensify its barbarism.

The US is blocking all UN diplomacy for an immediate ceasefire with the tacit compliance of the British government, which calls for an immediate ceasefire while at the same time endorsing America's refusal to allow any discussion in the United Nations to achieve this end.

When Israel broke the six month ceasefire on November 4, it was the trigger for this long planned invasion, deliberately timed for the last few weeks of George Bush's presidency and a few weeks before Israeli elections, in which all the leading politicians are competing as to how many Palestinians they can kill.

Stop the War, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, British Muslim Initiative, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament are organising continual protests in the next week, culminating in a national demonstration marching to the Israeli Embassy in London on Saturday 10 January.

We urge all of our supporter to do all keep informed about our activities via out website and by subscribing to our regular newsletters. Everyone who is shocked and outraged by Israel's barbarity, and the prospect of hundreds more Palestinian civilians being killed by the fourth most powerful military in the world, should commit themselves to helping mobilise for the protests in the coming week and for making the national demonstration on Saturday 10 January the biggest yet seen in this country for the freedom of Palestine. 

The text and contents of this message has been passed on from http://www.stopwar.org.uk if you have any queries, questions, comments or further information please contact: http://www.stopwar.org.uk

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http://www.movingspacetours.com Moving Space Tours Vehicle Hire for the Music and Film Industry arrives in Leeds

Moving Space Tours open in LEEDS

Vehicle Hire for the Music and Film Industry arrives in Leeds

Moving Space Tours is pleased to announce the opening of a new branch in the North of England.

Based in central Leeds, our new depot will service Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford and all the surrounding areas. All of the vehicles on our website are available, plus we are able to deliver and collect vehicles to all these locations.

To celebrate the opening, we are offering amazing deals on our range of splitter buses for tours through January so please contact us for a quote.

Our buses are fully insured for use within the music industry, for any driver over 21 with a full license for use within the UK and EU.
It's clear there is has been a shortage of these specialist touring vehicles in the North of England. We can provide new top quality high spec vehicles to fit all budgets at prices that will not be beaten. Combine that with our excellent back up support service and you will find Moving Space second to none.

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Stop The War - Saturday 3rd January 2009 London http://www.stopwar.org.uk - bring old shoes, pass it on

here's a message from: Stirchley Stop the War stirchleystopthewar@googlemail.com

1) DEMONSTRATE - STOP THE WAR

Saturday 3rd january 2009 Assemble 12:30pm Embankment, London, WC2 Nearest tube Embankment.

Called by Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, British Muslim Initiative, CND and many other organisations.

also 2pm 

Parliament Square, London W1(nearest tube - Westminister) 

Book transport now! - Coach from Birmingham leaves 8:30 Carrs Lane. Call (+44) 07721 427690 for tickets (cost £12/£8)  If enough people confirm today then we can book more coaches. Otherwise, please get the train - Chiltern do group discount prices.

message from Tony Benn "The Israeli Government, armed and supported by President Bush, with its savage attack on the people of Gaza now represents the greatest threat to security in the Middle East and the world peace movement is mobilizing on a massive scale to defeat this aggression. I appeal to everyone who can possibly do so to attend the many demonstrations that are being held here so that the British government is left in no doubt as to the strength of opposition there is to this war"

Bring old shoes to the national demonstration - Gordon Brown, cloaking himself in Tony Blair's mantle, has joined with George Bush in stopping a unanimous call by the United Nations calling on Israel to stop bombing immediately. In the spirit of Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi, who used his shoes to protest over George Bush's war crimes, we are asking protestors to bring old shoes to the national demonstration in London on 3 January to leave at Downing Street and register our disgust at Brown's action.

Prominent politicians, writers, artists and activists support the demonstration - At a press conference on 2 January, singer Annie Lennox, human rights activist Bianca Jagger, comedian and author Alexei Sayle, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn MP, writer Tariq Ali and musician Brian Eno will be representing over 30 organisations who are supporting the Gaza national demonstration.

Keep an eye on the Stop the War coalition website for any details posted there.

2) Birmingham Stop the War Coalition Emergency Public Meeting, Monday 5th January, Committee Rooms 3 & 4, Council House, Victoria Square.  Stop the Bombing of Gaza - Justice for the Palestinians - Speakers Salma Yaqoob and others from the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and the Birmingham Ramallah Twinning Committee.


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Book transport now! - Coach from Birmingham leaves 8:30 Carrs Lane. Call (+44) 07721 427690 for tickets (cost £12/£8)  If enough people confirm today then we can book more coaches.

When Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi heaved his two shoes at the head of President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, he did something that the White House press corps should have done years ago.

Al-Zaidi listened to Bush blather that the half-decade of war he had initiated with the illegal invasion of Iraq had been “necessary for US security, Iraqi stability (sic) and world peace” and something just snapped. The television correspondent, who had been kidnapped and held for a while last year by Shiite militants, pulled off a shoe and threw it at Bush—a serious insult in Iraqi culture—and shouted “This is a farewell kiss, you dog!”  When the first shoe missed its target, he grabbed a second shoe and heaved it too, causing the president to duck a second time as al-Zaidi shouted, “This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!”

Other demonstrations in London

    * Thursday 1 January, 2 - 4pm outside Israeli Embassy

    * Friday 2 January 2 - 4 pm outside the Egyptian Embassy, 26 South Street, London, W1K 1DW.

      Call for Egypt to open the border immediately.


Demonstrations round the country

    * Glasgow

      Saturday 3 january 12 noon outside Lloyds TSB St Vincent Street then assemble for demo at Blytheswood Square 1pm.


    * Exeter 

      3 January Bedford Square from noon to 2 pm.


    * Edinburgh

      Saturday 3 January 12 noon. Foot of the mound, Princes Street.


    * Bristol

      Centre, opposite the Hippodrome, Tuesday - Friday 5.00 - 6.00 and Saturday 2pm.


    * Cardiff

      Tuesday 30 december 12 to 1pm. Outside Cardiff market / St John's church, the Hayes.

      Wednesday 31 December new year vigil. Nye bevan statue, Queen street.


    * Liverpool

      Saturday 3 January, 12 noon steps of St Lukes Church at the top of Bold Street.


    * Norwich

      Saturday 3 January, 12 noon-1pm, opposite the forum.


    * Nottingham

      Tuesday 30 December 12 noon, Market Square.


    * Preston

      4 January, Preston Flag Market, 1.30 pm.


    * Southampton

      Tuesday 30 December 12 to 2pm, West Quay entrance, High Street.


    * Portsmouth

      Saturday 3 January 11am, Guildhall Square Organised by Portsmouth Network for a Just settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict and Portsmouth Stop the War Coalition.


    * Hull

      Saturday 3 January, 11am. Queen Victoria Square.


    * Bristol

      Saturday 3 January. Meet on The Centre (opposite the Hippodrome) at 2pm.


    * Tunbridge Wells

      Saturday at 12 noon outside the royal victoria place shopping center in Tunbridge Wells town center.


    * Leeds

      Saturday 3 January March for Gaza - assemble 12.30pm for 1pm outside Leeds Art Gallery, Headrow, Leeds.


    * Manchester

      Saturday 3 January,Assemble: 12 noon All Saints Park, Oxford Road/Cavendish Road, Manchester March through city centre to Albert Square


    * Newcastle

      Sat 3 January 12noon-2pm, Grey's Monument, Newcastle


    * Swansea

      Saturday 3 January at 13.00 Castle Sqaure


    * York

      Saturday 3 January 1pm St Sampson's Square, Parliament Street. Join the Facebook event here.


    * Caernarfon

      Saturday 3 January, 11am -1pm,  Morrisons, Caernarfon.


    * Bradford

      Meet 1pm Infirmary Fields, Bradford, march and City Center rally, Saturday 3rd January


    * Sheffield

      Town Hall in Sheffield on Saturday 3rd January 12 Midday

      Called by Sheffield PSC and Sheffield STW

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Stop the war saturday 3rd january 2009 national demonstration meet at embankment london 12.30pm pass it on

Stop the war
National demonstration
Saturday 3rd January 2009
Meet 12.30pm embankment, London
Pass it on

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696 Form compels licensees holding live music events to report to police names, addresses, aliases of performers, and likely ethnicity of audience

The 696 Form compels licensees who wish to hold live music events in 21 London Boroughs to report to the police the names, addresses, aliases and telephone numbers of performers, and most worryingly, the likely ethnicity of their audience. Failure to comply could result in fines or imprisonment. We believe this places unnecessary and frankly Orwellian powers in the hands of the Metropolitan Police, an institution which does not have the best record of racial fairness. The 696 form can only serve to deter the staging of live musical events - a positive form of activity in London and all cities - stifle free expression and quite possible penalise certain genres of music and ethnic audiences. It is an intrusion too far. Pass this on.

 

The petition is here

 

more information

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