Naming the Dead (11/09/2009)

On September 11th 2009, some of us met in the Guildhall square for an understated Naming the Dead ceremony. We read out names of those killed on both sides in the Iraq war, and reaffirmed the human cost of this ongoing war for oil.

We placed a wreath at the memorial to the dead of World War II and held a minute's silence.

Below is a montage of speakers and the wreath laying.

Find Vestas – and organise a protest on or before Wednesday

On the Vestas website there is a handy little map that helps you to find their offices nearest to you (admittedly, in some parts of the world, that could be several hundred miles away). See their global reach and maybe organise a protest… they are taking the Newport, IoW occupiers to court this Wednesday 29 July.

The occupiers – or, more likely, their representatives appear at Newport County Court at 10.15 am. There will be a support demonstration outside the court.

Wherever you are, if you do hold a protest or a meeting or just get together with a group of friends to talk about this, please send us a picture or a report. You can email it to savevestas@googlemail.com or post it as a comment.

Don’t forget to sign the petitions: 10 Downing Street website and Friends of the Earth website.

[Republished from Save Vestas blog]

Anti-Fascist Day of Action

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Meet by the fountain in Commercial Road, at 12:30 on Saturday the 24th of May.

There will be a rally, then we'll get into groups to leaflet the city against the BNP.






(If I can
get hold of a
copy of the
leaflet, I'll
post it here.)

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And Our Friends are All Aboard

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Footage of some members of Pompey Resistance at the protest against Israel's bombing of Gaza. January 10th 2009.

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anti-terror billboard

anti-terror billboard
Originally uploaded by Robbie G1

What Would Socialism Look Like?

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This is an audio recording of a public meeting on April 2nd 2009, on "What Would Socialism Look Like?".

John Molyneux outlines what a future socialist society might look like, then there questions and discussion from the floor, and finally John summarises the issues, giving his answers to the questions.

This was intended to be a video record of the event, but there were serious problems synchronising the audio stream with the video. As time was short, it was decided to publish as audio only.

Click the play button to stream the recording.


Click here to download the audio in MP3 format.

Discussion begins at roughly the 30 minute mark, and John's summing up at 55. This is an experiment, and somewhat rough. If it works, we'll do more, and get it better.

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