STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK [Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . Greetings one and all, Firstly many thanks to Housmans Peace Resource Project for reminding me of this important posting below. Secondly, while striving to keep an open mind even 7 days before the British electorate cast their vote I am compelled to ask if, in the form of Helen John we have discovered one western politician upon whom we can wholeheartedly place our confidence? Should that be the case shall we proffer our unreserved support? Should we present the case to others further afield? Democratically, Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:05 AM Subject: Re: Star Wars UK: Prisoner Contests Prime Minister in Gener To: "STOP NATO: iNO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 04:34:02 Subject: Re: Star Wars UK: Prisoner Contests Prime Minister in Gener Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's at least one obvious error here...... > Send reply to: "STOP NATO: iNO PASARAN!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Bill Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > Subject: Star Wars UK: Prisoner Contests Prime Minister in General Election [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > Date sent: Sat, 26 May 2001 02:18:07 +0100 > > STOP NATO: !NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > > --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- > Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > [Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] > . > . > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mindspring.com> > Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 3:31 PM > Subject: BLAIR ELECTION RIVAL CONTINUES CAMPAIGN FROM PRISON > > > PRESS RELEASE : > HELEN JOHN CONTINUES CAMPAIGN AGAINST TONY BLAIR FROM NEW PRISON > > Vote Helen John, Ind. > Sedgefield Constituency > NO STAR WARS > Campaign Tel. No. 01943-468393 > [There is television footage of John's election announcement, made at the > International Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space > conference, Leeds, UK, available through: > Lynn Ferguson, Mobile No. 078-8921-7446. Members of the press wishing to > speak to Ms John may make their request directly to the Askham Grange > Women's Prison on 01904-704236.] > > Helen John and Anne Lee, the Menwith Hill peace women given a long custodial > sentence for stlg300 of damage to the fence at the Star Wars base in North > Yorkshire, have been transferred to Askham Grange open women's prison. > Please write to them there from now on. Any post sent to Low Newton should > be forwarded to them at the new location eventually. The new address is: > Askham Grange Women's Prison, Askham Richard, York YO2 3FT, England. Ms > John is to be supplied with special communications facilities to allow her > to continue the campaign from within prison. She is not disqualified from > running because of a three month sentence. People are only disqualified as > candidates if they get a prison sentence of a year or more. > > Helen John, who is standing as a parliamentary candidate in Prime Minister > Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency, was given a prison sentence six times > the normal length for damage at this level. Anne Lee, who only has four > previous convictions, was given four times the normal sentence length, even > though the judge said they were "valuable members of society." Please send > letters of protest about their imprisonment, and about ballistic missile > defence, to: The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, MP for Sedgefield, 10 Downing St., > London SW1AA 2AA. Helen has applied to the prison governor for a day > release so that she will be able to attend the election count on 7 June, as > is her democratic right as a standing parliamentary candidate. Several women > > from the campaign, as well as local supporters, will also attend on the > evening. You can recognise us because we'll be wearing the white, green > and purple sashes, like the suffragettes, who also went to prison to protect > our rights. > > This Saturday, 26 May, peace campaigners will meet in the constituency to > continue canvassing the Sedgefield voters. They will be meeting at 1pm in > the car park of the Newton Aycliffe Youth Centre, just off the A1 south of > Durham. All peace campaigners are welcome to join us. We will also go out > again on the following Saturday. > > A text version of Helen John's election communication to the 38,000 > Sedgefield constituents follows. The address will be posted out this coming > week. > > In England, the fact that she is running against Tony Blair in Tony Blair's > constituency does not mean she is running for Prime Minister, as Prime > Ministers here are not directly elected. The party with the largest number > of seats chooses the Prime Minister, usually the leader of that party. Ms > John's candidacy is a serious challenge to the government, however. Labour > has a 25,000 majority in the 38,000 member constituency. It isn't a 38,000-member (presumably this anyway means 38,000- elector?) constituency - the number of electors registered in the constituency is considerably higher than this, probably at least twice as many (I don't have the exact figures to hand). (Also, the figure for TB's majority sounds suspiciously high - but I'm less sure about that.) > This means that > substantial numbers of people, disillusioned with Mr Blair's Conservative > policies, will feel free to vote for Ms John without fearing a return of the > people who actually call themselves Conservatives. Even if (when?) Mr Blair > loses his seat to Ms John, the polls say Labour will win enough seats in > Parliament to form a government. > > Protests against Ms John and Ms Lee's harsh prison sentences are being sent > in from several Scandanavian countries, the United States, Australia and > Argentina, as well as throughout the UK. Some people are sending letters of > protest to their local English Embassy. Mr Blair will never be able to say > that ballistic missile defence was not raised as an election issue. > > The Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp[aign] would also like to send messages > of solidarity to the other anti-nuclear protesters facing prison at this > time, including Bonnie Urfer and Michael Sprong in Wisconsin, who caused > several thousand pounds of damage to a Trident communications facility > [Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]; Fr. Carl Kabat, in Colorado, who damaged a > nuclear silo [Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]; Susan van der Hijden (32), from > Amsterdam, and Father Martin Newell (33), who were found guilty of stlg31,000 > pounds of damage to a nuclear convoy truck but already served their six > months' term [Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]], and all those citizens of > Vieques who are currently imprisoned there for protesting against US > military insanity [Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]. Regular information about all > imprisoned peace protesters can be found on the following website: > http://www.nonviolence.org/nukeresister/ > AB. _________________________________________________ | | | From: | | Albert Beale, Housmans Peace Resource Project | | 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1, UK | | Tel +44-20-7278 4474 Fax +44-20-7278 0444 | | E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | The Project produces the World Peace Database | | which includes up-to-date contact details for | | over 3000 peace and related organisations, in | | more than 170 countries. | |_________________________________________________| ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
