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Issue 2463 | July - August 2005

Editorial: It was only a matter of time

by Ippy D | Comment | July - August 2005

Terrorist atrocities are a daily occurrence around the world. ...

News in Brief

Pirates set sail again· Independence from America ...read

Reviews

Andrew Murray and Lindsey German , 'Stop the War: The story of Britain's biggest mass movement'
Julia Guest (dir), 'A Letter to the Prime Minister: Jo Wilding in Iraq'
Satish Kumar, 'The Buddha and the Terrorist'
Franny Armstrong (dir), 'Helen Steel and Dave Morris, McLibel - the postman and the gardener who took on McDonalds. And won'
Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans (eds), 'Stop The Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism'

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The Marxist-Lennonists

by Martin Jeezer | Comment | July - August 2005

b>In the old Resistance office in Washington DC, there used to be a sign on the door describing the politics found within. ...

Mission accomplished? Iraq and the general election coverage

by Ian Taylor | Comment | July - August 2005

April 29: It's less than a week before the General Election, the legality of the Iraq war is looking shakier than ever after the Attorney General's original advice to the Prime Minister has ...

Games, anarchists and bombs

by The Mole | Comment | July - August 2005

There was a Parisian campaign to say “non” to the Olympics - which, surprisingly, got no coverage over here - as well as the (slightly reported) campaign by sensible people in London who o ...

Death worse than fete

by Jeff Cloves | Comment | July - August 2005

Do you remember Mr Major's now infamous vision of British (English, surely) life? Spinsters on bicycles pedalling to evensong, warm beer and cricket matches. ...

Bringing it all back home

by David MacKenzie | Comment | July - August 2005

Possibly the best thing that can be said for travel as an educational experience is that it can give you added clarity about the state of your own corner when you return to it. ...

Another cog in the machine

by Anna-Linnea Rundberg | Feature | July - August 2005

In the spirit of the protests against Menwith Hill and against the “long arm” of US militarism, 35 Finnish and Swedish peace activists set up an action camp in Fauske, in northern Norway, b ...

A nuclear renaissance?

by Pete Roche | Feature | July - August 2005

Despite press speculation, the Government has continued to repeat its official position that, although the nuclear option cannot be ruled out, there are no proposals to build more reactors. ...

Long and winding road

by PN staff and Ann Wright | Feature | July - August 2005

PN: OK, so tell us a bit about your background -- how and why you got into the military and about your personal journey. ...

Hunger strike over

by Natasha Stone | News | July - August 2005

On 21 June, Turkish conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan ended his hunger strike: after 28 days, the prison authorities agreed to his conditions of equal treatment.

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The Freedom to Protest Conference

Feature | July - August 2005

There are a whole range of repressive and outrageous measures increasingly being used by police and companies to try and intimidate and undermine all manner of protests - including peace and anti-w ...

War crimes in Brighton?

by N Stone and A Nolan | News | July - August 2005

On 11 June, a demonstration against arms manufacturers EDO/MBM Technology was held by campaigners in Brighton. ...

Faslane G8

Feature | July - August 2005

Kicking off the G8 week in style, an estimated 2,000 people participated in a particularly “big” blockade at the Faslane naval base, home to Britain's four nuclear powered - and armed - Tr ...

Why I boycotted the G8 protests

by Janet Kilburn | Feature | July - August 2005

It is almost hard to know where to start with this - there are so many reasons! But here goes with the main ones... ...

Strength in diversity

by Kat Barton | Feature | July - August 2005

Wednesday 6 July marked the first day of the G8 summit, so on Tuesday night, while eight men in suits were preparing to sit down to a meal of Marrbury smoked salmon and roast fillet of Gle ...

Free trade - free movement?

by Sian Jones | Feature | July - August 2005

As part of the week of G8 actions, more than 1000 people protested at Dungavel Detention Centre (officially Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre) on 5 July against the detention of asylum se ...

N-waste dump plan

by Amber Nolan | News | July - August 2005

As the problem of what to do with nuclear waste continues to grow, a small tribe of Native Americans in Utah may soon find that their home will be the dumping ground for a group of electric ...

Bush demo arrestees call for solidarity

by Caroline James | News | July - August 2005

Anti-war activists have called for solidarity as over 20 people face charges following the demonstration against George W Bush’s UK visit in June. ...

Art Not Oil at the "National Petroleum Gallery"

by Natasha Stone | News | July - August 2005

On 13 June the Art Not Oil (ANO) exhibition kicked off outside the National Portrait Gallery in Central London. ...

25 years for peace

by Pavla Gossop | News | July - August 2005

Twenty-five years ago, on the green slope overlooking Willen Lake in Milton Keynes, the foundation stone was laid of the first Peace Pagoda in the Western Hemisphere.

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"Let us not forget"

by Women in Black, Belgrade | News | July - August 2005

It is now ten years since the Army of the Republic of Srpska, with the support of the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, killed more than 8,000 Bosniaks in and around Srebrenica. ...

CIVIL LIBERTIES: BANNED - From 1 August 2005: no permit - no protest

| Feature | July - August 2005

On 1 July, substantial new restrictions on protest around Parliament came into force, the breaking of which becomes an arrestable offence from 1 August. ...