United Households & Pals March & Rally – Trafalgar Sq. to Downing St, Sat 25 Oct 2014
Yearly on the final Saturday of October since 1999 households and mates of individuals killed by police or in prisons made their annual march at a funereal tempo from Trafalgar Sq. to Downing St the place they maintain a rally the place family members of these killed communicate.
This 12 months’s march is on twenty ninth October 2022 and folks collect in Trafalgar Sq. from midday for the march which is timed to start out at 1.30pm. The march normally begins quietly, typically in silence however will get very noisy at Downing St. Everyone seems to be invited come and help the households.
Some households carry banners with photographs of their family members who’ve died, and a few put on t-shirts with photographs of them. The nice majority of those that die in suspicious circumstances are younger black males, and the United Household & Pals Campaign was began as a community of black households however has widened to help households of all races that die in custody.
The UFFC website online has an extended checklist of households who the community helps: “Leon Patterson, Roger Sylvester, Rocky Bennett, Harry Stanley, Sean Rigg, Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah, Azelle Rodney, Christopher Alder, Brian Douglas, Pleasure Gardner, Paul Jemmott, Ricky Bishop, Mikey Powell, Jason McPherson, Sarah Campbell, Jimmy Mubenga, Paul Coker, Mark Duggan, Sheku Bayoh, Olaseni Lewis, James Herbert, Kingsley Burrell, Thomas Orchard, Amy El-Keria, Darren Neville, Jason McDonald, Philmore Mills, Mzee Mohammed, Adrian McDonald, Rashan Charles, Edson da Costa, Mark Cole” ending with “and lots of others.”
On My London Diary I point out a number of of the audio system on the 2014 occasion: “Myrna Simpson, the mom of Pleasure Gardner, killed by police restraining her with a physique belt round her head at her residence in 1987… Marcia Rigg, whose brother Sean Rigg was killed by Brixton police in 2008, Doreen Bishop, whose son Ricky Bishop was additionally killed in Brixton Police Station in 2001, Ajibola Lewis, the mom of Olaseni Lewis who died when restrained by police referred to as to a Croydon hospital, Jo Orchard, whose brother Thomas Orchard was killed by police illegally restraining him in Exeter, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennet, whose twin brother Leon Paterson was killed by police in Manchester in 1992, and Carole Duggan whose nephew Mark Duggan was shot by police in Tottenham in 2011.”
I feel all of those audio system are proven within the pages of my publish the place you possibly can learn extra about this extraordinarily shifting annual protest at United Pals & Households March.
Acid Assaults on Girls in Iran – Downing St, Sat 25 Oct 2014
The Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) referred to as for the UK to sentence the assaults by regime-organised acid assaults on girls who will not be veiled in Iran. This adopted related protests in Isfahan and Tehran.
Additionally they condemned Iran’s hanging at daybreak of Rayhaneh Jabbari. She had stabbed a former Iranian intelligence official who tried to rape her; she was the 967th particular person to be executed since Hassan Rouhani turned Iran’s president.
Extra at Acid Assaults on Girls in Iran.
Democracy Camp Saturday – Parliament Sq., Sat 25 Oct 2014
Regardless of continued harassment by GLA personal safety ‘Heritage Wardens’, Occupy Democracy has continued its presence in Parliament Sq. for over every week.
It was the ultimate Saturday of their meant camp within the sq. and in addition to a go to from the EDL – who had been stopped by police and by no means fairly made it – there have been quite a few workshops, together with by vitality boss Jeremy Leggett, Donnachadh McCarthy and MP Michael Meacher.
EDL Go to Democracy Camp – Parliament Sq., London. Sat 25 Oct 2014
A small group of extreme-right EDL supporters got here to shout insults and make gestures in the direction of the Democracy Camp, however police stopped them going into the camp space.
George Barda got here out from the camp to attempt to speak sensibly with the EDL members however was met by racist abuse.
One man objected to being photographed by a press photographer and was instructed firmly by a police officer that photographers are free to {photograph} him if they need on the general public road – as I had been doing. Shortly after this police surrounded the group and led them away in the direction of Victoria station.
Extra at EDL Go to Democracy Camp.
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