Sat 26 June protest against Army Show Room: withdraw troops from Afghanistan

SHUT DOWN THE ARMY SHOWROOM

BRING THE TROOPS HOME FROM AFGHANISTAN

PROTEST

1.30pm SATURDAY 26 JUNE

KINGSLAND SHOPPING CENTRE, KINGSLAND HIGH ST, DALSTON E8

(opposite Dalston Kingsland station)

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Ten Nato soldiers, including seven Americans, were killed on 7 June 2010, the day Afghanistan overtook Vietnam to become the longest war in US history.

The US has spent over $300 billion on the war in Afghanistan, where it currently has over 100,000 troops, at a cost of a million a year for each one.

Britain is spending £6 billion on close on 10,000 troops, who, at an escalating rate of deaths and injuries, have no other purpose than to bolster failed US war policies and to save the face of the politicians who took this country into an unjustified and unwinnable war.

Most people in Britain, according to the opinion polls, want the troops withdrawn. President Karzai's government is thoroughly corrupt. The continuing occupation only makes terrorist outrages more likely.

26 June is Armed Forces Day. We don't want any more soldiers being recruited or being sent to kill and to die. Young people should not feel forced to join up to escape rotting on the dole. Instead of cuts in public services, end the spending on the war in Afghanistan and on nuclear missiles. Put the money into education and jobs.

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Please join us at our protest outside the Army Show Room in Dalston and tell the Con Dem government to bring the troops home.

If you can help publicise the protest please contact me for leaflets.

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There will be similar protests outside army contact points in Hounslow and Bromley.

Justice Not Vengeance is organising other activities, including a peace walk between 25 June and 1 July from London to Colchester in support of soldier Joe Glenton, who is being held in military prison in Colchester for refusing to return to Afghanistan to fight in a war he longer believes in. For details of this, and other activities, go to http://unarmedforcesday.wordpress.com or ring Maya on 01424 431088.

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Gareth Jenkins
Sec. Hackney Stop The War

07764 616960

Demonstration Against Israeli brutality, Saturday

Israel’s unprecedented massacre of peace activists on the Gaza flotilla has produced an outrage around the world.



On Monday London saw a magnificent protest called at just a few hours’ notice, as did many other towns and cities across the country.



This Saturday there is another emergency demonstration, which we need to make a big as possible.



Attached to this email is a flyer. Please print or photocopy some copies and spread them around your workmates, your trade union and community groups and your streets.



Hackney Stop the War activists will be leafleting stations and shopping centres between now and Saturday, but everyone can play apart in making this the demonstration a big as possible.



GAZA FLOTILLA NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION

ASSEMBLE 1.30PM DOWNING STREET LONDON



Stop the war is also holding a conference on Islamophobia on Saturday. This was to have been an all-day event, but has now been shortened so that people can go on the demonstration.



Although only half a day now, the conference is important. The intensification of the EDL racist marches have highlighted the extent to which Muslims are demonised in our society and the Stop Islamophobia conference will bring together an impressive list of speakers to lead the discussion on how this can be countered.

Anyone who wishes to attend can still do so.

STOP ISLAMOPHOBIA CONFERENCE 9.30AM - 1.00PM

CAMDEN CENTRE LONDON WC1H 9JE

Stop the War needs your help urgently‏

STOP THE WAR COALITION
Newsletter No.1156
02 June 2010
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Tel: 020 7801 2768 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7801 2768 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Web: http://stopwar.org.uk
Twitter: http://twitter.com/STWuk

IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
1) STOP THE WAR NEEDS YOUR HELP URGENLY
2) VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOW
3) EMERGENCY FUNDS NEEDED NOW
4) A TURNING POINT FOR GAZA

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1) STOP THE WAR NEEDS YOUR HELP URGENLY

GAZA FLOTILLA PROTEST MARCH SATURDAY 5 JUNE
ASSEMBLE DOWNING STREET 1.30PM
MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY

We have only a few days to mobilise for Saturday's GAZA FLOTILLA
PROTEST MARCH and we need your help urgently.

When Stop the War organised emergency demonstrations during
Israel's Gaza onslaught in January 2009, which killed 1400
Palestinians, and in July 2006, when Israel launched full scale
war on Lebanon, the response of our supporters was phenomenal,
and we were able, within a few days, to organise two of the
largest demonstrations in recent years.

We urgently need your help now to ensure that we get the biggest
turnout possible on Saturday to reflect the widespread outrage at
Israel's heinous crimes in attacking the Gaza flotilla.

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2) VOLUNTEERS NEEDED NOW

We urgently need vounteers to help in Stop the War's national
office, which is close to London's Victoria Station. We have
numerous tasks to cover in preparing for Saturday's
demonstration. If you have any time at all this week to help,
whether it's just a few hours or more, please contact us now:
EMAIL: office@stopwar.org.uk
PHONE: 020 7801 2768 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7801 2768 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

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3) EMERGENCY FUNDS NEEDED NOW

Stop the War's finances are stretched to the limit. Funding the
demonstration and other emergency actions on top of our usual
office costs has stretched our finances to the limit.

We desperately need funding now to ensure we can meet the needs
of mobilising the largest possible turnout on Saturday. Please
make a donation of whatever sum you can afford.

Your contribution can make a big difference. Please rush your
donation to Stop the War now:
ONLINE: http://bit.ly/9seAbb
BY PHONE: 020 7801 2768 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 020 7801 2768 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
BY POST: Send a cheque payable to "Stop the War Coalition" to:
Stop the War Coalition, 231 Vauxhall Bridge Road London SW1 1EH

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4) A TURNING POINT FOR GAZA

This week could be a turning point for the people of Gaza, if our
mealy-mouthed leaders, not least the British government, are
forced by public pressure to take action against Israel, which
has been allowed for too long to terrorise Palestinians and
violate countless international laws with impunity.

Please contribute in any way you can to building this pressure,
by spreading the word about Saturday's demonstration, by
vounteering if you have the time and by rushing to us your
donation towards our campaign fund.

GAZA FLOTILLA PROTEST MARCH SATURDAY 5 JUNE
ASSEMBLE DOWNING STREET 1.30PM
MARCH TO ISRAELI EMBASSY