{"id":1923,"date":"2005-03-15T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-03-15T17:04:12","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T00:04:12","slug":"help-get-ritter-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/15\/help-get-ritter-to-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Get Ritter to London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Our friends at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopwar.co.uk\/\">Stop the War Coalition<\/a> in Britain asked me to post this appeal:<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The British antiwar movement, the Stop the War Coalition is holding a national demonstration on Saturday 19 March 2005, in London, as part of the international day of protest action on the second anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>The London demo&#8217;s themes are: &#8216;Bring the Troops Home&#8217;, &#8216;End the Occupation of Iraq&#8217;,&#8217;No more Bush Wars&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The coalition is &#8216;broke&#8217;. It has spent every last pound on the event &#8211; but wanted to fly out a key speaker from the USA &#8211; former UN Arms Inspector Scott Ritter. Ritter is warning of US plans for the invasion of Iran, which he believes could be in June 2005. <\/p>\n<p>The UK protest will be a focus for world media, after the success of the Feb 2003 London anti-war demonstration which mobilised around 2 million people in London in the greatest protest in British history. This protest includes speakers from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfaw.org.uk\/\">Military Families Against the War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UK Stop the War Coalition can find some expenses but not the key travel costs such as airfare. Want to help? <\/p>\n<p>We have two days to raise the airfare. If you donate and the total raised is not enough, the Stop the War Coalition will invite Ritter to a UK speaking tour this spring, and any funds raised from US supporters will be used to make that happen. <\/p>\n<p><STRONG>Get Ritter to London and the world&#8217;s media!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopwar.org.uk\/new\/involved\/joinonline.htm\">One-off donations to UK Stop the War Coalition<\/a><br \/> (NB the donations are listed in UK pounds. \u00a31 = approx $1.83).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at the Stop the War Coalition in Britain asked me to post this appeal: The British antiwar movement, the Stop the War Coalition is holding a national demonstration on Saturday 19 March 2005, in London, as part of the international day of protest action on the second anniversary of the illegal invasion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}