IRAN - don't attack days of action

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DON'T ATTACK IRAN DAYS OF ACTION
The intensifying threats against Iran were also central to Stop
the War's annual national conference on Saturday 27 October,
attended by around 500 delegates and observers from 118 different
groups attended, showing the continuing breadth of our coalition.

The conference voted to organise a DON'T ATTACK IRAN national day
of action. On Saturday 24 November , to include die-ins, pickets,
protests and public meetings. It was also agreed to start
planning protest action, if an attack on Iran becomes imminent,
and to encourage the widest possible support for Stop the War's
Iran Pledge (see: http://tinyurl.com/2cnjmo).

One of the most encouraging aspects of the conference was the
high representation from student organisations, reflecting the
recent growth in anti-war activity in colleges across the
country. Eighty student delegates attended an activist meeting at
the conference to discuss building the movement and specifically
to plan for mobilising a students' DON'T ATTACK IRAN national day
of action on Thursday 22 November.

Among the platform speakers from the platform were Annas Al
Takriti from the British Muslim Initiative, the Guardian's Seumas
Milne, Lawyer of the Year Phil Shiner, currently exposing British
torture in Iraq, Kate Hudson from CND, Lindsey German from Stop
the War, George Solomou from Military Families against the War,
Iraqi journalist Sami Ramadani, Campaign Iran's Somaye Zadeh, and
MPs George Galloway and Jeremy Corbyn.

A wide range of delegates spoke from the floor on issues ranging
from Islamophobia and civil liberties to growing western
intervention in Africa. With the media once again collaborating
in laying the ground for yet more war, a media worker spoke about
the importance of the Media Workers Against the War organisation,
which has an upcoming conference on Saturday 17 November, titled
WAR, TRUTH AND THE MEDIA TODAY (see: http://tinyurl.com/ypzqbo )

FOR AN AGM REPORT, DETAILS OF RESOULTIONS PASSED AND VIDEO OF THE
SPEECHES, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/2oxzhc