{"id":2446,"date":"2012-07-02T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2012-07-26T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T22:08:47","slug":"norwich-stop-the-war-coalition-public-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Norwich Stop the War Coalition Public Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p id=\"yui_3_2_0_28_1341263109687680\">SPEAKERS:<\/p>\n<p>MITRA QAYOOM<strong> (Afghans for Peace)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>IAN GIBSON <\/strong><strong>(former Norwich MP)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WEDNESDAY 25<sup>TH<\/sup> JULY 7PM <\/strong><strong>THE CUBE IN THE FORUM, MILLENNIUM PLAIN, NORWICH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>PUBLIC MEETING \u2013 ALL WELCOME\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Admission Free\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <!--more--><\/strong><br \/>\nObama and Karzai (Afghanistan\u2019s so-called president) say the war will end<br \/>\nin 2014, while stating simultaneously that American troops will remain in<br \/>\nsome capacity until 2024. As that year approaches will they then say they<br \/>\nmean to remain until 2034?<\/p>\n<p>Former Afghan MP Malalai Joya says that \u201cthe reality is that the US and<br \/>\nits Nato allies plan to dominate Afghanistan and the larger region<br \/>\nmilitarily for the next generation\u201d in order \u201cto control our energy and<br \/>\nmineral resources, and maintain military superiority over China and other<br \/>\ncompetitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also states that \u201cno one can believe leaders like Obama who say they<br \/>\nare working for peace even as they continue the bombings, night raids and<br \/>\ndrone attacks that kill civilians every week \u2013 sometimes every day \u2013 in<br \/>\nAfghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 2009 Nato bombing killed some 150 people in Farah province which<br \/>\nJoya represented as an MP from 2005. She asks how Obama and his wife\u201d<br \/>\nwould feel if their daughters were killed in this senseless and brutal<br \/>\nmanner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TEN YEARS OF WAR IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. COME AND HEAR OUR SPEAKERS CALL FOR<br \/>\nAN END TO THE WAR NOW.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Stone<br \/>\nConvenor, Norwich Stop the War Coalition<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 SPEAKERS: MITRA QAYOOM (Afghans for Peace) IAN GIBSON (former Norwich MP)\u00a0 WEDNESDAY 25TH JULY 7PM THE CUBE IN THE FORUM, MILLENNIUM PLAIN, NORWICH \u00a0PUBLIC MEETING \u2013 ALL WELCOME\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Admission Free\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}