Fwd: The conscience of the people speaks

This is a tad late, I know. I'm just leaving the
house.
I urge any Brits within reach of one of these demos to
attend ( don't know what's happening in the US I'm
afraid)
best
michael

— Stop the War Coalition <[email protected]>
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> To: [email protected]
> Subject: The conscience of the people speaks
> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Stop the War Coalition"
> <[email protected]>
>
> STOP THE WAR COALITION
> NEWSLETTER No. 2006/26
> 22 July 2006
> Email [email protected]
> Telephone 020 7278 6694
> Web: www.stopwar.org.uk
>
> IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
> 1) THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE
> 2) ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
> 3) HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS AND ISRAEL
>
> ************************************
> 1) THE CONSCIENCE OF THE PEOPLE
> As Israel orders the whole population of southern
> lebanon to flee their homes before a full-scale
> invasion of Lebanon, the whole world except George
> Bush and Tony Blair says Israel's war crimes must
> stop now. Virtually every government in the world is
> calling for an immediate ceasefire, with the only
> exceptions being George Bush and his slavishly
> obedient servant Tony Blair. Everyone knows who the
> Archibishop of Canterbury was talking about when he
> said, ""We really do have to ask whether some
> western governments are catching up with the
> consciences of their people."
>
> Today, 22 July 2006, that conscience of the people
> will be heard in emergency demonstrations all over
> the world. In London and other cities and towns
> across Britain, the protests calling for an end to
> Israel's crimes against humanity will say yet again
> to Tony Blair that his warmongering is not in the
> name of the British people and demand that the
> British government adds its voice to the call for an
> immediate ceasefire.
>
> Israel is sytematically destroying two countries,
> Lebanon and Palestinian Gaza. None of us can stand
> aside in silence and watch this happen. Join the
> demonstrations taking place in London today and
> across Britain (details below), when the conscience
> of the British people will speak.
>
> EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
> END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
> LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
>
> ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
> (Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are
> some tube restrictions this
> weekend)
>
> ROUTE: Whitehall Place, Trafalgar Square, Pall Mall,
> Piccadilly, Berkeley
> Street, Grosvenor Square (by US Embassy), Park Lane,
> Hyde Park.
>
> ORGANISED BY: Stop the War Coalition, Palestine
> Solidarity Campaign, Muslim
> Association of Britain, British Muslim Initiative,
> Lebanese organisations.
>
> STEWARDS NEEDED FOR LONDON DEMONSTRATION: If you
> would like to help us
> organise the demonstration, come to the stewards'
> meeting point: Embankment Tube at 10.00am
>
> EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATIONS ROUND THE COUNTRY:
> Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh,
> Exeter, Glasgow, Kirkcaldy, Manchester, Newcastle,
> Norwich, Sheffield, Southampton, York.
> FOR DETAILS GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/naz5d
>
> ************************************
> 2) ISRAEL'S CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
> Writer Dahr Jamail details the international laws
> which Israel is committing in its onslaught on
> Lebanon and Gaza, in which he concludes: "To
> initiate a war of aggression, is not only an
> international crime; it is the supreme international
> crime differing only from other war crimes in that
> it contains within itself the accumulated evil of
> the whole. This is exactly what Israel is doing in
> Lebanon,aided and abetted by the leaders of the US
> government and all those who support them.
> TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE, GO TO:
> http://tinyurl.com/h237o
>
> ************************************
> 3) HEZBOLLAH, HAMAS AND ISRAEL
> Writer Alexander Cockburn writes:
> "So here we are, 24 years after Israel did its best
> to destroy Lebanon in 1982, here it is doing it all
> over again. Since Israel can't endure the idea of
> any just settlement for Palestinians, it's the only
> thing it knows how to do. Call Lebanon a
> terror-haven and bomb it back to the stone age. Call
> Gaza a terror-haven and bomb its power plant, first
> stop on the journey back to the stone age. Bomb
> Damascus. Bomb Teheran.
>
> Of course they won't destroy Hezbollah. Every time
> they kill another Lebanese family, they multiply
> hatred of Israel and support for Hezbollah. They've
> even unified the parliament in Baghdad, which just
> voted unanimously – Sunnis and Shi'ites and Kurds
> alike – to deplore Israel's conduct and to call
> for a ceasefire.
> TO READ THIS ESSENTIAL ARTICLE GO TO:
> http://tinyurl.com/r6goc
>
> ************************************
> EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION
> END ISRAEL'S BARBARISM NOW
> LONDON: SATURDAY 22 JULY
> ASSEMBLE WHITEHALL PLACE, SW1, 12 NOON
> (Nearest tube: Embankment. Please note there are
> some tube restrictions this
> weekend)
>
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