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University of Salford, UK. 11th September 2005. A one day Conference Against International Terrorism takes place. The conference begins with two minutes silence in memory of all victims of terror whether it be perpetrated by Al Qaeda or Western-sponsored state terrorism. The conference takes place on the thirty second anniversary of the 1973 CIA-backed military coup in Chile and the fourth anniversary of the 9-11 attack on Wall Street and the Pentagon.

Mark Curtis is a former Research Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and was until recently Director of the World Development Movement. He has worked in the field of international development for the past 12 years, including as Head of Policy at the non-governmental organisations, Christian Aid and ActionAid. Curtis is the author of several important books about the hyprocrisy and deceit of the British Establishment. These include Unpeople: Britain's Secret Human Rights Abuses and Web of Deceit: Britain's Real Role in the World. His speech further exposes the hypocrisy of Western governments over the issue of terrorism and presents a potted history of assassinations of progressive Third World leaders carried out by British agents. He refers to the statements of various whistleblowers on this subject.

By Chris Edwards
Manchester, England. 12th July 2008. Greater Manchester Stop the War coalition discusses a forthcoming demonstration on 20th September 2008.

National Stop the War coalition convenor Lindsey German speaks at the event. This clip shows her introductory remarks and also her summing up speech and response to the discussion.

The clip also shows Manchester Stop the War Coalition's representative on the national steering committee, Ron Senchak, making a brief contribution.

The demonstration is timed to coincide with the annual Labour Party conference which is held in Manchester. The theme of the demonstration is the unacceptable cost of war.

Filmed by Chris Edwards
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Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia takes place in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend the period of detention without charge from 28 days to 43 days. Playwright David Edgar is seen in this clip speaking at the rally.

Filmed by Chris Edwards
Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia takes place in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend the period of detention without charge from 28 days to 42 days.

This clip shows Nottingham University Ph.D research student, Rizwaan Sabir, talking about his brief arrest by the police as a suspected "terrorist". He is researching the nature of political Islam and downloaded an Al Qaeda manual from the US department of Justice web-site as part of his research. He emailed the manual to a friend, Hicham Yezza, asking him to print it off on his behalf. This was reported to the police. His friend is now being deported to Algeria as a result. In this clip, he explains what happened during this absurd example of Islamophobia.

Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally takes pace against Islamophobia in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend detention without charge (internment) from 28 days to 42 days.

This clips shows former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg, speaking at the rally. He was detained for 3 years and released without apology or explanation.

Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia is held at the Friends Meeting House.

This clip shows Manchester Stop the War Coalition chair Nahella Ashraf speaking at the rally.

Manchester, England. 6th June 2008. Alan Hart, writer and former BBC/ITN broadcaster, speaks at a rally on the 60th anniversary of al Nakba (the catastrophe). The catastrophe was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionists (with the connivance of Britain) in 1948 to make way for the Israeli state.

The rally forms part of a weekend of Palestinian cultural and political events to celebrate that fact that Palestine lives on despite the attempts to wipe it off the map.
By Chris Edwards:
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Manchester, England. 6th June 2008. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé speaks at a rally sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign on the anniversary of al Nakba (the catastrophe). The catastrophe was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians carried out by the Zionists to establish the state of Isreal in 1948. Pappé exposed the suppressed history of this episode in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Pappé was formerly an academic at Haifa University. He now teaches at Exeter University in England.

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