June 27th : BLAIR’S LAST DAY: JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET

BLAIR’S LAST DAY:
JOIN MILITARY FAMILIES AGAINST THE WAR
PROTEST IN DOWNING STREET
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 10AM – 12 NOON

Military Families Against the War, representing families who have lost
relatives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, will be in Downing Street
on Tony Blair’s last day in office, Wednesday 27 June. They will be
holding pictures of their loved ones who have died as a result of Tony
Blair’s war crimes. The Military Families are inviting everyone who is able
to join them to come to Downing Street between 10am and 12 noon, when
Blair will leave for the last time. Stop the War Coalition will be
supporting their protest, to help ensure that Blair’s last day is marked by
a protest against his war policies, which have lead to the deaths of
up to one million Iraqis, countless Afghan civilians, 152 British
soldiers in Iraq and 61 soldiers in Afghanistan.

Rose Gentle, whose son Gordon was killed in Iraq almost exactly two
years ago, says, "Let our photos be the last thing Blair sees when he
leaves number 10."

In the afternoon, the Military Families will hand a letter for Gordon
Brown into Downing Street, asking him to meet the families of those
soldiers who have died in Iraq, a request which Tony Blair has turned down
repeatedly over the past three years.

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2) OVER 5000 DEMONSTRATE IN MANCHESTER
5000 protestors marched up to the Labour Party special leadership
conference on Sunday 24 June, to insist that the first thing Gordon Brown
does when he takes office is to change government policy on Iraq and
bring the troops home now.

Stop the War national Andrew Murray told the demonstration, "We are
here to wave goodbye to the most dangerous and warmongering prime minister
in modern British history and to demand that he takes his policies
with him. The Pope may forgive Tony Blair but the British people will not.
We are demanding that Gordon Brown gives us a fresh start by pulling
troops out of Iraq and breaking with George Bush’s foreign policy."

FOR A REPORT ON THE DEMONSTRATION, GO TO:
http://tinyurl.com/2tcbg4

FOR PICTURES AND VIDEO OF THE DEMONSTRATION, GO TO:
http://www.mancsagainsttanks.org/

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3) WHERE CAN TONY BLAIR GO NOW?
Where Tony Blair should go, is straight to a war crimes tribunal. In
the immediate future what beckons is speeches at a fee of £100,000 a time
and a multi-million pound advance for his memoirs. Other options being
suggested are discussed by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in this article:
http://tinyurl.com/37cxpr