And we can participate by having our own picnics here in the US on the 4th. Let's talk to each other about the meaning of freedom and our share thoughts on independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”. (J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762)
4 July 2008 and Beyond For the Free People of the World
Ladies and Gentlemen, We invite you to join us on 4 July 2008, in solidarity with Binyam Mohamed, a victim of CIA abduction, torture and illegal detention, and now the last Londoner still detained in Guantánamo Bay. Binyam currently faces the prospect of the death penalty in a kangaroo court. His rights and freedoms have been trampled on by the US state, and we demand his freedom and that of other victims of US neo-imperialist policies.
We invite you to share food and your thoughts on freedom with us. Much cherished but much undermined in our times, isn't it time we declared independence from the undemocratic and oppressive structures of rule in the US, UK and EU, and the aggressive large corporations whose sole interests they promote? We think so, and through this simple act of sharing food in public, we hereby call upon the good, free people of the world to show a better way, a new way forward for us all and all our freedoms.
Please join us for our picnic with the London Guantánamo Campaign (regularly demonstrating outside the US Embassy on Friday evenings) and others, in Grosvenor Square, WC1 (nearest tube: Bond Street), from 6-8pm on Friday 4 July, or why not hold your own?
Your freedom or theirs?Project 2012 is a grassroots coalition aiming for human rights compliancy and a democratic EU by 2012.
Declare your independence and reclaim your freedom!
Best wishesProject 2012 and the London Guantánamo Campaign
Please call Mark for more details 07854 390 408 or email london.gtmo@googlemail.com
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Friday, June 27, 2008
A Good Idea from England
And we can participate by having our own picnics here in the US on the 4th. Let's talk to each other about the meaning of freedom and our share thoughts on independence.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”. (J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762)
4 July 2008 and Beyond For the Free People of the World
Ladies and Gentlemen, We invite you to join us on 4 July 2008, in solidarity with Binyam Mohamed, a victim of CIA abduction, torture and illegal detention, and now the last Londoner still detained in Guantánamo Bay. Binyam currently faces the prospect of the death penalty in a kangaroo court. His rights and freedoms have been trampled on by the US state, and we demand his freedom and that of other victims of US neo-imperialist policies.
We invite you to share food and your thoughts on freedom with us. Much cherished but much undermined in our times, isn't it time we declared independence from the undemocratic and oppressive structures of rule in the US, UK and EU, and the aggressive large corporations whose sole interests they promote? We think so, and through this simple act of sharing food in public, we hereby call upon the good, free people of the world to show a better way, a new way forward for us all and all our freedoms.
Please join us for our picnic with the London Guantánamo Campaign (regularly demonstrating outside the US Embassy on Friday evenings) and others, in Grosvenor Square, WC1 (nearest tube: Bond Street), from 6-8pm on Friday 4 July, or why not hold your own?
Your freedom or theirs?Project 2012 is a grassroots coalition aiming for human rights compliancy and a democratic EU by 2012.
Declare your independence and reclaim your freedom!
Best wishesProject 2012 and the London Guantánamo Campaign
Please call Mark for more details 07854 390 408 or email london.gtmo@googlemail.com
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (American Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776)
“Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains”. (J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762)
4 July 2008 and Beyond For the Free People of the World
Ladies and Gentlemen, We invite you to join us on 4 July 2008, in solidarity with Binyam Mohamed, a victim of CIA abduction, torture and illegal detention, and now the last Londoner still detained in Guantánamo Bay. Binyam currently faces the prospect of the death penalty in a kangaroo court. His rights and freedoms have been trampled on by the US state, and we demand his freedom and that of other victims of US neo-imperialist policies.
We invite you to share food and your thoughts on freedom with us. Much cherished but much undermined in our times, isn't it time we declared independence from the undemocratic and oppressive structures of rule in the US, UK and EU, and the aggressive large corporations whose sole interests they promote? We think so, and through this simple act of sharing food in public, we hereby call upon the good, free people of the world to show a better way, a new way forward for us all and all our freedoms.
Please join us for our picnic with the London Guantánamo Campaign (regularly demonstrating outside the US Embassy on Friday evenings) and others, in Grosvenor Square, WC1 (nearest tube: Bond Street), from 6-8pm on Friday 4 July, or why not hold your own?
Your freedom or theirs?Project 2012 is a grassroots coalition aiming for human rights compliancy and a democratic EU by 2012.
Declare your independence and reclaim your freedom!
Best wishesProject 2012 and the London Guantánamo Campaign
Please call Mark for more details 07854 390 408 or email london.gtmo@googlemail.com
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Christine said...
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Is this one of Mark's babies? I like this idea. Taking our independence day as a time to hold our country to its highest ideals makes perfect sense. Were I in London, I'd be there.
I'm not... so instead I'll go watch my commie sport being played by mostly foreigners, but, hey, there will be fireworks!
I like the Fourth. I like sparklers and fireworks. I like that we use a display first invented in China and listen to a Russian song (1812 Overture ROCKS!) in our celebrations. It's very multicultural of us. But it would be good if we turned a bit more thought away from our BBQ and toward the things that led us to declare our independence in the first place. You know, check in and make sure those things don't start happening again...
Netflix rec: "The Education of Shelby Knox". Check it out. It's related to this comment, I swear. -
June 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM
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Jen said...
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Hey Ginger!!
I don't know how appropriate it is to comment on this post but I just stumbled on to your new De-comp blog!! I've been really out of the loop with studying to pass my qualifying test and I am happy to say I got an 84!!
Anyway, I am so excited to see you writing again!!
Love you
Jend -
June 30, 2008 at 12:45 AM
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Is this one of Mark's babies? I like this idea. Taking our independence day as a time to hold our country to its highest ideals makes perfect sense. Were I in London, I'd be there.
I'm not... so instead I'll go watch my commie sport being played by mostly foreigners, but, hey, there will be fireworks!
I like the Fourth. I like sparklers and fireworks. I like that we use a display first invented in China and listen to a Russian song (1812 Overture ROCKS!) in our celebrations. It's very multicultural of us. But it would be good if we turned a bit more thought away from our BBQ and toward the things that led us to declare our independence in the first place. You know, check in and make sure those things don't start happening again...
Netflix rec: "The Education of Shelby Knox". Check it out. It's related to this comment, I swear.
Hey Ginger!!
I don't know how appropriate it is to comment on this post but I just stumbled on to your new De-comp blog!! I've been really out of the loop with studying to pass my qualifying test and I am happy to say I got an 84!!
Anyway, I am so excited to see you writing again!!
Love you
Jend
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