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Galloway to go on anti-war tour of US with Jane Fonda
by Open-Publishing - Monday 29 August 200510 comments
Edito Movement Wars and conflicts USA
By Andrew Buncombe
George Galloway, the anti-war MP for Bethnal Green and Bow who rocked the US Senate earlier this year, is to be accompanied on a speaking tour of America by the actress and activist Jane Fonda.
Few things are more likely to antagonise US conservatives than the combination of Mr Galloway and Ms Fonda - still hated by the right because of her outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam - joining to condemn the American presence in Iraq. But Mr Galloway can expect a thunderous reception from those he impressed with his performance before a Senate committee last May.
In a statement, Mr Galloway, the Respect MP, said: "I’m really pleased and excited to be going back to America to campaign against this illegal war and occupation. And to have Jane Fonda join me is fantastic. I’ll be able to get that autograph at last."
He added: "I’m sure that when the full implications of the constitutional settlement lashed-up by the puppet Iraqi government are understood that opposition will grow massively."
Mr Galloway, whose speaking tour, Stand Up and Be Counted, starts in Boston on 13 September and will end at a rally scheduled for 24 September in Washington, said he had received more than 20,000 messages from US residents asking him to return. He will also be promoting a new book, Mr Galloway Goes To Washington.
A tour organiser, Chris Dols, said: "People want to hear Jane Fonda and what she has to say about the war. That’s worth hearing, and George Galloway has a lot to say about it, too."
George Galloway, the anti-war MP for Bethnal Green and Bow who rocked the US Senate earlier this year, is to be accompanied on a speaking tour of America by the actress and activist Jane Fonda.
Few things are more likely to antagonise US conservatives than the combination of Mr Galloway and Ms Fonda - still hated by the right because of her outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam - joining to condemn the American presence in Iraq. But Mr Galloway can expect a thunderous reception from those he impressed with his performance before a Senate committee last May.
In a statement, Mr Galloway, the Respect MP, said: "I’m really pleased and excited to be going back to America to campaign against this illegal war and occupation. And to have Jane Fonda join me is fantastic. I’ll be able to get that autograph at last."
He added: "I’m sure that when the full implications of the constitutional settlement lashed-up by the puppet Iraqi government are understood that opposition will grow massively."
Mr Galloway, whose speaking tour, Stand Up and Be Counted, starts in Boston on 13 September and will end at a rally scheduled for 24 September in Washington, said he had received more than 20,000 messages from US residents asking him to return. He will also be promoting a new book, Mr Galloway Goes To Washington.
A tour organiser, Chris Dols, said: "People want to hear Jane Fonda and what she has to say about the war. That’s worth hearing, and George Galloway has a lot to say about it, too."
Forum posts
29 August 2005, 06:10
Jane Fonda has given up here former stand with the war in Vietnam. Her visit in Hanoi was a right thing to do. Supporting the troops means support of murderers.
The message it is not crime if we do it, or united we stand for a cause doesn’t apply. America was guilty in Vietnam and is now in Iraq! To many human being have been killed for a system that was never freedom oriented or democratic and is now stepping on human rights for it’s religion extremism and phony war on the so called "terrorists".
Get out of Iraq!
29 August 2005, 22:16
Yes, an aging actress and an angry dwarf are coming soon to a town near you.
29 August 2005, 23:09
They may ageing and a dwarf, but you would have to stand on a 10 foot box in order to kiss their behinds. These people are truth tellers and if you can.t handle the truth, sign off....
30 August 2005, 02:47
And of course your name is Gulliver and you’ve just been shipwrecked.
But don’t fear after the Lilliputians you will eventually find yourself in the company of Yahoos and you will live happily ever after.
Good night and sleep well.
30 August 2005, 02:51
The Gulliver message is for 55/167 that one line story teller.
30 August 2005, 23:39
Correction the Gulliver message is for 65/157
31 August 2005, 14:13
10-4 .............................
2 September 2005, 18:41
I hope that The US appreciates Gallowy he is indeed a powerful speaker, he is also a blessing for our Parliament, without his speach <http://www.respectcoalition.org/?ite=821> it is unlikely that any of the other Polititians would have come out and made the link between Iraq and Terror bombings in London, despite it being so obvious. Yet he was condemed for doing so, (even though the others later were not) and called Traitor for the second time by the Murdock press particually THE SUN newspaper (although it should be just be called Toilet Paper). This has put Tony Blair on the ropes again only held up by his judges, police and deluded collegues , Blair belongs on trial along with Bush for their lies and warmongering, they have blood on there hand and so much more than that of the ’Insurgents’ or ’Terrorists’ who’s the biggest terrorist one should ask and if the answer is GWB then you’re dead right. I am sure if you go and see George will put it far better.
12 September 2005, 01:25
Galloway and Fonda are apoligists for communist and islamofascist murders. And, Chris Dols is a member of the ISO on the UW madison campus, and he said that he wanted to shut certain groups on campus up.
Sounds like Stalinism to me!
12 September 2005, 02:35
You ignorant twit...the biggest supporter for the communists is Bush, he is China’ s newest whore for a buck or two and they have loaned him enough money to keep the U.S. out of bankruptcy, but you are too stupid to know that (you must be some decrepit old left over from the "Most Fucked up Generation"). And I bet someone as stupid as you are hasn’t a clue that Wal-mart(the LARGEST EMPLOYER in the United States) would not even be in business if it was not for the cheap Chinese shit on every shelve. And you probably go there and buy it all making you a huge supporter of those terrible commies. Jane and George probably never go into Wal-Mart, so who really supports the commies. Your tax dollars (presuming you are not some social security indigent) are all going to China to repay the huge deficet your faggot leader Bush has gotten us into...but you wouldn’t know anything about that.
It is amazing to me how in this day and age anyone could possibly be afraid of the commies. The commies won the Vietnam war and despite all of the lies and propaganda about the doom of the commies taking over the world if we didn’t stay the course and kill 3million people over 10 years in order to "WIN", it turned out to be total lies as usual. And now we have to go hat in hand and beg them to loan us enough money to keep us out of another depression (you remember that time don’t you gramps?) U.S. corporations are falling all over themselves to do business with and in communist China (the largest nation on earth) to get a piece of the accumulating world wealth there. Try to keep up Gramps, the world is leaving you behind the commies are our new best friend.