Here are 9 photos from the stall for Lebanon in Edinburgh on Saturday 29th July 2006. News of forthcoming demonstrations are included. BUILDING FOR SATURDAY AUGUST 12TH There was a lively stall by the Mound Precinct on Edinburgh’s Princes Street this Saturday. The Lebanese community of Scotland, Edinburgh Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Edinburgh Stop the War coalition supported the series of stalls and protest. Hundreds of leaflets were given out about forthcoming events and such was the public interest that the event ran for an extra half hour till 4.30pm. Nine photos of the day are included. The urgency of the coming protests is highlighted by the disgraceful attack on Qana, South Lebanon on Sunday when over 50 people, mostly children, were killed in an Israeli air strike. HERE ARE DETAILS OF COMING PROTESTS: LONDON SUNDAY 30 JULY 1-3PM TRAFALGAR SQUARE Voices for Lebanon and Palestine Britain must demand an unconditional ceasefire now. 1-3pm Trafalgar Square with Alexei Sayle, Bruce Kent, Maxine Peake, Bill Paterson, Tony Benn, Kika Markham, Corin Redgrave, Sam West, Andy de la Tour, Murad Qureshi AM, John Austin MP, speakers from Lebanon and Palestine and more. Words by Harold Pinter, Robert Fisk, Terry Jones, Lebanese artist Zena el Khalil, Palestine’s leading poet Mahmoud Darwish Compiled and directed by Michael Kustow LONDON TUESDAY 1st AUGUST 2006 EMERGENCY ASSEMBLY FOR DIRECT ACTION THIS TUESDAY (1st AUGUST) [NOTE: the following text was recently posted on the Indymedia.org.uk web- site. Its origins are otherwise unknown] In response to the actions of last Tuesday and Saturday it has become clear that there is an overwhelming desire to do more than peacefully protest the massacre happening in Lebanon and Palestine. Currently over 300 Lebanese have been killed while the governments and populations of the world watch. At the same time the media is speaking about balance, to try to fool us into their 'neutral' coverage. The systems of power are attempting to silence any form of unconventional dissent. Once again, demonstrations have been called in which people march along prescribed routes and listen to planned, boring speeches. We've seen this play before with the run up to the Iraq war. We now know that peaceful demonstrations alone are not sufficient to halt the war machine. To combat this, we are putting a call-out for an emergency assembly to plan direct action against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Palestine. The assembly will take place on Tuesday, 1st of August at 18:30. Venue: room H216, on the second floor of Connaught House, London School of Economics. Connaught House is on Aldwych, for a map and directions see www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm LONDON SATURDAY 5TH AUGUST 2006 LEBANON / GAZA: EMERGENCY NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION IN LONDON NEXT SATURDAY (5 AUGUST) - Unconditional ceasefire now - Stop Israel's Attacks on Lebanon and Gaza - End Blair's support for Bush's war Assemble 12 noon, Saturday 5 August at speakers' corner in Hyde Park. Called by: STOP THE WAR COALITION Phone 020 7278 6694 Email office@stopwar.org.uk SATURDAY 12th AUGUST There will be an International Day of action on Saturday 12th August when demonstrations will be held around the world. There will be an all-Scottish demonstration in Edinburgh: Demonstration: END ISRAELI TERROR HANDS OFF SYRIA & IRAN TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ Scottish Demonstration, Edinburgh - 12 August, 2pm Details to follow supported by Lebanese community of Scotland, Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Edinburgh Stop the War Coalition, Glasgow Stop the War Coalition, PSC UK (Glasgow), Edinburgh CND & more... USA 12th August August 12th National March on Washington: Buses from around the country coming to DC! There will be sister demonstrations on August 12 for those on the West Coast who are unable to travel to Washington D.C. The West Coast demonstrations will take place in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle. SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 1.00PM National Demonstration in Manchester at the Labour Party Conference TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ DON'T ATTACK IRAN NO TRIDENT REPLACEMENT For more information about protests: 1/ UK Stop the War www.stopwar.org.uk 2/Edinburgh Stop the War: http://www.edinburghstw.org.uk/ 3/ INTERNATIONAL ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism): http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ANS_homepage 4/Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: www.scottishpsc.org.uk