Jonathan Neale to speak in Belfast

antrim | anti-war / imperialism | press release

Monday August 25, 2003 13:40

by Dan Buckley - GR Belfast

THE MOVEMENT AGAINST WAR
FROM VIETNAM TO IRAQ
WITH JONATHAN NEALE,
AUTHOR OF THE AMERICAN WAR: VIETNAM 1960-75
7.30pm Queens Common Room
1 College Gardens, Belfast
For more info email grbelfast@yahoo.co.uk

Writer and activist Jonathan Neale will be speaking in Belfast about the resistance to war internationally and comparing it to the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.
As the so-called liberation of Iraq continues people all across the world, yet alone Iraq, are seeing this war as one of occupation for oil interests and not for “democracy”. At the same time the anti-war movement is on the move again. On September 27th hundreds of thousands of people across Europe will take to the streets again in resistance to the war, including Belfast.
This meeting is a brilliant time to take stock and learn from previous mass anti-war movements and see how we can get the other world that is so desperately needed.
For those of you who don’t know Jonathan: he has been active in Globalise Resistance in Britain since its birth and has also played roles in the Genoa Social Forum which organised 300,000 people to demonstrate against the G8. He has also written several books including 'The American war: Vietnam 1960-1975' and also 'You are G8, We are 6 Billion' which is his personal account of the Genoa demonstrations last year.