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  • British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESS RELEASE: Galloway Tour
    British MP George Galloway Announces September Tour of United States to Speak Against War in Iraq
    George Galloway is Respect party MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in East London. He recently electrified the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings intoa condemnation of the war in Iraq.
    CNN’s Wolf Blitzer described Galloway’s speech in the Senate as "a blistering (…)

  • Simply Red : Cuba’s Unique, Says British Rocker
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Visiting Havana for two concerts this weekend, member Mick Huncknall of the British rock group “Simply Red” described Cuba as “a unique country in the world.”
    Huncknall, the bands vocalist and composer, said he was surprised by the lack of commercial ads along Havana’s streets. “It’s different to the rest of the world, where all the cities seem to be the same,” he added.
    The singer praised Cuban music, particularly the island’s wind and percussion instrumentalists, whom he said add (…)

  • LONDON - PEACE NOT WAR SOLIDARITY EVENT - 3RD BIRTHDAY - 11th SEPTEMBER 2005
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Don’t miss Peace Not War’s 3rd Birthday Party on Sunday September 11 (5-12pm) at Cargo Club in Shoreditch.
    In the current atmosphere of fear, division and Islamaphobia, Peace Not War aims to unite via the dancefloor. UK hiphop is a cross-cultural force that represents the oppressed and calls for peace, justice and solidarity. With acts as diverse as Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, The Extremists, Mecca2Medina and DJ Rubbish, the night will celebrate the coming-of-age of this (…)

  • G8 arrests - call out for info & witnesses
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July.
    If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on...
    G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED
    At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set length of time. (…)

  • The Guardian and the de Menezes killing
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
    New leaks from official sources in Britain have added to the evidence already brought to light, proving that the official story of how Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down was a pack of lies. In response, the liberal daily newspaper the Guardian has rushed to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, justifying the use of death squads and excusing a cover-up aimed at concealing how the police murdered an innocent man.
    De (…)

  • Family of slain Brazilian refuses compensation offer
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The parents of the Brazilian man killed mistakenly by British anti-terror police in south London have reportedly turned down a compensation offer of 1 million pounds (1.8 million US dollars).
    Matozinho and Maria de Menezes, parents of 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, have reportedly rejected the offer as an insult, Sky news reported on Saturday.
    "We will not be bought off. We will not be silenced. This is not about money, this is about justice," they told the Daily Mail newspaper. (…)

  • An Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dear Prime Minister: Not since the Christie Affair * (1862-1865) have relations between our two countries been this bad; I mean Brazil and England. Quite apart from the lies of the war which, in our cups, I’m sure we all agree, were fantastic fibs (great with the rabble, though, I must admit: they sold like hot cakes here in the US where I live), I think you would better do right by the De Menezes dossier and not try to "fix the facts around the policy" on this matter. Brazil did not (…)

  • De Menezes: Another Corpse on the Road to Globalist Fascism
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Kurt Nimmo
    The blogger Aangirfan draws a parallel between the execution of the seemingly hapless Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July in the London subway and Operation Gladio. As Aangirfan points out, de Menezes “behaved normally” when he entered Stockwell Tube station, did not run from police (or rather a “Special Reconnaissance Regiment, modeled on an undercover unit that operated in Northern Ireland,” according to the Guardian), did not jump a tollgate and used his Oyster card (a (…)

  • Met Chief Must Resign Or Be Sacked
    19 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Sir Ian tried to stop shooting inquiry
    by Brian Richards
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 08/19/05 — On July 22-the same day that UK police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician-Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (shown here), attempted to stop an independent external investigation into the shooting of the young Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber.
    According to a report in the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Sir Ian wrote to John (…)

  • Leaked report lists ’blunders’ as police shot bomb suspect
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Daniel McGrory and Stewart Tendler
    SCOTLAND YARD made “a series of catastrophic errors” that led to armed officers hunting the July 21 bombers shooting dead an innocent Brazilian, it was claimed last night.
    Leaked witness statements from officers who took part in the botched operation reveal that Jean Charles de Menezes was restrained by one of Scotland Yard’s surveillance team before being shot eight times as he sat on a Tube train.
    Documents and photographs from the Independent (…)