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Smash EDO to Hold 'Remember Gaza' Demonstrations as two more Carnivalistas are acquitted

21-10-2009 09:45

Press Release

For immediate release: 21/10/2009

Press Release - Smash EDO to Hold 'Remember Gaza' Demonstrations as two more Protesters are Acquitted

Demonstration to Remember the Victims of the January Gaza Massacre. Monday 21st October 4-6pm. For more information contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh: 07754135290.

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Statement from Detainees on Hunger Strike in Brook House

19-10-2009 23:13

Over forty detainees in Brook House including many who were forcibly deported to Baghdad and then sent back by the Iraqi government are hunger striking until they are released.

Solidarity is needed!

Contact  stopdeportation@riseup.net to get involved

See the hunger strikers statement below:

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EDO Carnivalistas appeal Continues - Please Support

19-10-2009 22:03

Appeal of two people arrested during the Carnival Against the Arms Trade (see -  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399714.html)

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Iraq deportation protest in Parliament Sq

19-10-2009 15:41

Anti-deportation campaigners gathered in Parliament Square, London, on Saturday, 17th October, to protest against the first (failed) mass deportation flight to Baghdad.

The demonstration, called by the Stop Deportation Network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugee, saw protesters holding banners and placards and shouting slogans against forcible deportation in general and to a war zone like Iraq in particular.

Speakers, including veteran anti-war protester Brian Haw, denounced the British government's hypocrisy and its role in creating the Iraqi refugee crisis through its involvement in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Two deportees, who had been returned to Brook House detention centre after the flight was turned away at Baghdad airport by the Iraqi authorities, also spoke on the phone and told protesters, via a megaphone, of the violence and mistreatment they had experienced during the deportation at the hands of immigration officers and private security guards.

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Demonstration at Brighton Town Hall tomorrow

18-10-2009 17:36

see www.smashedo.org.uk

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Target Brimar campaign statement, Saturday 17th October 2009

17-10-2009 15:43

Arrests at peaceful anti-arms demonstration in Chadderton

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War Is Peace. Ignorance Is Strength

16-10-2009 23:36

Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties, farmers and construction workers with weapons such as the innovative Hellfire missile, which sucks the air out of your lungs. According to the UN, 338,000 Afghan infants are dying under the Obama-led alliance, which permits only $29 per head annually to be spent on medical care.

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Iraq returns Iraqi deportees to the UK

16-10-2009 18:19

The Iraqi refugees who were just deported from the UK have been denied entry in Iraq. The BBC seems to have the only report of this unique debacle.

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Demonstrate to stop deportations to Iraq tomorrow - new info

16-10-2009 11:02

The first deportation to Baghdad deported around forty people early on Thursday the 15th October on a specially chartered plane provided by Air Italy . We have since learnt that ten of the detained people were taken off the flight in Baghdad while the other detainees were not accepted by the Iraqi government and were flown back to detention in the UK. A Home Office statement has said they will "iron out" the difficulties they faced and "expect to carry out another flight".

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Security, Reconciliation in Iraq Are Irreconcilable

16-10-2009 09:46

In the end, negotiating the U.S. exit strategy with al-Baath and the Iraqi resistance, the real enemy, could prove the only viable way out of Iraq for the United States.

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Press Release - Smash EDO Rally Calling for Council Motion Condemning EDO

16-10-2009 08:46

Press Release

For immediate release: 16/10/2009

Press Release - Smash EDO to Council: We should discuss weapons factory in our city?

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Protest Against Deportation to Iraq

15-10-2009 21:00

Around fifty people protested on Wednesday the 14th against the deportation of more than forty people to Baghdad.

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Carnival Against the Arms Trade Court Date set

13-10-2009 14:32

Five people are on trial in Brighton Magistrates Court for several offences relating to last year's Carnival Against the Arms Trade (see -  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399714.html)

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Support the Asnar Family - Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group Appeal

12-10-2009 22:01

URGENT: Support Ezat's right to visit his sick daughter in hospital

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Mass deportation flight to Southern Iraq this week

12-10-2009 12:20

A specially chartered, mass deportation flight is scheduled to leave to southern Iraq for the first time. The flight is expected to go to Baghdad.
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