{"id":17053,"date":"2012-11-04T00:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17053"},"modified":"2012-11-04T00:48:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-03T23:48:56","slug":"protest-war-criminal-tony-blair-at-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/protest-war-criminal-tony-blair-at-ucl\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest War Criminal Tony Blair at UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-Thatcherite, monetarist and war criminal Tony Blair is back in London, speaking at University College London. Join the protest on the day of Blair&#8217;s visit to make sure his crimes aren&#8217;t forgotten. Meet outside the main gates of the UCL campus on Gower Street at 11am on the 13th November.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair is back in London on the speaking circuit, this time helping to launch a new\u00a0department at University College London. In a further attempt to\u00a0extricate himself from his role in lying about Iraq&#8217;s non-existant Weapons of Mass Destruction and his illegal invasion of Iraq &#8211; which resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths &#8211; Tony Blair is now billed to speak as an\u00a0expert on the &#8220;difficult issues facing markets and economies&#8221; and most bizarrely as one of the most\u00a0&#8220;popular politicians in recent times&#8221;. A letter signed by John Pilger, Tony Benn and academics at London universities, including at UCL, has been sent to college management which criticises what is perceived as an\u00a0endorsement\u00a0&#8220;of\u00a0Mr Blair [who] took our country to war against Iraq in flagrant violation of the UN Charter and in doing so committed the international crime of aggression&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div>\n&#8211; Add your name to the letter to pressure UCL to withdraw Blair&#8217;s invitation &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/R0sgh2\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/R0sgh2<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Join the protest on the day of Blair&#8217;s visit to make sure his crimes aren&#8217;t forgotten &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/R0rD7p\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/R0rD7p<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; Spread the news of Blair&#8217;s visit\u00a0by sharing the Facebook event &#8211;\u00a0bitly.com\/RAfwf<\/p>\n<p>Meet outside the main gates of the UCL campus on Gower Street at 11am on the 13th November.<\/p>\n<p>The situation on the ground may change at short notice. If you would like to be kept up-to-date, please e-mail your mobile telephone number to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:office@stopwar.org.uk\">office@stopwar.org.uk<\/a>\u00a0to join our texting circle. We will send out alerts on the day.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the event Tony Blair is speaking at and UCL&#8217;s Institute for Security &amp; Resilience Studies visit\u00a0&#8211; bitly.com\/TTUgBp<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-Thatcherite, monetarist and war criminal Tony Blair is back in London, speaking at University College London. Join the protest on the day of Blair&#8217;s visit to make sure his crimes aren&#8217;t forgotten. Meet outside the main gates of the UCL campus on Gower Street at 11am on the 13th November. Tony Blair is back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1615],"tags":[55],"class_list":{"0":"post-17053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-uk-news","8":"tag-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}