Mon 14 May  - Open Organising Meeting - stop the racists & Nazis in Edinburgh

7 pm Augustine United Church, 41 George IV Bridge, EH1 1EL

The Scottish Defence League (SDL) have been refused permission to march in Edinburgh on May 26. BUT they will almost certainly be allowed to hold  “static protest” at a city centre location. We do not know the venue or the time yet. And SDL look likely to go to challenge the ban on their march in the High Court , so they could be granted a march at the last minute.

Please go along to this meeting to help organise a response.
Organised by UAF Edinburgh supported by Edinburgh Stop the War
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Background

Stop the War is concerned at reports that plans are being drawn up for an attack on Iran. The case being made for war on Iran is based on a series of speculations about 'undisclosed nuclear-related activities' reminiscent of the disproven 'intelligence' about weapons of mass destruction used to justify the disastrous attack on Iraq. Robert Kelley, a former US weapons scientists who ran the IAEA action team on Iraq at the time of the US-led invasion, said there were worrying parallels between the west's mistakes over Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction then and the IAEA's assessment of Iran now. (Guardian, 22^nd March). The US and its allies remain silent about Israel's covert nuclear arsenal, the only one in the Middle East, while they are tightening the campaign of sanctions against Iran without real evidence. Such an attitude, combined with threats of military action, can only serve to isolate and antagonise Iran. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had disastrous consequences including the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians and the displacement of millions. Any attack on Iran would risk a wave of destruction across the region.

We are asking individuals and organizations to sign their names to the following pledge.

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Pledge

I/we am/are deeply concerned by reports that plans are being drawn up for an attack on Iran. I/we am/are opposed to military intervention in Iran whether by the US, UK, Israel or their allies and support the Stop the War Coalition’s campaign to ensure that the British Government does not assist or participate in any such military intervention.

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