An opportunity to make our presence felt on the streets and amongst the antiwar crowd, and for some of us in the north, at least, to unfurl our banners.We've got two beautiful big banners that have made a showing down in London once, but very little else. As a campaign, we seriously need to get back out on the street
We might even have something going on in Iran by then.

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DEMONSTRATE AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER ASSEMBLE 12.30PM ALL SAINTS, CAVENDISH STREET, MANCHESTER M15 The Stop the War Coalition is calling on all its members and supporters to turn the Manchester Troops Out demonstration on Saturday 20 September, (the eve of the Labour Party annual national conference), into the biggest possible protest against this government's continuing participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq war remains a disaster. Politicians and generals talk up the success of the 'surge', but Iraqis are still dying in large numbers every week. People lack clean water, electricity, and a working health system because the country has been wrecked by occupation. The majority of Iraqis want foreign troops to go, but the US and its allies are insisting on permanent military bases and the US control of Iraqi oil. Meanwhile we are told Afghanistan is ‘the good war’. The facts tell a different story. Aid agencies announced last week that violence in Afghanistan has reached its worst level since 2001. This is reflected in the rising death toll of British troops, now averaging two per week. The media hardly mention the number of Afghan dead, but it is rising fast partly because bombing raids have been stepped up. As the joint NGO statement from ACBAR, released last week, says: NATO air strikes are up 40 per cent on last year and "searches conducted by Afghan and international forces have on some occasions involved excessive use of force, extra judicial killings, destruction of property and/or mistreatment of suspects". SEE http://www.acbar.org/ The UN also reports that the violence is making aid efforts almost impossible at a time when drought and high food prices are forcing thousands into life-threatening poverty. While supporters of the war in the west talk of reconstruction, on the ground the few schools and clinics that have been functioning are being threatened with closure by the violence caused by occupation. It is a disgrace that New Labour is still supporting these wars. Gordon Brown has promised to schedule getting the troops out of Iraq, but there are still thousands there and the government has increased its war budget this year. The billions being spent on war could be used to invest in housing, pensions and services. For all these reasons Stop the War is calling for the widest possible support for the demonstration at Labour's conference on 20 September. Please tell your friends and workmates about it. Transport details and a leaflet publicising the demonstration are available on the website, SEE http://www.stopwar.org.uk/[/quote]

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