Welcome to Roy`s Space

This site was given me as a Christmas present in 2001 by Kerris & Jules and what a wonderful present it’s been.
I have so enjoyed developing it and like Topsy it’s grown & grown. It’s been such fun sharing my life, my beliefs, things I’ve found, my interests. And so many photos. In the past I’d have a film in my camera for a year before finishing it – then along came digital and what fun it’s become.

Click on Picture Gallery for images or select from the list below on the left.
For the written word Interests includes Free Places to Visit


Alternative politics	My favourite poems	My favourite prose	My favourite films
coincidences	Cycling Action	The Square Sundial	MyDesert Island Discs
Family History - Intro, People & Parish Records	No Comment 2006 - more quotes	No Comment 1960's quotation column

I hope it will give you as much pleasure visiting it as it has given me creating it. Come again. If you want to contact me, e-mail me at roy@roystpierre.com
Love & peace
Roy

Regular Peace actions

Permanent, Faslane, near Helensburgh, Scotland:
Faslane Peace Camp sited close to Faslane Nuclear Submarine Base, also Faslane 365 rolling demos For more info click here

Permanent for 'woodland maintenance workers', near Garelochhead, Scotland: Peaton Glen Wood Peace Camp sited opposite Coulport Nuclear Weapons Base For more info click here

Every Tuesday evening, 6 - 8 pm, Main Entrance at NSA/USAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire: Peaceful protests/witnesses against the proposed US 'Star Wars' systemThe demonstration is focussed on the people who work at USAF Menwith Hill - for example - we are protesting at the roles this base has ie in the American Missile Defense System ("Star Wars"), the specifically the continuing role re the Afghanistan and Iraq conflict, the policy of 'pre-emptive strikes', the ECHELON system We are also calling for Independence FROM America. Please come and voice your concerns at the presence of this American base on UK land.For more info click here

2nd weekend of every month: Aldermaston Women's Peace Camp contact info@aldermaston.net

3rd weekend of every month, North Yorkshire: Menwith Hill Women's Peace Camp contact helenmenwith@yahoo.co.uk

last weekend of every month, Cumbria: Sellafield Women's Peace Camp contact 0113 262 1534

Gobsmacked: British use of Japanese troops in Vietnam 1945 and humanity at risk 1997

	I expect anything of Governments, I didn’t trust John F Kennedy or expect anything from Labour in ’97. Wilson’s Labour Government sowed my mistrust when it brought in a Commonwealth Immigrants Act that was even more draconian that the one proposed by the Tories, just to win an election (how little changes). However two items from history I’ve just heard about have left even me rather gobsmacked. The first, part of Britain’s secret shameful history, was the subject of a pamphlet by Phil Kaiserman, a British soldier who was sent to Vietnam in October 1945, the second NASA’s ‘Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Cassini Mission’. They show how cynical and cavalier governments and government agencies can be. Click below to read on…
	>>> Read full article: 'Gobsmacked: British use of Japanese troops in Vietnam 1945 and humanity at risk 1997' (5777 bytes more)

Alternative World Media

	Non-Aligned Countries Endorse Venezuelan Proposal for Alternative World Media Last week, Non-aligned countries agreed to construct a world system of news, radio, and information-sharing to connect and represent countries in the Global South. Mérida, July 5, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- At the 7th Conference of Information Ministers of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries held in Venezuela’s Margarita Island last week, more than 80 country delegations endorsed Venezuela’s proposal to create an alternative worldwide media network.
	>>> Read full article: 'Alternative World Media' (5287 bytes more)

Open Letter by President Evo Morales of Boliva - The True Role of Immigrants

	The True Role of Immigrants Open letter from President Evo Morales re the EU “return directive” Up to the end of the Second World War, Europe was a continent of emigrants. Thousands of Europeans left for the Americas to colonize, escape from hunger, financial crisis, war, totalitarian governments and the persecution of ethnic minorities. Today, I am following with concern the process of the “return directive”. The text, agreed on 5 June by the Interior Ministers of 27 countries of the European Union, has to be voted on in the European Parliament on June 18th. I feel that it drastically worsens the conditions of detention and deportation for undocumented immigrants, regardless of how long they have spent in a EU country, their work situation, their family ties, how much they want to and have been able to integrate.
	>>> Read full article: 'Open Letter by President Evo Morales of Boliva - The True Role of Immigrants' (8577 bytes more)

Climate Change, action and inaction

	Interesting reasoning about Climate Change, action and inaction - worth a watch and pass on: click here
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Safety First Coalition for womens' safety

	What is so shocking about adverts for escorts in local papers? Why does Harriet Harman want to clamp down on the safer ways women have found to work? Following the tragic Ipswich murders, we called together a Safety First Coalition of nurses, doctors, church people, probation officers, anti-poverty campaigners, sex workers and others, to ensure that women are not repeatedly placed in danger. We believe that there can be no protection while sex workers are being hounded, and campaign for prostitution to be decriminalised and for proper economic alternatives for women who want to get out of prostitution. Whatever people may think about sex work, women’s safety must be the priority.
	>>> Read full article: 'Safety First Coalition for womens' safety' (38758 bytes more)

SOPCA arguments. (letter in Peace News)

	Thank you for reporting [October PN] my acquittal, alongside David King, Rob Clohesey, Steve Barnes and Brian Barlow, of charges under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (now the subject of government consultation).
	>>> Read full article: 'SOPCA arguments. (letter in Peace News)' (1106 bytes more)

Rid Scotland of nuclear weapons

	Alex Salmond has made a major bid to win international backing for his government's campaign to rid Scotland of nuclear weapons, the Sunday Herald revealed. The First Minister has written to over 180 countries highlighting the nation's opposition to the deployment of Trident nuclear warheads on the Clyde, and his determination to try and block the UK government's decision to replace Trident over the next few decades. click here for more on this story Below is the full text of the letter from First Minister Alex Salmond sent to 122 parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on 15 October 2007:
	>>> Read full article: 'Rid Scotland of nuclear weapons' (4212 bytes more)

STELLA MPAKA AND HER DAUGHTER WIN THE RIGHT TO STAY!

	Dear friends, I have won Indefinite Leave to Remain for myself and my three year old daughter! I was at the Crossroads Women’s Centre, where I volunteer, when my lawyer called. My heart sank. Usually my lawyer has nothing but bad news for me. When he told me I had won I couldn’t believe my ears. I thought he must be speaking about another person. I couldn’t sleep at all that night. I stared at the ceiling with my daughter lying beside me.
	>>> Read full article: 'STELLA MPAKA AND HER DAUGHTER WIN THE RIGHT TO STAY!' (3098 bytes more)

one to think seriously about

	Presumably people protest against nuclear weapons because they have the potential not only to kill vast numbers of people but also animals and the environment. Cars are the same except that their threat is realised daily. Not only do cars kill vast numbers of people and animals (100,000 foxes p.a. in the UK for example), but they poison the environment, and contribute hugely to global warming. So obviously people who care about the environment (like anti nuclear protesters) don't drive cars, because it’s much simpler to address one's own polluting habits than to persuade the Government to stop its nuclear disgracefulness. Well I assume that’s true. Is it? If it’s not & you who read this are anti-nuclear and still drive a car then give it up now. No need to hold debates. No need to discuss targets for reduction. Just give it up. Walking and Cycling are decent ways to get about. "It didn't take a war to fuel this bike" The alternative for individual transport to walking and cycling is the car. Drivers' demand for petrol and biofuel is causing untold misery and death worldwide. - Simon
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and one from Cuba Sí

	On 9 October 1967 the US government ordered the assassination of Che Guevera. Che had been wounded and captured the day before by US trained Bolivian soldiers. Following discussions between the CIA and the Bolivian military junta in La Paz, Che was executed. A Bolivian Sergeant, Mario Terán, carried out the task. After his death, Che Guevera’s body was flown to Vallegrande to be photographed in the laundry house of the town’s small hospital. Sergeant Terán spent the following decades hiding in fear of realiation. He developed cataracts in both eyes and became virtually blind. Today the same hospital in Vallegrande serves as a base for some 20 Cuban doctors who provide free medical assistance to the local population uder Cuba’s programme of medical assistance to Bolivia. Amazingly the same man who killed Che, Sergeant Mario Terán, has had his sight restored by Cuban ophthalmic surgeon’s working in La Paz as part of the sight-saving programme ‘Operacíon Miraglo’ – CUBA SÍ, MAGAZINE OF THE CUBA SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN
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Past articles

Wednesday, November 07
Two stories reported in CAAT News
Wednesday, October 03
Support the right to demonstrate
Monday, September 17
Rough Stuff at the DSEi Arms Fair
Saturday, August 11
DESO to shut!
Wednesday, June 20
Reed Elsevier to stop organising arms fairs
MSPs CALL ON BLAIR TO AXE TRIDENT
Friday, March 24
Last rites for Parliament under new Bill? (from SchNEWS 534)
Saturday, February 18
The George Fox Six
Saturday, February 11
World Social Forum, Caracas
Thursday, November 10
Pit Stop Ploughshares Retrial Collapses

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