Today's action success!

Salam everyone,

1. today's action
2. military families protest 21st December
3. support joe glenton
4. mother courage sold out

1.
Today's action in Westminster was a roaring success, literally! Chanting as we 'died' outside the houses of parliament blocking the traffic, as we went round parliament square, and as we marched to the gates of downing street. Passers-by showed lots of interest, many showing support of our message to Gordon. The placards we left around the cenitaph were unfortunately removed very quickly, but the action should be in a number of media reports and blogs soon.

2.
Members of military families and ex-soldiers from across the

country have pledged to join the protest at Downing Street on
Monday 21 December.

Exeter, Plymouth, York, Dundee, Manchester, Chesterfield,
Burnley and Leeds are just some of the places which have
organised delegations of supporters to come down with the
military families.

Military Families Against the War (http://www.mfaw.net/) is inviting the widest possible support for 21 December. Stop the War is asking all its local groups to organise delegations and make contact with military families in their area.
If you know of military family members who are opposed to the war, please inform them about the protest on 21 December and put them in touch with the national Stop the War office: call 020 7801 2768 or email office@stopwar.org.uk.

3.
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton has been imprisoned for 28 days as
the first stage of proceedings against him for five charges
which carry a maximum sentence of ten years.

Joe's imprisonment is intended to silence his opposition to
the war in Afghanistan, but he has already said he will still
speak out.

Joe needs the support of the anti-movement more than ever.

Stop the War is asking all its local groups to send messages
to Joe (see below), if they haven't already done so.

Please circulate as widely as you can Joe's contact details
and encourage anyone you know who opposes the war to email or
write letters to him in support of his courageous stand.

EMAIL MESSAGES TO:
defendjoeglenton@gmail.com

SEND LETTERS, CARDS TO:
Lance Corporal Joe Glenton
Military Corrective Training Centre
Berechurch Hall Camp
Colchester
Essex CO2 9NU

4.
Tickets for the Mature Students' day out including Brecht's 'Mother Courage' at the National have now sold out.

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For more info on soas stws and upcoming events head to:
http://soasstopthewar.blogspot.com/

Also: Stop the War Coalition national office 020 7801 2768 and http://stopwar.org.uk/

Direct action on Downing st

Soas meet up 1pm on steps


The Afghanistan Day of Action on Wednesday is being supported by Stop the War Coalition, CND, War on Want, FOSIS, Lowkey (Peoples Army, Mongrel..) and many other groups and individuals... will you be there too???

A few final details for Wednesday...

MEET- 1:30pm, Parliament Square. Due to the logistics of the event it is vital that people arrive by 1:30pm at the latest- we need to all arrive together so we can move on to the DIE-IN.

Please wear BLACK or dark colours. If your university group has a banner, please feel free to bring it along with you- the more visual we are the better!

Please carry on building, spreading the word (text, twitter, email, facebook...) and mobilising! Look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday!

0779 2121 239 for further info. or if you have any questions.

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Signs of Revolt exhibition

The team from Globalise Resistance mark the 10th anniversary of the battles at Seattle by bringing to us a wonderful exhibition of photos, art, videos and more.

Some of went this weekend for the talks, it was really good, inspiring and we got lots of ideas.

Just turn up basically :-)

Free entrance.

See http://signsofrevolt.net/ for more details.