Wed24Jan - LONDON - Stop The War lobby Parliament

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STOP THE WAR COALITION
>NEWSLETTER No. 2007/01
>13 January 2007
>Email office@stopwar.org.uk
>Telephone 020 7278 6694
>Web: www.stopwar.org.uk

see also... Sat24Feb - LONDON - March to Stop the Iran War
http://www.nineeleven.co.uk/board/viewtopic.php?t=6333

>
>IN THIS NEWSLETTER:
>1) JANUARY 24: ALL EYES ON PARLIAMENT
>2) NO TO TRIDENT / YES TO TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
>3) TURNING BAGHDAD INTO VIETNAM
>4) NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION: 24 FEBRUARY
>5) MORE WAR CRIMES IN SOMALIA
>6) TONY BLAIR ON TRIAL
>7) ISLAMOPHOBIA  THE NEW RACISM
>
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>1) JANUARY 24: ALL EYES ON PARLIAMENT
>Predictably, Tony Blair is virtually alone among world
>leaders in supporting George Bush's "new strategy" for
>Iraq. Blair says the plan "makes sense". Is this the
>same Tony Blair who barely one month ago welcomed the
>Iraq Study Group's report, saying, "It is practical,
>it's clear, and it offers also the way of bringing
>people together"? The ISG report called for a phased
>withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and dialogue with
>Iran and Syria -- in other words, the opposite of
>Bush's "new strategy."
>
>There is one group that has always had the power to
>stop Blair's compulsive subservience to George Bush:
>members of parliament. So far, the majority have
>acquiesced in every stage of Blair's warmongering. On
>24 January, Iraq will be debated and voted on in
>parliament. Stop the War has called for a lunchtime
>lobby of MPs, followed by an evening demonstration
>outside the House of Commons (details below). Between
>now and then we need to do everything possible to
>ensure that MPs know that they must not repeat their
>abject performance on 31 October 2006, when only 12
>Labour MPs voted for an inquiry into the whole Iraq
>disaster. (See http://tinyurl.com/y95y6q)
>
>Stop the War is organising a concerted campaign over
>the next two weeks to put pressure on MPs 
>particularly Labour MPs -- to stop collaborating with
>Blair's war policies. Round the country, all local
>Stop the War Groups are being asked to organise
>protests and lobbies at MPs' surgeries, where the
>local MP can be urged face-to-face to say yes Troops
>Out of Iraq. We have launched a postcard write-in
>campaign (see below), for MPs' constituents to write
>to their local MP and ask how he or she will be voting
>on Iraq and on Trident missiles (see below).
>
>This will culminate in the two events at parliament on
>24 January. Please join us if you can and encourage as
>many of their friends, work colleagues, fellow
>students, etc, to be there too. See the Stop the War
>website for further details: www.stopwar.org.uk
>
>*JOIN THE LUNCHTIME LOBBY AT PARLIAMENT
>WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY AT 1.00PM
>STOP TRIDENT / TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
>HOUSE OF COMMONS, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
>
>*JOIN THE EVENING DEMONSTRATION
>WEDNESDAY 24 JANUARY AT 5.00-7.00PM
>STOP TRIDENT / TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
>HOUSE OF COMMONS, PARLIAMENT SQUARE
>(MPs vote on the Iraq motion at 7.00pm)
>
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>2) NO TO TRIDENT / YES TO TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ Stop the
>War and CND are organising a postcard write-in
>campaign aimed at every MP. We are asking all our
>supporters to get as many people as possible to send
>their local MP a special postcard, which is available
>free of charge from the Stop the War office. The
>postcard calls for a commitment from the MP to vote
>for Troops Out of Iraq and against Tony Blair's plans
>for a new generation of Trident nuclear weapons. The
>postcards are available from the Stop the War office
>(office@stopwar.org.uk or 020 7278 6694). The design
>and text of the postcard can be viewed on the Stop the
>War website here: http://tinyurl.com/y5ky5k

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