London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

23-07-2008 07:21

Demo press release: Binyam Mohamed: 30 tomorrow!

THE LONDON GUANTÁNAMO CAMPAIGN is to hold a mock birthday party outside 10 Downing St, on Thursday the 24th of July, from 6 to 8pm for Binyam Mohamed, the last Londoner in Guantanamo Bay. Read more >>

21-07-2008 08:56

South London Film Screening Tonight: On The Verge, Smash EDO

7PM, MONDAY 21ST JULY
@ Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton Street, Walworth, London, SE17 3AE (Close to Elephant & Castle Tube - Northern Line)

Free entry / donation Read more >>

19-07-2008 14:08

Bastille Day Card - Support Liberty in Burma

On July 14th, three members of totaloutofburma.org celebrated Bastille Day at the Institute Francais in London, calling on "Liberty Equality and Fraternity" with the Burmese "liberty" movement and the heroic prisoners of conscience in Burma. A Bastille Day card with approximately 150 signatures was sent to President Nicolas Sarkozy care of the French Embassy in London, highlighting French Total Oil's continuing shameful collaboration with the brutal Burmese dictatorship and calling for liberty for Burma. Read more >>

19-07-2008 11:31 | 1 addition

Start of 6 Days for 6 Years Vigil Outside US Embassy, London

The London Guantánamo Campaign is holding a week-long continuous vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair, London, in the run up to Binyam Mohamed's 30th birthday on 24 July. Held illegally for 6 years, enough is enough. It's time for justice and the US to releasr Binyam... Read more >>

17-07-2008 20:15

Army Recruitment, The Strand...

Anti-war protesters and activists gather in the Strand, London, to hold a protest outside the British Army recruiting office not far from Trafalgar Square. Read more >>

16-07-2008 17:35

film showing of "Rendition" followed by a talk on Extraordinary Rendition

The London Guantánamo Campaign and Brent Stop The War invite you to a FREE film showing of the film "Rendition" followed by a discussion with Andy Worthington from Reprieve about the topical issue of extraordinary rendition, the CIA-sponsored and international government-backed programme of the kidnap, transfer and torture of human beings Read more >>

15-07-2008 12:11

Army Recruitment Centre Demonstration

Peace activists show their objection to the recruitment of young men and women for the war machine outside of an army careers office. Read more >>

14-07-2008 14:42 | 1 addition

Happy Birthday Binyam! actions: 6 Days for Six Year (18-24 July) & 24/7 demo

Binyam Mohamed will be 30 years old on 24 July. Unlike most other people aged 30, on that day, Binyam will have spent one out of every five years of his life in illegal American detention. Join us for a week-long vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair (18-24 July) and/or at the 24/7 demo opposite Downing Street. Read more >>

13-07-2008 20:34 | 1 addition

July 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Photos

Photos from the London protest at the BBC in White City and from protests around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice. Read more >>

13-07-2008 10:01

Former head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation speaks at the LSE (Mon 14 July)

Dr Etemad has been a member of the panel of experts on nuclear reactor shielding for IAEA and a member of board of UNESCO on educational innovation in Asia working on the international university for UNESCO. Read more >>

12-07-2008 20:06

Kilburn Total Oil Burma Protest 9th July 2008

Three protesters braved the rain on Wednesday 9th July to protest at Totalitarian Oil at Kilburn Total station, 409 Kilburn High Rd, Kilburn, NW6 7QG. For many years French Total Oil has been funding the brutal Burmese junta's oppression of the Burmese people, with hundreds of millions of dollars a year from the Yadana gas pipeline. The Burmese don't benefit from the gas exported to Thailand, instead they have suffered from forced labour and the military camps around the pipeline. The junta spends 50% of Burma's budget on the army and uses foreign currency it earns to buy weapons. Read more >>

07-07-2008 12:59

LGC & Project 2012 Independence Day Picnic Report - 4 July

To "celebrate" American Independence Day, the LGC took a break from its weekly vigil (we did that too!) and went to the park next the Embassy and held a freedom picnic and debate on what freedom, if it exists, means to us all now? Feel free to add any extra thoughts below... Read more >>

07-07-2008 11:13

'On The Verge': Smash EDO Film July 21st South London

Film Screening: ON THE VERGE: The Smash Edo Campaign
The film the cops tried to ban!!! Read more >>

07-07-2008 10:18

Welcome for new owners of DSEi

VSS, the parent company of Clarion Events, was welcomed to the world of DSEi and the arms trade last weekend. Paint and glue were vigorously applied to their central London offices. Read more >>

06-07-2008 23:19

Wimbledon Southfields Total Oil Burma Protests

On 25th June and 2nd July the totaloutofburma.org team held a protest at Southfields Total Oil Station, 262 Wimbledon Park Road, London SW19 6NL. They leafleted the pedestrians attending the Wimbledon Tennis Tournament just down the road from the station. French Total Oil funds the brutal Burma junta with 500 million dollars a year and its gas pipeline in Burma was built with slave labour (see

http://www.totaldenialfilm.com). Read more >>

01-07-2008 14:06

24/7: Happy 30th Birthday Binyam! demo

If you only attend one demonstration this year, make sure this is the one! Bring the noise with you...pots and pans, instruments, whistles...let's make some noise for Binyam and call on the government to act against torture, the death penalty and kangaroo courts. If you can't make it, send a birthday card to Gordon Brown and make his day instead... Read more >>

01-07-2008 14:01

Summer in the City - Guantánamo actions in the capital in July '08

Bored in your holidays? Visiting the capital for the summer? Then come and join at some of the many actions we've got planned this month...and take action to help free the last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay Read more >>

29-06-2008 23:36 | 4 additions

Activists Disrupt 'Salute to Israel' Parade (press release)

Autonomous actions for Palestine challenge Zionist parade Read more >>

26-06-2008 10:41

Galloway, Fake Protesters and the Daily Mail

Journo Yasmin Whittaker-Khan, writing in the Fail on Sunday last week, claimed that a man she saw inciting the crowd, yelling abuse at the police and shouting ‘pigs out’ was himself of a porcine nature, a fully serving police officer.(1) Read more >>

24-06-2008 21:19

Aung San Suu Kyi Birthday Protest

The Burmese community and Burma Campaign UK marked Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi 63rd birthday with a protest at the Burma Embassy in London. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown later met a delegation of young women from 5 of Burma’s main ethnic nationalities, Burman, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, and Chin, demonstrating the unity of the people of Burma in their struggle against dictatorship. Read more >>