Brian Haw is an English peace campaigner. He was born in 1949. In 2001, Brian Haw commenced a constant vigil protest outside England's Houses of Parliament protesting against the USA led sanctions and bombing of Iraq. Within a year of his campaign starting, moves were made to evict Brian Haw under pretexts such as 'obstructing the highway' and supposed risks of terrorism, however all attempts failed and in 2005 the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, passed a new law banning all spontaneous protests within a half-mile radius of the House of Parliament in direct contradiction to the rights established under the Human Rights Act. Research Brian Haw
Maya Anne Evans is an English cook and anti-war protester. She was born in 1980. In October 2005 Maya Evans was arrested after reading out a list of names of British soldiers killed during the American/British invasion of Iraq, at central London's war memorial, the Cenotaph. Maya Evans was arrested and prosecuted - receiving a 12 month conditional discharge and being ordered to pay 100 pounds costs - under Section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act which prohibits 'unauthorised demonstrations' within one kilometre of London's Houses of Parliament, and which was passed to try and silence - without success - the anti-Iraq war protester Brian Haw. Research Maya Evans
The Regulators were a body of insurgents in North Carolina just before the American Revolution. Heavy taxes and fees aroused the resistance of the back-country people against Governor William Tryon in 1766. The rebellion spread, but William Tryon signally defeated the armed bands at Alamance, on the Haw, in 1771. His successor, Martin, compromised with the Regulators. Research Regulators
William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was an American fascist. He was born in 1906 at Brooklyn, New York and died in 1946. As a child he was brought up in Ireland and in 1922 emigrated to England with his family. In 1933 he joined the British Union of Fascists, before being expelled in 1937 and forming his own Nazi party. He fled to NaziGermany before the outbreak of the Second World War and from there made propaganda broadcasts on Radio Hamburg against Britain. After the war he was captured by the British, tried for treason and executed, his defence of his US nationality being dismissed on the grounds he had held (albeit illegally obtained by deception) a UKpassport which expired in 1940. Research William Joyce
In Egyptian mythology, Athor (Hathor, Hat-Her) was a goddess symbolised by a cow with a solar disk on its head and haw-feather plumes. She was originally a Nubian war goddess, who took the same lioness form as Sekhmet and drank her enemies' blood. Research Athor
The Battle of the Haw occurred on February the 25th, 1781 during the American War of Independence. About 400 loyalists had collected near the Haw. Henry Lee, by passing for Tarleton's force, got among them. The trick was discovered and a hot fight followed in which ninety loyalists were slain and many wounded. Lee's loss was light. Research Battle of The Haw
In 2003 a 'coalition' of American led forces invaded Iraq without United Nations approval on the pretext that Iraq possessed, and refused to relinquish, weapons of mass destruction which were a threat to the security of other countries, including the USA. Within weeks the ruling Ba'ath regime was overthrown in a conflict in which coalition forces, including British troops, were condemned by the International Red Cross for breaking the terms of the Geneva Convention, routinely abusing prisoners and in 2005 it emerged the US troops had used white phosphorus as an anti-personnel incendiary weapon - chemical weapon - contrary to international law. No weapons of mass destruction found and the justification changed to 'the liberation of the Iraqi people', which a year later became all the more ironic as reports and photographs were leaked of the torture of Iraqis captured by American troops, including a report by the International Red Cross. The reality, according to opponents of the war, was that the invasion was part of the corporate plan for world globalisation - the corporate takeover of water, oil and electric production and distribution for profit, and Iraq, led by Sadaam Hussein, was not cooperative to the idea of the theft of the country's resources by Anglo-American corporations. President Bush of the USA and Prime Minister Tony Blair of the UK both with major financial ties to the relevant globalisation corporations used their countries armies to further their own financial gain. The illegality of the war, which was still raging more than a year later, proved the United Nations to be ineffective in policing aggressive nations.
Following attacks upon Iraq, a one-man anti-war protest by Brian Haw outside England's Houses of Parliament, all day and all night everyday since 2001 led to the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, passing a law banning spontaneous protests outside the Parliament after failing to have Brian Haw evicted under existing legislation.
After the Invasion of Iraq, and the securing of its plentiful oil supplies by western oil companies, western oil companies reported record-breaking profits, and in February 2006 the Dutch Shell oil company reported the largest annual profit ever made by any company in Britain. Research Invasion of Iraq
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