Fossil Fuels, Bradley Manning & International Racism – my Saturday twenty seventh July 2013 started with a “radicalized midsummer cloud forest dream” towards the help given to fossil fuels and local weather chaos by the banks and the Metropolis of London, continued with a vigil for Bradley Manning who uncovered US struggle crimes and ended with a march and rally towards and Injustice.
Rev Billy at HSBC – Victoria
I met the Rev Billy and his choir on the Cease Purchasing Church Tour England in a inexperienced open house on Victoria Road, reverse New Scotland Yard (which has since moved to the Embankment.) There they practised their efficiency as species – monkeys, jaguars and eagles – amongst these threatened by local weather change.
Some had heads of Golden Toads, a Costa Rican species already made extinct by local weather change. These had been hidden away because the group walked in direction of the HSBC financial institution at Victoria, and all of us walked in attempting our greatest to appear like regular clients and going as much as the lengthy line of ‘Categorical Banking’ money machines.
Then the group erupted into dance motion, with the Rev Billy utilizing a megaphone to inform financial institution workers and clients what is occurring and why we’re in HSBC. Fossil Fuels are killing life on this planet and London banks and the London Inventory Trade play a key function on this – 1 / 4 of all fossil gasoline shares are traded on the LSE and in 2010-12 the highest 5 UK banks raised £170 billion for fossil gasoline firms, with the HSBC within the lead. He promised that they would depart the financial institution after the brief efficiency.
Then the Golden Toads arrived to save lots of the species, bringing with them some massive eggs of ice to assist cool the planet down, after which as promised individuals left the financial institution to proceed to the tip of the efficiency on the huge pavement exterior. Police arrived and went into the financial institution because the gamers had been leaving to have fun their motion in a close-by cafe and bar.
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Free Bradley Manning Vigil – St Martin’s, Trafalgar Sq.
Saturday twenty seventh July 2013 was a global day of motion by the Bradley Manning Help Community, and in London they held a vigil on the steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields.
Bradley Manning’s trial had began on third June in Fort Meade, US, and protests have continued each inside and outdoors the court docket, with the ‘homosexual whistleblower’ being celebrated in international locations internationally and awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize. Many see Bradley – later Chelsea Manning as a hero who must be honoured fairly than imprisoned. Her trial ended on thirtieth July with a sentence of 35 years, however in 2017 this was commuted by President Obama to seven years, relationship from her arrest in 2010.
In opposition to International Racism and Injustice – US Embassy to Whitehall
Black Activists Rising In opposition to Cuts (BARAC) UK held a rally exterior the US Embassy in Grosvenor Sq. earlier than marching to Whitehall in solidarity with households of Trayvon Martin, Stephen Lawrence, Azelle Rodney, Jimmy Mubenga and plenty of others to spotlight the truth of racism and search justice, each within the UK and US.
The protest was supported by many anti-racist organisations together with Operation Black Vote, the Nationwide Black College students Marketing campaign, International Afrikan Congress, PCS, RMT Black Members, Counterfire, UAF, Love Music Hate Racism, Lambeth TUC and Lambeth Folks’s Meeting and various well-known faces from the British left had been among the many marchers, some had been scheduled to talk on the Downing Road rally.
The US Embassy was chosen as the start line due to the killing in Florida of Trayvon Martin and the worldwide outcry towards the acquittal of his assassin underneath the Florida ‘Stand Your Floor’ regulation.
However though this was a protest towards international racism and injustice, and it had a specific concentrate on this nation, and as Lee Jasper said “We march for Jimmy Mubenga, Mark Duggan, Kingsley Burrell, Smiley Tradition and Azelle Rodney.” And others additionally made clear in speeches they had been appalled by UK instances, together with We march for Jimmy Mubenga, Mark Duggan, Kingsley Burrell, Smiley Tradition and Azelle Rodney and plenty of, many different instances.
I adopted the march because it went by means of Mayfair, however then needed to go away fairly than attend the ultimate rally.
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