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SACC condemns award of census contract to subsidiary of "Abu Ghraib" firmSACC is deeply concerned that CACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was in June awarded the contract to run the 2011 Scottish Census. We think that it is wrong to give business to a company that helped run Abu Ghraib and that it is unwise to ask Scots to give personal information to a company whose parent company is closely linked to the US military and intelligence communities. Full Statement and background from SACC Scottish Census contract is aiding cover-up by Abu Ghraib firm - Press release, 7 October 2008 TAKE ACTION.
Sign the online petition Ask your MSPs to support the resolution An Ethical Census in 2011 lodged in the Scottish Parliament by Pauline McNeill MSP |
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Film: Iraq For Sale
7.45pm Tuesday 14 October The story of what happens when corporations go to war. Acclaimed director Robert Greenwald takes you inside the lives of soldiers, truck drivers, widows and children who have been changed forever as a result of profiteering in the reconstruction of Iraq. Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so. |
Latest NewsScottish Census contract is aiding cover-up by Abu Ghraib firm
08 October 2008 42-day detention dropped as unworkable
07 October 2008 Jojo Yakob loses his appeal to stay in Scotland
03 October 2008 'Blood Hungry' police arrests continue from Bush demo 15 June
29 September 2008 |
Background and CommentTroops on US Streets to Carry Out "Crowd Control"
by Naomi Wolf, 08 October 2008 Islamophobia
by Zahid Ali, 03 October 2008 It is wrong to criminalize migration
29 September 2008 Don't mention the war
by Stop the War Coalition, 23 September 2008 Creating SuspectsThe "War on Terror" promotes a racist culture of suspicion towards migrant and Muslim communities. It generates and manipulates public fears to justify a perpetual state of war. It started long before the 11th September attacks Ordinary criminal law provides more than adequate powers for the police to protect the public, but that law is not adequate for the anti-democratic 'war on terror'. We are meant to distrust others and to accept new state powers
as our benign protector. Attacks on civil liberties are not
simply a means but also a fundamental purpose of this 'war on
terror'... |
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Dear Labour Party, It's time for a change of policy"Inept though Brown is, he's absolutely committed to the same neoliberal warmongering policies as Blair was. He stands shoulder to shoulder with George Bush, British troops remain in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan is as aggressively pursued as if Blair were still prime minister."
"Brown's intent on achieving detention without charge for 42 days in the teeth of substantial parliamentary and public opposition. ID cards are still to be introduced, asylum-seekers are still forcibly imprisoned, impoverished and deported." |
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Keep Torture Flights Out of ScotlandThe CIA acknowledged earlier this year that the rendition programme will continue. The United States is currently thought to be holding 27,000 prisoners around the world without charge or trial. Many prisoners are being held in Iraq and, according to lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, the the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there. Scottish airports are still wide open to flights providing illegal support for secret detention and torture. In the past they have provided crucial support for illegal renditions. SACC has evidence (eg Rendition plane lands at Glasgow ) that several aircraft suspected of links to the CIA's rendition programme have landed in Scotland in the past year. The Scottish Parliament must take action to make keep torturers and their accomplices out of Scotland. Scotland wants no part in extraordinary rendition: MSP hands petition to Cabinet Secretary for Justice. |
42 days - Still fighting backGordon Brown has brought the Labour Party and the British Parliament into disrepute by using of bribery and threats to win a hairsbreadth majority for the extension to 42 days detention without charge for terrorist suspects - a measure that almost nobody sincerely supports.
42 day detention is likely to be rejected by the House of Lords and sent back to the Commons for MPs to think again. Please tell your MP that you expect them to vote against it when they next get a chance. The absurdity of the measure - which not even the police want - is now exposed for all to see. There is no reason for any MP to support the plan. There is only one way for Brown to get out of this. He should withdraw the Counter Terrorism Bill. Civil Liberties high on the Agenda after Davis's byelection victory |
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About SACCSACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a grassroots group that campaigns against Britain's anti-terrorism acts and offers solidarity to the communities most affected by them. SACC is affiliated to the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, to the Stop the War Coalition and to the UK's National Guantanamo Coalition. Organisations that SACC is affiliated to don't necessarily endorse the views held by SACC. |
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