Let's Form A Youth Bloc @ No Nato Newport Protests!
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Young people have been particularly targeted by government austerity measures, youth centres and projects are closing across the UK, tuition fees have tripled, EMA in England has been abolished¹, college and university places have decreased, the list goes on...
Do you want a future that focuses on opportunities for all or a future that continues to exploit tax payers' money for perpetual war to the detriment of us all?
On 4th and 5th September 2014, the NATO summit will be taking place at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport. We will be opposing it. Join in and let us stand in solidarity and form a Youth Bloc on the peace march on the 30th August. We will protest against the warmongers at the NATO Summit; after all, it's our future, not theirs.
Join us on Facebook (No NATO Newport), join our meetings in Newport and Cardiff, or sign our Statement:
"No to NATO. No to War. No to Austerity.
Wales could see its biggest protests in a generation as 60 world leaders meet at the Celtic Manor in Newport for the NATO summit on 4th-5th September to plan their war on the world. Previous summits in Chicago and Strassbourg saw thousands protest war, austerity and global inequality.
From August 30th, people will flock to South Wales for international actions, including a weekend march, Counter Summit, a week-long peace camp, and protests on the summit’s opening day.
NATO is the nuclear-armed military alliance binding Europe to US foreign policy, a foreign policy post-Iraq that is increasingly unpopular around the world. It is also the military alliance currently occupying Afghanistan.
War is the enemy of the poor. The world’s 85 richest people have as much as the poorest 3.5 billion. The annual sum needed to end world hunger is $30 billion while the US Military’s budget is $530 billion per year.
Money into war is money out of our communities. In the UK, 500,000 people had to resort to food banks last year. While public services are slashed, one day of war in Afghanistan could fund 100,000 nurses.
This autumn, the powerful will make their voices heard at the NATO summit. We must make sure that the voice of the millions around the world who need peace and justice is also heard."
To add your name or your organisation to this statement, email nonatonewport@gmail.com.
¹EMA in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland still exists.
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