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UPCOMING ANTI WAR ACTIVITY

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Black and white prints of you, the people, fighting against war.

The Tron Church, Royal Mile, Edinburgh 1st - 30th April

Info: Rodolphe 0131 556 8138


ACTION AGAINST THE WAR is a network of people who recognise the need for direct action against the war, it includes folk involved in ACE, Edinburgh CITY, other groups and individuals in no group.

We are meeting regularly, organising actions regularly and producing written material, posters, stickers etc..

Our new bulletin headlined WHO NEEDS WAR? (2 sides of A4) is available free from ACE, please take copies to distribute. Also available in ACE, legal info leaflet, assorted anti war stickers and a Scottish Anarchist leaflet against the war.

Contact ACTION AGAINST THE WAR, c/o Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh (ACE), 17 West Montgomery Place (off Brunswick Rd) Edinburgh EH7 5HA  TEL 0131 557 6242   ACE is open tuesdays 1-4pm and sundays 2-6pm

Also, 10am - 8pm weekdays, for information and to report arrests, you can ring 555 5165.  Please note this is not a press office, nor can they offer legal advice - they are collating information.


 

FOR ANTI WAR ARRESTS....

recommended solicitors Wilson McLeod office hours (0131) 556 0055

mobiles  07860 844 331   -   07885 491 096 -   07831 381 366  -  07774 156 941

if arrested ask the police to call Wilson McLeod, if outside office hours ask them to call their mobiles.


past:

28th March

Critical Mass

Meet 5pm at Hunter Square. Critical mass is a human powered wheeled demo - please come on bikes, scooters and skateboard. Bring things to make noise, flags and placards.

WED 2nd April

School students meeting 7.30pm Quakermeeting house, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Stop the War coalition organising meeting 7.30pm sharp Theatre workshop, Hamilton Place  (as meeting is upstairs they have to lock the outside door after meeting starts so best to get there early / on time)

THURS 3rd

STOP THE WAR STOP THE CITY

WHOSE STREETS?  OUR STREETS  WHOSE WORLD? OUR WORLD

meet 12 noon in front of Marks and Spencers / BHS , near Scott monument on Princes St., Edinburgh

Bring banners, placards, flags, whistles, drums, instruments, pots and pans and spoons to bang and anything thatmakes a noise.... not to mention imagination and determination...this is a DIY demo so please bring what you hope to find...... We invite the participation of all who recognise the need for direct action to stop the slaughter

called by ACTION AGAINST THE WAR  0131 5576242

Thursday 3rd April

Take Action Against the War Effort

Gather noon prompt on Princes St in front of Marks and Spencers - British Home Stores (nearly opposite Scott Monument)

We invite all who oppose this madness to strike and take action against the war and loss of life on all sides. It can no longer be business as usual. Take over the streets -- Whose streets? Our streets!

Whose world? Our world!

Make some noise: bring whistles, warrants, drums and friends... be heard.

Useful info: A handful of arrests during the last five demonstrations. In the unlikely event the you find yourself detained, we have included the telephone number of a sympathetic solicitor. Beltrami & Berlow: 0131 554 0999

 

Sat April 5th 12.00 noon

Protest / Blockade of Grangemouth Oil Refinery ( BP ), Grangemouth 12 noon

March from Polmont Station on main Glasgow-Edinburgh line at 11.45am  Bring banners & placards
Assemble Waverley Station 10.30am for departure on 11.00 train (4 travel for the price of 2, price is less than £4.00 return)

BP is 20 mins stroll downhill.  Bring banners, sirens , noise makers

Organised by Falkirk Against the War

and Edinburgh Stop The War coalition  0131 538 0257 or 0780 3244 739  www.edinburghstw.org.uk

CALL FOR A MASS BLOCKADE OF GRANGEMOUTH OIL TERMINAL - SAT APR 5TH 12.00 NOON

Bush and Blair's ever-changing justifications for this war hide the fact that drive to war is massively motivated by the US goal of dominating as much as possible of the world's oil resources. Bush himself is in the pocket of the major US oil giants, who are just aching to get their hands on Iraq's vast oil reserves.

Edinburgh and Falkirk Stop the War Coalitions therefore call for Scottish-wide support for a mass blockade of the Grangemouth oil refinery to protest against this murderous war for Iraq's oil. Why should the oil companies make massive profits from the illegal invasion of Iraq? TRANSPORT: Train to Polmont station on main Glasgow-Edinburgh railway line 25 minutes from either city.


"Wave-in" & postcard writing - Protest this absurd charge!
Mass "Criminal Activity" on Princes Street
Fri April 4th 5.00pm  East end of Princes St at Waterloo Statue
Following a recent demonstration, one young man was arrested and charged with "incitement to racial hatred" for carrying a defaced US flag. His version of the Stars & Stripes was different from the one that US marines raised recently on Iraqi soil: it was upside down, carried the words "F*** Bush", and had a reverse swastika superimposed on the "stars" part of the emblem of US militarism.
We have just received thousands of postcard facsimiles of the offending flag, courtesy of the inimitable Mark Thomas, and invite you to a wave-in on Princes Street between 5pm and 6pm on Friday (tomorrow).
*Bring along a small, light stick or rolled up piece of paper to assemble your own flag, and/or
*Help to string postcard bunting around the Waterloo Statue area, and/or
*Write out a message on one of the postcards and we will deliver them together to the Procurator Fiscal's office at 29 Chambers Street

background:

Activist Simon was arrested in Edinburgh on 22nd March for displaying an upside-down US flag emblazoned with the words "Fuck Bush" and a swastika design.

The arresting officers said that Simon's flag was likely to "incite racial hatred" despite the message being aimed at George W. Bush and his administration and not the American people.

Copies of the flag have been produced as postcards and some think it would be a good idea to send these postcards to the arresting officers (details below).

Some believe it is "just the police trying it on, trying to hassle demonstrators now the bombing has begun. I think its a ridiculous charge and the police should be shown that loads of people agree with that."

A wave-in was held on Edinburghs Princes Street between 5pm and 6pm on Friday Fri April 4th 5.00pm East end of Princes St at Waterloo Statue
*the postcards were held by or stuck on people attending demo.
*postcards were strung on bunting around the Waterloo Statue

The coppers in attendance were just those in uniform just observed like poets and did not follow the lead of their special branch plain cloths collegues in hitting and restaining in painfull wrist locks any of those displaying the defaced american flag, as done with Simon on March 22nd. (note it was then a uniform officer who than came in and cuffed simon after a long minute or so, but this would not have happened if not for actions of plain cloths officers).

Hopefully the charges will be dropped.

Some ask for you to download the postcard design and send them off to:

PC Phillip Gachagan & PC Lawrence Mackintosh,
St. Leonards Police Station,
Divisional Headquarters
14 St. Leonards Street
EDINBURGH
EH8 9QW.

Tel. No. (0131) 662-5000

more info and flag design


FRI 11th April

Rock against War at the Venue, proceeds to Edinburgh Stop the War coalition

rockagainstwar.org


SAT 12th April

Anti war demos in both Glasgow and London

Glasgow, Blythswood Square; 11.30


Wed 15th April

Operating Theatre of No Anaesthetic

invites you to act against the occupation of iraq

Waverley Plaza (Princes Mail) Wednesday 16 April 12 noon

Bring Sounds! Drums! Voices! Wear Costume / Scarves / Black ....

 


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