Campaigners, activists, politicians and the angelic

















"The quest goes on." Gary Kemp










"I have campaigned on behalf of Shaker Aamer's wife and children, my constituents, since I was elected in 2010. Mr Aamer's detention without charge, now in its eleventh year, is entirely unacceptable." Jane Ellison, Member of Parliament for Battersea, London

Shaker Aamer is a family man from Londoner held in Guantánamo











































































































"If wars can be started by lies, peace can be started by truth." Julian Assange



President Obama says: "The free flow of information on the Internet builds a stronger society, encourages creativity and helps people around the world participate in the political process and hold their governments accountable" (to Chinese students in Shanghai 16th November 2009)



Hillary Clinton says: "Information has never been so free. Even in authoritarian countries. Information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable" (US Secretary of State 21th Jan 2001)













"Democracy is not a spectator sport, and people should get involved" Robert Greenwald









































































































































Victor Hugo: On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.

Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come.














































"War Is A Racket" U.S. Marine Major General Smedley D. Butler















"War isn’t worth one life." Harry Patch






































































"A nation that will not search for its own past and not be critical of it, is a shameless nation." Ai Weiwei






















"The worst of all attitudes is indifference." Stéphane Hessel,
author of, Indignez vous! (Get Indignant)









































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































"The time for peace is always now"





































Aversion and hated arise from a misguided search for security, from the mistaken belief that hatred can make us safer. Jack Kornfield




































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































"The UK spends more on its military budget than every other country in the world, apart from the US and China." CAAT















































































































































































































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"There is something about building up a comradeship that I still believe is the greatest of all feats" Edmund Hillary (1919 - 2008) first mountaineer with Tenzing Norgay to scale Mount Everest the world's highest mountain.









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