[IMC-UK-Features] Feature proposal

Thu Oct 9 04:23:11 PDT 2008

hi,

thanks to all who have worked on this feature then read it then reworked
on it. I would some changes too:

I would put all references to the demonstration that still has not
happened at the end of this feature.

and i would take out the local contacts for transport for the demonstration.

.. and I assume that the abstract goes only as far as the links and the
rest of it would go in the "body" i.e. visible after you click on "read
more"?

I do think strongly that without these changes this can not go on the
front page...

thanks again

ana

thewallmustfall at riseup.net wrote:
> ok
>
> added to the 'content' (see below)
>
> and sorted out the 1st person bit
>
> <p>
> <strong>Every bomb that is dropped and every bullet that is fired in the
> name of this war of terror has to be made somewhere and wherever that is
> it can be resisted...</strong></p>
> <p>
> Since 2001 over a million people have been killed worldwide by the US-UK
> War of Terror.<a href="http://www.mbmtech.co.uk/"> EDO MBM/ITT </a> supply
> weapons components for the US-UK war machine.<a
> href="www.smashedo.org.uk"> Smash EDO </a> has been campaigning for four
> and a half years to close down EDO.</p>
> <p>
> The movement against EDO MBM/ITT is growing, in June this year over 600
> people came from around the country to the
> <http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400163.html>‘Carnival Against the
> Arms Trade’ </a>. The Carnival managed to reach the Brighton bomb factory
> despite police attempts to stop us!
> <p>
> <strong>Resources:</strong> <a
> href="http://www.smashedo.org.uk/shut-itt.htm">Webpage for the Shut ITT
> Demonstration - Info on accomodation and transport</a> | <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/10/409883.html"> Open Letter to
> Sussex Police</a> | <a
> href="http://www.smashedo.org.uk/resources/colouredflyer2006.pdf">More
> Info about the Smash EDO Campaign (pdf)</a> | <a
> href="http://www.smashedo.org.uk/resources/edo&itt.pdf">Info about the
> Merger with ITT (pdf)</a></p>
> <p>
> <strong>Links:</strong> <a href="www.smashedo.org.uk">Smash EDO</a> | <a
> href="http://www.mbmtech.co.uk/">EDO MBM</a> | <a
> href="/en/actions/2008/edo/">Smash EDO Indymedia topic page</a>|<a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/405497.html">Shutt ITT My
> Space page</a></p>
> <p>
> <strong>Previous features:</strong> <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400163.html"> Smash EDO
> Carnival Against the Arm Trade - Timeline </a>|<a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399714.html"> Carnival
> Against the Arms Trade </a>|<a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400604.html"> Marie Vesco RIP
> </a>|<a href="/en/2008/03/394558.html">On the Verge - The Film They Tried
> to Ban</a> |<a href="/en/2007/10/383372.html">Singers Arrested Outside
> Arms Factory</a> | <a href="/en/2007/08/379681.html">Smash EDO Action
> Camp: Shut down the Brighton bomb builders</a> | <a
> href="/en/2007/07/374989.html">Lebanon War protesters - Not Guilty!</a> |
> <a href="/en/2007/02/362939.html">EDO CORP: 2006 Alternative Report</a> |
> <a href="/en/2007/01/360710.html">2007 Is The Year To Shut EDO Down</a> |
> <a href="/en/2006/02/334463.html">EDO MBM Injunction crumbles</a> | <a
> href="/en/2005/08/320702.html">EDO MBM desperate to stop protests as
> resistance increases</a> | <a href="/en/2005/06/313576.html">Smash EDO
> Take On The Law</a> | <a href="/en/2005/04/308039.html">Harassment Law
> Used Against Anti-War Campaigners</a> | <a
> href="/en/2005/01/303864.html">Campaign to Smash Edo</a> | <a
> href="/en/2004/05/292127.html">Arms company shut down</a></p>
>
> On October 15th campaigners will gather at EDO/MBM ITT for a mass demo
> against the arms trade. The meeting point is 12 noon opposite Falmer
> Station next to the stone sign leading to the Sussex University
> campus.</p>
> <p>
> Activists from around the country are expected to travel to Brighton for
> the demonstration. Accomodation will be provided around Brighton and a
> meeting for those going on the demonstration will be held on Tuesday
> evening. Those thinking of coming are encouraged to get there for the
> meeting on Tuesday and to come in affinity groups who are willing to work
> together at the demonstration.</p>
> <p>
> Since the successful Carnival Against the Arms Trade in June the campaign
> has continued against the bomb factory with weekly noise demonstrations
> being held outside the factory gates. Police repression has increased with
> <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/07/404919.html?c=on#c200811">
> five people being arrested for incidents alleged at the carnival </a>,and
> <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/08/406698.html">
> five activists have been put on trial for conspiracy to cause criminal
> damage </a>. <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/07/404578.html">
> Sussex police have continued their misuse of council byelaws to try to
> restrict the use of noise by protesters at the factory </a>. A musical
> protest was held in defiance of the arrests and one man was arrested for
> <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/08/407225.html">
> playing an anti-war reworking of "Waltzing Matilda".</a> Sussex police 
> also <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/southcoast/2008/06/402063.html">
> showed up in full riot gear </a> to a critical mass protest in
> commemoration of the death of <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400604.html"> Marie
> Vesco,</a> who was killed en route to the 'Carnival Against the Arms
> Trade'.</p>
> <p>
> EDO MBM's second factory in Fishersgate has closed down since the carnival
> but EDO/MBM/ITT has finally begun <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/08/407351.html"> full production
> of the Paveway IV </a> system, a guided bomb which is integral to the US
> and UK's military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan. </p>
> <p>
> On October 15th Smash EDO will take to the streets again. The movement
> against EDO is growing. We will be here unitl EDO MBM/ITT isn't </p>
> <p>
> local contacts for transport to the demonstration:</p>
> <p>
> Nottingham - contact at nottsantimilitarism.org.uk
>
> Sheffield - sheffield at af-north.org
>
> Bath - bathactivistnet at yahoo.co.uk
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>> thewallmustfall at riseup.net wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> is there a problem with highlghting the demo. It is a large mobilisation
>>>
>>> it is designed to be linked to a news ticker for the mobilisation nearer
>>> to the time
>>>       
>> That wasn't quite the question though. It's barely more than a press
>> release, and shouldn't I think be written in the 1st person /as the
>> campaign/ (Our, us).
>>
>> It's not like there's a shortage of article it's could link to:
>> /en/2008/07/404919.html
>> /en/2008/07/405029.html
>> /en/2008/08/406409.html
>> /en/2008/08/407683.html
>> /en/2008/10/409883.html
>> /en/2008/10/409957.html
>>
>> l'n'r,
>> Jeff
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