Why We're Marching On 20 September

bristol | peace | announcement Thursday September 11, 2008 12:40 by info@bristolstopwar

Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Muslim Initiative are organising a demonstration at the Labour Party conference in Manchester on Saturday 20 September, to ensure that the voice of the anti-war majority that opposes the government's warmongering is prominently represented. Please join us.

There are coaches from Bristol leaving at 8.15am from Anchor Rd (opposite @Bristol)

For a map see: http://www.multimap.com/maps/?hloc=GB|bs1%205db

Still tickets remaining £14 waged, £7 unwaged. To reserve a ticket please email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com giving your name, address & phone number.

Tickets are also on sale at

Circle Books, 65 North St, Bristol, BS3 1ES. Map:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=358068&Y...Y&Z=1
La Ruca, 89 Gloucester Rd, Bristol, BS7 8AS. Map:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=359016&Y...Y&Z=1

For further information email bristolstopwar@hotmail.com.

If you aren’t able to come on 20th September but want to show your support by making a donation towards the cost of the coaches please make out a cheque to ‘Bristol Stop The War Coalition’ and post it to BSTWC, 23 Monmouth Road, Bristol, BS7 8LF.

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What will British foreign secretary David Miliband say in his speech to Labour's annual conference in Manchester? It's all too predictable. 'We' are 'winning' in Iraq, making 'progress' in Afghanistan, defending 'democracy' in Georgia, confronting Iran to protect world 'security' and waging endless war against 'global terrorism'. 'We' stand "shoulder to shoulder" with George Bush and whoever his successor may be in following slavishly wherever US foreign policy takes 'us'.

There will be no place in Miliband's speech for the views of the people of Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and anywhere else that the Bush wars have brought, or threaten to bring, mass slaughter and destruction. Only last weekend a mass demonstration of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad to call for all foreign troops to get out of Iraq, confirming country wide polls which show this to be the view of an overwhelming majority.

And David Miliband will not have a word to say about the large majorities in both Britain and the United States who have consistently opposed the warmongering carried out in their name and insisted that the US and British troops all be withdrawn from Iraq and Afghanistan.

David Miliband, Gordon Brown and the rest of the Labour government, who have so seamlessly adopted the war policies of Tony Blair, hope that the ever dutiful mainstream media will help delude people in this country into believing that 'we' are 'winning' and making 'progress' in our support for illegal invasions.

This is why Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Muslim Initiative are organising a demonstration.

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