Updated! 'Warmonger' Speech Cancelled

bristol | peace | feature Thursday May 15, 2008 09:04 by imcvol

John Bolton, ardent advocate for the Project for a New American Century, WAS to speak at Festival of Ideas

John Bolton, ardent advocate for the Project for a New American Century, WAS to speak at Festival of Ideas

Tony Gosling writes; John Bolton bottles out...John Bolton will not now be speaking in Bristol. The decision was, according to BCDP [the organisers], his alone.

Bristol Stop the War write; Rather than be invited to Bristol as a respectable speaker on issues like the United Nations he should be on his way to the International Criminal Court as a war criminal. Bristol Stop The War Coalition is organising a protest outside the meeting – meet at the Watershed, 7pm, Thursday 29th May (Protest Flyer from swindonstopwar.org.uk)...In addition to the protest on 29th May we are encouraging all our supporters to contact the organisers and sponsors of the festival to object to Bolton being invited to speak. Contact details for organisers and (some) sponsors are below....Full article.

Josh writes; is John Bolton really speaking at the Watershed ??? sounds too good to be true, read that he was booked for 29th May at 7.30 p.m. as part of Festival of Ideas, & Bolton´s got great ones! a real, live, neocon fundamentalist in Bristol ?? Full article & comments. (Image: John R Bolton)

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