to refrain from settlement activities. 2001; US vetoed condemnations of Israeli acts of terror against Palestinians. Pocketing the cash Israel's brutal regime is fully bankrolled by the US, and has been since the 1950's. Over the past few years the US has provided military funding for Israel to develop its weapons programme including;
$1.3 billion to develop the Lavi aircraft $200 million to develop the Merkava tank
$130 million to develop laser anti tank systems
In 2002 the US provided $2.04 billion in military grants Bob Whitehead demonstration. seven coaches down on February 15th - an impressive tesof growth of the anti-war movement. showing on Wednesday 26th February. Last September, the Stirchley, Birmingham branch of the ted. Coalition to Stop the War took one coach to the London
After months of regular street activity, public and planning meetings, lobbying politicians and other activity, it took timony to sustained hard work and an indication of the size
Unlike the unhappy experience of the Coalition in other parts of the city, the Stirchley group has always combined activity with openness and free debate, a model of how things should be done. It is now planning its follow up work derful day. after the demonstration, which commenced with a film
Another welcome development was the apparent slight thawing of control of the all-Birmingham Coalition at its last meeting, with open attendance and debate being permitThe focus was to build for the local demonstration on Ist March, where the Council and police were proving very obstructive. Impressions of the New York Anti-War Demonstration Sandy Boyer IT WAS FREEZING cold. The cops kept most people from reaching our Irish-Americans Against The War'contingent. I couldn't hear a word any speaker said. And it was a wonAt about 8:30 am I got on the subway deep in Brooklyn. The closer we got to the rally, the more crowded the train became. When we finally got to 5 Ist Street, the stop for the rally, it seemed as if the whole train got out. I was struck by Impeach Bush. how young they all looked - most seemed to be in the early 20s or even younger. Many people were carrying han lettered signs with slogans like "No War for Oil' an
By 10:30 the cops told us we had to move over to Fir Avenue where the rally was assembling or they woul arrest us. We got as far as 53rd Street, still two blocks nort of the speakers' platform, but that was as far as we coul move. This was still almost an hour and a half before th rally was supposed to start. By the time someone with oL banner reached us, there was no room to unfurl it.
We just kept telling each other how great it was and ma velling at how many people turned out. The cops woul later claim it was only 100,000 but not even the medi believed them. One cop told a reporter 500,000. Ther were probably more like a million counting everyone wh was blocked from reaching the actual rally.
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