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NO TO NATO: PROTEST MAY 19

by London - Open-Publishing - Friday 4 May 2012
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Protest: Troops out of Afghanistan - Don’t Attack Iran - No intervention in the
Middle East

1pm, May 19, US embassy, Grosvenor Square, London WC1

Stop the War and CND has called this protest to support the US movement and to
demand an end to NATO’s disastrous policies. Thousands of people will be
demonstrating in Chicago on the weekend of May 19/20 as NATO officials gather
for a crucial conference.

Military action against Iran will be high on NATO’s agenda. New big power
negotiations with Iran show that popular concern about an attack is having an
impact. But still the right in the US and Israel favour an attack. For Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu, Iran is ’an existential threat’. The Republican
leadership in the US is unanimously in favour of ’tough action’.

Pressure for NATO military intervention in Syria is growing. NATO is
masquerading as a champion of democracy in Syria, despite the fact that NATO
countries are backing dictators across from Bahrein and Saudi to Yemen. The
West is already funding the opposition in Syria. Direct military intervention
will inflame the fighting; its only aim will be to increase the Western powers’
grip on the region.

The Afghan disaster will also be discussed in Chicago. Though the war is
clearly lost, occupying forces are set to stay in Afghanistan for at least two
more years. Keeping NATO troops in place will inevitably lead to more
atrocities and destruction and as ex diplomat Carne Ross argued recently, make
a negotiated peace much more difficult.

The threat of a further war is growing. Make sure you join the mass protest on
May 19th and spread the word. Leaflets are available from the office - please
organise to distribute them.

Forum posts

  • Protests won’t do any good. Get real. There’s only ONE solution to take back the US government from the corporate criminals that have hijacked it. And I think you KNOW what solution is. It’s US against THEM. And THEY have all the weapons.

    • The People’s voices should be heard though, as no one knows better what the masses need than the masses themselves. They are the ones who should take back the US and any government from the criminals, so that all weapons as well as all power will belong to the people. Being silent is not an option, and we all should start to believe in the power of the masses, if we don’t believe in it the masses will never accomplish a thing.