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TIME TO GO

•National Demonstration Manchester
•Saturday 23 September • 1pm
•Labour Party Conference

•TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ
•DON'T ATTACK IRAN
•HANDS OFF LEBANON
•NO TRIDENT REPLACEMENT
Organised by Stop the War Coalition, CND, BMI and MAB, and supported by Islam Channel, Friends of Al Aqsa, CWU, PCS, NUJ, TGWU, RMT, BECTU, UCU

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Bring the streets of Baghdad to Manchester The United Nations has just announced that 6600 people have been killed in Iraq in the last two months. This will be much lower than the actual figure, as many deaths go unreported because of the Muslim practice of burying the dead within 24 hours.

To symbolise this appalling carnage resulting from Bush and Blair's illegal war in Iraq, we are organising a MASS DIE-IN, for those who wish to participate, as a feature of the TIME TO GO demonstration in Manchester on Saturday 23 September. We want to stress that joining the die-in is of course entirely voluntary. For those who wish to participate, we are asking that they bring a white sheet or clothe to lie on, if possible with splashes of red poster paint on it. Our aim is for a few minutes to symbolise as graphically as we can the horrific levels of violent death which now characterise daily life in Baghdad and many other towns and cities in Iraq.

We will hold the die-in at around 2.30pm, when we anticipate our march will completely encircle the G-Mex Centre, where the Labour Conference is taking place. The march stewards will announce the die-in to the marchers. The die-in will last a few minutes.

The die-in in Manchester on 23 September will be a reminder to the Labour delegates at their party's conference that they have a responsibility, as they discuss the fate of Tony Blair next week, to ensure that his wars are brought to an end before any more Iraqis die at an average rate of over 100 every day

Time to Go public Meetings

TIME TO GO PUBLIC MEETINGS with speakers such as Tony Benn, Craig Murray, John McDonnell MP, George Galloway MP, Mark Steel and many other prominent voices from the anti-war movement are being held in the weeks up to the demonstration. »Find the meeting in your town

Get involved

Help build support for the Manchester demonstration. For posters, leaflets, stickers etc, or to get involved with your local Stop the War Group, contact:
Stop the War Coalition
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Phone 020 7278 6694

How to build support

LOCAL STOP THE WAR AND PEACE GROUPS
Build support for the demonstration throughout the Summer with:
•Public meetings
•Street stalls
•Visits to workplaces, community centres, mosques, churches etc
•Press conferences at which local MPs, councillors, trade union officials, celebrities give their support to the demo (send details of supporters to the StWC national office)
•The widest possible distribution of leaflets, stickers etc (available now from the Stop the War office)Encourage new people to get actively involved in the anti-war movement. Think of imaginative ways to raise the profile of the demonstration. One group is already planning a feeder MARCH FOR PEACE across the Pennines to join the demo in Manchester.Book coaches now. The Stop the War office is already getting requests for information about transport. This shouldn't be left to the last minute. The selling of seat tickets should start immediately. No one should be able to say they weren't at the demonstration because they didn't have transport. Groups in the same area should plan the co-ordination of pickup points for people living in outlying districts.

TRADE UNIONS
Fourteen national trade unions are affiliated to Stop the War (see http://tinyurl.com/ofdzk). Dozens of local trade union branches and local trade union councils are also affiliated. Local trade unionists should:
•Get union branches to vote support for the TIME TO GO demonstration. This is already happening in Manchester, where the NUJ, TGWU and City College UCU have all voted to support.
•Get local union branches and trades councils to circulate the demonstration details to all their members and to hold meetings on the Iraq war.
•Visit workplaces with leaflets

INDIVIDUALS
Everyone one of us can plan now to be in Manchester on 23 September and encourage our families, friends, work colleagues, fellow college and school students etc to join the TIME TO GO demonstration. If you want to get involved in a local Stop the War or peace group, contact the national StWC office for details of the nearest group to where you live or study.

If there is no Stop the War group near you, consider starting one with your friends. You will be surprised at the positive response you get. A regular Saturday street stall is a good place to start. The StWC national office will help with resources and advice.
Telephone 020 7278 6694
Email office@stopwar.org.uk

NEED PERSUADING IT'S TIME TO GO?
If you're not convinced that it's time for all foreign troops to leave Iraq and time for the Iraqi people to be free to decide for themselves how their country should be governed, here is an article describing the reality of what the Bush/Blair invasion has brought to Iraq.

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