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19 MARCH 2005: OVER 100,000 MARCH TO MARK THE SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF IRAQ INVASION

Over 30 LSHTM staff and students attended the demonstration after marching to Hyde Park with students from UCL.






Pictures by Anna Cehovin

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THOUSANDS JOINED THE ANTI WAR MARCH ON SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER 2004

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Emergency Lobby of 10 Downing Street
GIVE IRAQ BACK
TO THE IRAQIS!
END THE SLAUGHTER


Picture by Scott Plimpton
Saturday 17 April, 12-2pm, outside 10 Downing Street
Called by Stop the War Coalition. Supported by CND and the Muslim Association of Britain.

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EMERGENCY CALL FOR SOLIDARITY WITH THE IRAQI PEOPLE
April 8, 2004
Eman Ahmed Khammas
Director, International Occupation Watch Center
Occupied Baghdad
To the peoples of the world and their representatives at the United Nations:
The Iraqi people call for international solidarity as they resist attacks by US-led Occupation Forces. It is clear that these attacks are designed to terrorize entire populations of Iraqi towns and neighborhoods.

According to reports, in Fallujah alone, over three hundred Iraqis have been killed and hundreds more injured since attacks began on Sunday, April 4. There is fighting in Baghdad, particularly in the neighborhoods of Sadr, Adaamiya, Shula, Yarmok, and the cities and towns of Fallujah, Ramadi, Basrah, Nasiriya, Kerbala, Amarah, Kut, Kufa, Najaf, Diwaniya, Balad, and Baquba. Residences, hospitals, mosques and ambulances trying to transport the injured are being bombed and fired at by Occupation ForcesÕ guns and tanks.

Fallujah and Adaamiya are currently under siege, surrounded by Occupation Forces, in contravention of the Geneva Convention that prohibits holding civilian communities under siege. Hospitals do not have access to sufficient medical aid, essential medicine and equipment or blood supplies. In Fallujah, the hospitals have been surrounded by soldiers forcing doctors to establish field hospitals in private homes. Blood donors are not allowed to enter; consequently, mosques in both Baghdad and Falluja are collecting blood for the injured. Water and electricity have been cut off for the past several days.

In Sadr City US helicopters have fired rockets into residential areas destroying homes. Although no curfew has officially been imposed, US soldiers have made a practice of aiming tank fire on cars they find moving through the streets after dark. On Tuesday night alone, at least 6 people were killed in this way. US forces continue to occupy and surround all the police stations and the Sadr municipal offices.

While these attacks have escalated sharply over the past week, they are in no way a new phenomenon in occupied Iraq. The indiscriminate killing of civilians and the refusal to provide people with security, electricity and decent medical infrastructure have characterized the ÔfreedomÕ that Occupation Authorities have brought to Iraq.

We call on the international community, civil society and the anti-war/anti-occupation movements to respond to this US-led war of terror with tangible displays of solidarity and support for Iraqi people facing this gruesome manifestation of the occupation.

Please take to the streets to demand an end to the US-led aggression. Organize protests in front of US consulates and embassies around the world and demand: an immediate end to this massacre; an immediate end to the siege of Iraqi cities and neighborhoods; immediate access to humanitarian and medical aid organizations seeking to provide assistance to Iraqi people who are living under attack; and an end to the occupation of our nation.

Cities in which demonstrations have been organized or taken place include Milan, Montreal, Tokyo, Istanbul, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York City.

To contact the International Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad, please call 001 914 360-9079 or 001 914 360-9080.
You can also email eman@occupationwatch.org.

For the latest information on the crisis in Iraq, visit www.occupationwatch.org.

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SIGN THE PETITION AGAINST INTERNMENT WITHOUT TRIAL
http://www.petitiononline.com/campacc/petition.html

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100,000 JOIN LONDON DEMO AGAINST A YEAR OF WAR AND LIES, 20.03.04


Picture: Richard Searle


Picture: Cathy Pound


Picture: Cathy Pound


Picture: Aturem la Guerra!

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200 PEOPLE ATTENDED CAMDEN STOP THE WAR MEETING 18th FEB 2004


To download video of the speeches click the links below.
TONY BENN Windows Media (17.8Mb) Quicktime movie (12.7Mb)
LINDSEY GERMAN Windows Media (23.6Mb) Quicktime movie (14.3Mb)
DR. DAUD ABDULLAH (Muslim Association of Britain)
HANNAH (School student)

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Media Release 28 January 2004

HUTTON WHITEWASH

PROTEST OUTSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET
Saturday 31st January,
from 12 noon to 2pm.

picture: Neil White

The Stop the War Coalition today completely rejects the conclusions of Lord Hutton's Inquiry.
Far from providing an impartial analysis of the reason we were taken into war, we have a report of over 700 pages which can only be called a whitewash. We believe that millions of people in Britain will be astonished and dismayed that this report criticises everyone except the government.
Hutton's remit was always narrow, but he has made a clear decision to believe the politicians rather than anyone else.
The major questions about the war remain unanswered. Why were we lied to about the imminent threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction? Where are the weapons? Did Tony Blair and George Bush agree secretly to go to war as far back as spring 2002?
We accept Tony Blair's challenge to debate fully the reasons behind the decisions to go to war, including the discredited claim of weapons of mass destruction, and call on him to set up a full an independent inquiry into reasons why the UK entered a war that broke international law.

Lindsey German, National Convenor of the Stop the War Coalition.


Stop the War has published it's own report in the form of a pamphlet written by eminent lawyers, politicians and journalists, demanding a full-scale inquiry into the reasons why Tony Blair took this country into war with Iraq. They are available from the office at £1 per pamphlet.

Press Release: The Alternative Hutton Report

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DEFEND HIJAB PROTEST

Over 1,000 People protested outside the French embassy at the French government's proposed ban on the muslim headscarf in state schools.

Pictures by Adrian Cousins

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ONLINE FILM ABOUT HISTORY OF US SUPPORT FOR SADDAM

See more animations at buzzflash.com

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STOP BUSH NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
An estimated 300,000 people took part

Around 50 staff and students from LSHTM took part in the demonstration.

All images by Anne Koerber

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