'Gordon Brown should be talking about an exit strategy not a surge!'

said Karla Ellis on hearing the news that 100 soldiers had been killed
in Afghanistan in 2009.

Karla Ellis, whose brother Lee Ellis from the Paras was killed in Iraq
in 2003, confronted Brown when he was in Manchester last month trying
to explain his Afghan policy.

'I do not understand how sending more soldiers to die or be injured
could honour the ones already fallen!' says Karla.

Later this month Karla will travel down with Manchester Stop the War
to London to take petitions to Gordon Brown at 10 Downing St

'I will be going to London on the 21st December to hand Gordon Brown
those petitions signed by thousands of people from across Greater
Manchester calling for Troops Out of Afghanistan. If someone with
morals had stopped the war in Iraq, my brother would be alive! I feel
for the soldiers, I feel for the families and I feel for the future.'

Stop the War in Manchester will hold a protest vigil outside
Manchester Town Hall on Saturday. Shoppers at the Christmas market
will be asked to sign the Troops Out of Afghanistan petition.


Manchester's 100 Soldiers Protest Vigil
2pm Saturday 12th December

Outside Manchester Town Hall. Albert Square
(Meet on Lloyd St, at the back of Central Library, by entrance to the
Xmas Market)

Stop the War in Manchester will mark the loss of 100 British soldiers
and the loss of untold numbers of Afghans in the war, now in its ninth year.
Names will be displayed in a pictorial memorial.
Shoppers going to the Xmas market will be asked to sign petitions
calling for Troops Out of Afghanistan!
Petitions will be handed to Gordon Brown at 10 Downing St at 5pm on
Monday December 21st by Military Families Against the War.
www.mfaw.net

This is one of a series of protest across the country see www.stopwar.org.uk

Call Mark Krantz 07765 122 829 for details