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Stop NATO Cymru Week of Action / Wythnos o Weithredu Stop NATO

31-07-2014 18:04 | NATO 2014 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Wales | World

A week of action against the NATO summit. / Wythos o weithredu yn erbyn Uwchgynhadledd NATO.

This year NATO will have their next summit at Celtic Manor Resort, in Newport, south Wales. In early September 2014, “world leaders” – all directly responsible for untold death, illegal torture flights, and wars fought purely to protect Western business interests and resource supply routes – will gather on the edge of this historic Welsh city. Many people from Newport, Cardiff, Bristol and beyond, will oppose the summit and use a diversity of tactics against it. We, an anti-capitalist, anti-militarist network in South Wales, plan to facilitate mobilisations and provide space for workshops, skill-shares and social events. We are organising without leaders as we do not agree with bosses or bombs.

For timetable, see the full article.

On the newswire: No Borders/Stop NATO day of action | Round up of Week of Action events | Stop NATO action against securitisation & policing | AFIACH benefit compilation | NATO CopWatch | Day of Action Against Militarism | 16-17 Aug, National Convergence, Blackpool | Police Harassment in Merthyr

Other links: Stop Nato Cymru | Anarchist Action Network

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Newport Rising: Festival of Radical Change

28-05-2014 10:53 | NATO 2014 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Wales | World

26 May - 1 June, Newport.

Organised by Anarchist Action Network, Stop NATO Cymru and South Wales Anarchists, the festival runs all week at 95-96 Commercial Street, Newport NP20 1LU. Sharing ideas and skills, celebrating resistance & organising to win. All welcome. Workshops and skill shares all week, free cafe all day and free meal every evening.

The NATO Summit comes to Newport at the beginning of September. Come along this week and prepare for the Stop NATO week of action 30 August - 5 September and take part in some of the many talks, sessions and workshops. Something for everyone! All welcome (except cops and mainstream journalists, who will be asked to stay outside). The venue is an alcohol & drug free space.

If you can only manage one day and want to get clued up on NATO and what's planned for August & September, come along on Sunday:
Sunday 1 June. 4pm: Talk - Resisting the NATO Summit. 6.30pm: Meeting to build resistance against the NATO Summit.

On the newswire: Protest & Street Theatre | Banner drops | Photos from Newport Rising | Anarchists Shut Cardiff Barclays | Anarchist Travelling Circus Presents Newport Rising | Protest the NATO Summit | Antimilitarists Block NATO Conference | NATO Uncut Call-out | Stop NATO Cymru Statement

Other links: Stop Nato Cymru | anarchistaction.net | No Nato Newport | The Long March on Newport

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Gaza solidarity

22-11-2012 11:34 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Birmingham | London | South Coast | Wales | World

Israel launched a new offensive on the people of Gaza last week which claimed the lives of 162 Palestinians. Four Israeli civilians and one soldier have also died as a result of retaliatory rocket attacks.

As of 20th November 23% of Palestinian casualties were children. The youngest victim of the recent Israeli aggression is 11-month-old Omar Al Mashharrawi.

Hundreds of solidarity demonstrations have been held globally and a national demonstration is planned in London on Saturday 24th November. On Friday 16th November a demonstration was held in Birmingham and another is planned for Thursday 22nd outside the BBC offices to protest biased reporting. In Brighton on Saturday 17th November activists locked on to the Ecostream store, a shop owned by an Israeli company that has its main manufacturing facility in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Adumim. Later on a hundred strong crowd marched to the store and held a noisy demonstration outside the shop. On Monday 19th a phone and twitter blockade of the company was held.

The same day in Wrexham activists picketed Barclays Bank in protest at Barclays investments in companies supplying weapons to Israel.

On Tuesday 20th a group of solidarity activists occupied G4S headquarters over the company's contracts with the Israeli prison service as well as providing equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints and maintaining contracts with businesses working in Israel's settlements.

The 'Don't Dance with Israeli Apartheid' campaign held demonstrations against London performances of the Israeli state sponsored Batsheva dance troupe at Sadlers Wells on the 19th-21st November as part of a coordinated international campaign. There were also protests both inside and outside of the Birmingham performances at the Hippodrome on the 14-15th November coinciding with the start of the latest Gaza massacre.

Palestinians in the West Bank have also been demonstrating in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Gaza, only to be met with typical Israeli oppression. On Saturday, 31-year-old Rushdi Tamimi was shot by an IDF soldier at a protest in the village of Nabi Saleh. He died of his wounds in hospital on Monday around the time news surfaced that Hamdi Mohammad Jawwad Al-Falah, 22, was killed after being shot four times during a demonstration in the Bir al-Mahjar neighborhood in western Hebron. A baby also died in hospital on Monday after an Israeli tear gas canister landed in his bedroom in Qalandia refugee camp.

A ceasefire was reached on Wednesday 21st of November. However, the conflict is likely to continue if Israel does not end its siege of Gaza and attempts to control the Gazan economy. The need for solidarity with the people of Palestine struggling against Israeli militarism, apartheid and occupation has never been greater.

Upcoming events: Thursday 22nd November - Gaza solidarity demo in Brighton at the Old Steine at 5pm and Die In on the BBC Steps at the Mailbox in Birmingham 6pm-7pm| 23rd/24th November - Don't Dance with Israeli apartheid demos in Plymouth| Hebden Bridge Gaza solidarity demo - meet at the Central Intersection at 5pm| 24th November - Mass Gaza Solidarity demo in London| Sunday 25th - Demo at Ecostream, Western Rd, Brighton, 1-3pm

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WISE Up for Bradley Manning. Call-out for solidarity

27-04-2011 10:22 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | Wales

This feature summarises Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English (WISE) solidarity efforts for Bradley Manning to date and is a call-out for anti-war activists and all those who believe in civil liberties and freedom of expression to take up Manning's cause and build a solidarity movement that can't be ignored.

Accused WikiLeaks whistleblower and US army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning has been held for almost a year since being arrested in Iraq after allegedly releasing confidential documents and video footage to WikiLeaks, including the Collateral Murder video, which shows unarmed civilians including two Reuters journalists being killed in an unprovoked US Apache helicopter attack in Iraq. The charges against him now include aiding the enemy which carries a possible death sentence. He was held at Quantico Marine Brig for months under conditions of torture, apparently in a so far failed effort by the US authorities to get him to deliver Julian Assange who could then be extradited to the US. Under such sustained ill treatment, there have been serious concerns for Manning's mental and physical health. Mid-April, after months of public outcry over his torture, he was moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas with the authorities claiming improved conditions of detention, since when Barack Obama has seen fit to declare him guilty 1 | 2. Why bother waiting for the show trial?

Read full article for background, analysis and all previous newswire links.

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Image The Blair Bridge Project (& solidarity with Manning & Assange)
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Image Arms fair faces lively protests
02-04-2016 14:01 | 4 comments

Image Armed Forces Day North Wales: Report & Pics
21-06-2015 13:59 | 1 comment

Image Report & Pics: Anzac Day in Wales - Remembering a Pioneer for Peace
28-04-2015 19:28 | 3 comments

Image Event in Llangollen to remember lifelong peace activist Lib Rowlands-Hughes on centenary of Gallipoli landings (Anzac Day)
21-04-2015 12:49

Image They won! Anti-Militarist Court Solidarity
16-01-2015 15:08 | 1 comment

Image 23/24 January: 2nd Manning Truthfest in west Wales
09-01-2015 21:24

Text Door Smashed by UKBF Raid-Soli Fund
26-12-2014 20:29

Image Chelsea Manning demo US Embassy, London
18-12-2014 21:25

Image Not guilty verdict for Barclays Newport protestors
17-11-2014 00:13 | 1 comment

Text On trial: Anti-Nato protesters who demanded Barclays divest from the arms trade
10-11-2014 10:17 | 1 comment

Text Death Drones are Arriving in Llanbedr - Protest
30-10-2014 10:14 | 1 comment

Image Opposing the DPRTE arms fair in Cardiff
14-10-2014 23:30

Image A month of solidarity with Chelsea Manning (Part 2)
09-10-2014 20:18 | 1 comment

Image Wrexham: Protest outside MP's office in advance of Iraq vote
26-09-2014 10:08 | 2 comments

Image Wrexham: Join us today to protest British involvement in war on Isis
25-09-2014 07:37

Text Callout to Demonstrate against 2014 DPRTE Arms Fair.
24-09-2014 15:04

Image A month of solidarity with Chelsea Manning (Part 1)
20-09-2014 17:00 | 1 comment

Image 21 & 22 September: Two Days for World Peace in Wrexham
17-09-2014 22:19

Image More photos from Barclays occupation in Newport during NATO summit
06-09-2014 11:53 | 2 comments

Text Barclays Bank in Newport occupied in solidarity with Gaza
05-09-2014 16:08 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Image NATO summit: More photos from Newport march on Celtic Manor
05-09-2014 09:07 | 1 comment

Image No to NATO, march to Celtic Manor. Newport, Wales. PICTURES.
05-09-2014 01:26 | 1 comment

Image NATO & arms companies: Chalking the connections in Newport
04-09-2014 17:15 | 1 comment

Text As well as the Celtic Manor here are some other parts of NATO's militarised netw
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Image Court Solidarity for Supporter of the Palestinian People
22-08-2014 15:05

Image Stop NATO Cymru launch #NatoCopWatch campaign against police harassment
19-08-2014 11:31

Image Chelsea Manning, NATO & the Long March on Newport
16-08-2014 21:43

Image Wrexham: Remembering Nagasaki & protesting Gaza slaughter
09-08-2014 23:40

Image Updated flyer to use at Barclays Banks everywhere
07-08-2014 21:54

Image Day of Action Against Millitarism / Diwrnod o Weithredu yn erbyn Militariaeth
31-07-2014 17:44 | 1 comment

Text Stop NATO Cymru Day of Action against Militarism
27-07-2014 12:42

Image Police harassment in Merthyr
21-07-2014 12:29 | 1 comment

Image Wrexham: Naming the Gaza Dead at Barclays Bank
19-07-2014 22:32 | 2 additions

Image Wrexham: Standing in solidarity with Gaza & protesting Barclays Bank
18-07-2014 08:00 | 2 comments

Text Stop NATO Cymru and Anarchist Action Network National Convergence
07-07-2014 11:12

Image R.I.P. Gerry Conlon. Just released - video of Gerry speaking in Dublin at event for Chelsea Manning
23-06-2014 21:30 | 1 addition

Image Anti-war activists maintain a 'peace presence' at Armed Forces Day in Wrexham
22-06-2014 18:49 | 2 additions | 3 comments

Image Drone Protesters enter Llanbedr Airfield
13-06-2014 06:53 | 2 additions | 3 comments

Image Open Letter to Wrexham Council about Armed Forces Day
09-06-2014 18:57 | 7 additions | 5 comments

Image Banner drop in Newport today against EADS
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Image 26 May - 1 June: Newport Rising: Come & prepare for NATO Summit in Sept
19-05-2014 08:05 | 1 addition | 9 comments

Image World War I, a lost generation and conscientious objection
14-05-2014 22:12

Image Anarchists shut down Barclays in Cardiff
04-05-2014 12:49 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Text Safiad Casnewydd
12-04-2014 10:30

Text The Anarchist Travelling Circus Presents: Newport Rising
10-04-2014 08:30

Text Protest the NATO Summit / Protest Uwchgynhadledd NATO
06-04-2014 15:08

Image Day of Protest against ATOS & DWP. Report from Wrexham
01-04-2014 12:33 | 3 comments

Text Anti-militarist activists blockade NATO conference
17-03-2014 19:50

Image Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning, jailed for 35 yrs, receives a family visit to prison + the Sam Adams Award
24-02-2014 09:14

Text Anarchist Action Network / Stop NATO Cymru Meeting - 22nd-23rd Feb
28-01-2014 15:37

Text Datganiad Stop NATO Cymru (Statment in Welsh)
21-01-2014 12:11 | 1 comment

Image Stop NATO Cymru Statment
20-01-2014 17:40 | 1 comment

Text No NATO Newport planning meeting
20-01-2014 11:34 | 9 comments

Image Phone Blockade about to start - help stop deportation of Emily Mei Yeh
17-01-2014 09:39

Text Urgent - Please contact British Airways to stop Osama's forced removal to Libya.
10-01-2014 23:49

Text Stop G8 network meeting - Cardiff 11/12th January 2014
10-01-2014 00:28 | 1 comment

Image Irish Artists Create Welsh Festival Honouring Whistleblower Chelsea Manning
09-01-2014 17:14 | 1 comment

Image Invitation to The Manning Truthfest in Haverfordwest (and Fishguard) 10-11 Jan
04-01-2014 22:07

Image On Streets of Dublin: Manning-Assange-Snowden
04-12-2013 11:02

Image Photo report: Private Manning's Family in Dublin
01-12-2013 09:19

Image Solidarity with Assange and Manning as Australia finally takes on the US and wins hands down!
18-11-2013 00:26 | 2 comments

Image Weekend of Solidarity with Chelsea Manning's Family - the good news!
06-11-2013 08:09

Image Sat 2 Nov in Liverpool & Sun 3 Nov in Wrexham: Solidarity gigs/events for US prisoner of conscience Private Manning
22-10-2013 10:48 | 2 comments

Image 8 October: 'FREE MANNING' Bristol banner drop case comes to court
28-09-2013 10:28 | 5 additions | 2 comments

Image Wrexham: Report and photos from Peace Day events 2013
25-09-2013 22:05 | 1 addition

Image One Town, Many Events for World Peace Day in Wrexham
08-09-2013 21:39

Image Donations and fundraising needed to support Chelsea Manning’s Family!
02-09-2013 22:14

Image Mon 9 September: Protest the drones at Aberporth, west Wales
02-09-2013 12:03

Image Wrexham protests re. threatened military action in Syria
30-08-2013 18:54 | 1 comment

Image Bradley Manning Verdict: With friends like Ann Clwyd...
31-07-2013 13:22 | 2 comments

Image Support for Bradley Manning in Wrexham. Support needed everywhere Sat 27 July.
11-07-2013 21:48 | 1 comment

Image Peace Education in Wrexham Schools: This week, Palestine
28-06-2013 08:49 | 1 addition

Image 13- 20 July: Exhibition of Children's Art from Gaza moves to Oswestry
21-06-2013 08:23

Image UNITED WE STAND! "Hands off Syria / Iran "
06-06-2013 12:09

Image Bradley Manning solidarity in south west Wales as trial begins
04-06-2013 19:09

Image Solidarity with Bradley Manning in Bristol and Cardiff (round-up)
02-06-2013 18:53

Image Free Bradley Manning! Free Bradley Manning's banners! (Welcome to Bristol)
31-05-2013 17:22 | 2 comments

Image 1 June International Day of Action for Bradley Manning: Join Cor Cochion in Cardiff
26-05-2013 07:01

Image Wrexham: Solidarity with Guantánamo Hunger Strikers
17-05-2013 10:37 | 2 comments

Image Wrexham: Exhibition of Children's Art from Gaza
30-04-2013 19:55

Image Wrexham Waves Goodbye to Thatcher
17-04-2013 19:08

Image Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Solidarity in Wrexham
15-04-2013 16:49

Image Wrexham 23 Feb:Stand with Bradley Manning - held 1000 days without trial
22-02-2013 20:11 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Image Drone info stall in Wrexham 11 Dec: report and photos
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Image Photos: 24 Nov in Wrexham - Solidarity with Gaza. Boycott Barclays Bank.
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