JOE GLENTON
PUBLIC MEETING ORGANISED BY BOLTON CND/STOP THE WAR
FRIEND’S MEETING HOUSE,
SILVERWELL STREET, BOLTON
7pm - Friday 11th March
Anti-war Lance Corporal Joe Glenton was arrested in 2009 for bravely honouring his moral responsibility to speak out against the illegal occupation of Afghanistan. Joe joined the Army at the age of 23, after a tour in Afghanistan in 2006 he came back disillusioned and believing the war to be wrong. He addressed 10,000 Anti-war demonstrators in Trafalgar Square in 2009 and told the media that he did not believe the war was legitimate or in the nation’s interest.
Joe has stated that “The occupation of a country like that, regime change, these things are all illegal. I can’t be involved in it on that basis and, not only that, I am also bound to try and stop it, try and change things.” Joe served four months in a military jail after he admitted going absent without leave. He was released in July 2010.
Joe recently called again for British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. He said: "There's a real up-swell of awareness now among military families, the military, and the people in this country that this conflict has turned into a face-saving exercise and that's why it's being dragged out. This is a majority opinion, 70% of people in this country want withdrawal, whatever their background, that's across the board whatever their politics are, because this is an expensive, messy, gory face-saving exercise and that's quite clear to people."
Please come and here Joe’s views in Bolton on 11 March.
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