Sat20Nov - LONDON - Afghanistan Troops Out Demo.

[TonyGosling]

National Demo: Afghanistan - Time To Go
Location: Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square, London
Time: Saturday, 20 November 2010 12:00

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/2045/27/
The demonstration will assemble in Hyde Park at 12 noon and march to Trafalgar Square for a rally, when speakers will include Tony Benn, Eric Joyce MP, Guardian journalist Seumas Milne and Lowkey (more to be announced soon).

The war in Afghanistan has entered its tenth year, making it longer than World War I and World War II combined. Both prime minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband support continuing the war, at least till 2015. Thousands more Afghan civilians and Nato soldiers will be killed in a pointless and unwinnable war, when over 70 per cent of the British public want all British troops withdrawn now. Join this crucial demonstration which will give voice to the anti-war majority in the country and tell the politicians the time to go is now.


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[KEVIN]

The demonstration on 20/11/10 calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan is very important.

Lets have a bid turn out from truth movement activists

[scubadiver]

There were a few of us there. Can you see the sign?

[TonyGosling]

Thousands march against war in Afghanistan

.....Other speakers were adamant that a withdrawal of combat troops by 2015 was too late. Joe Glenton, a former soldier who was jailed for six months for refusing to serve in Afghanistan, said the war was a "sham".

Mr Glenton, who has returned his veteran's medal to Downing Street, said: "This isn't about defence of our country or our liberty. What are these men going to return to? A country that has been mutilated financially and politically."

John McDonnell, Labour MP for Hayes and Harlington, said the protesters were "the conscience of this nation". He accused Nato leaders in Lisbon of propping up "the most corrupt government across the planet" and expressed solidarity with the protesters who rioted at Millbank last week.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5ir7Ge20JSIh0Iet EH6psm1Ed8uPw