Some points stick with us – and it appears they may by no means go away. However issues can change and do change, and I bear in mind the lengthy years of protest towards apartheid in South Africa. However apartheid is now going robust in Israel, and issues are even worse as far as democracy and gasoline poverty are involved on this nation. There appears little hope now that even when Labour have been to get into energy issues would turn out to be any higher.
Increasingly more individuals are getting expelled from the Labour get together together with many for expressing help for Palestine, together with some main Jewish members and distinguished anti-racists because the get together lurches in direction of a right-wing dictatorial stance. I’m not a celebration member – and would quickly be expelled for what I’ve written through the years right here and elsewhere have been I to hitch, together with this put up. However I did vote for Labour for over 50 years although in the meanwhile I can’t see myself ever doing so once more.
Dying For Warmth – Downing St, Saturday twentieth Dececember
It makes me really feel frozen simply to take a look at this image. It wasn’t fairly as chilly because it has been right here over the previous week however was nonetheless fairly chilly again in 2014. I might have been sporting an additional layer of thermals beneath a heavy jacket, scarf hat and lengthy johns. Images often entails quite a lot of standing round and preserving heat in winter is commonly laborious.
This small group of protesters had been there since 8am, round three hours by the point I arrived decided they usually have been decided to finish a 24hr vigil to attract consideration to the impression of gasoline poverty which killed greater than 10,000 within the UK in 2012/3.
Others got here for shorter durations over the day to help them and Gas Poverty Motion’s ‘Power Invoice of Rights‘ to guard the poor and finish these deaths. Not one of the eight factors on this have been taken up by the federal government and vitality prices have risen sky excessive prior to now 12 months. The federal government blames this on Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, however this fails to clarify why folks within the UK are paying excess of these in different nations throughout Europe – and their blatant lies over this don’t idiot many.
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Occupy Democracy Return To Parliament Sq. – Sat 20 Dec 2014
Police and personal safety ‘heritage wardens’ watched from the fenced off grass as protesters held a rally on the paved space on the fringe of the sq. dealing with the Homes of Parliament. This isn’t coated by the bylaws that prohibit protests on the sq. with out official permission.
The grass had been ‘briefly closed’ and fenced by the Larger London Authority, formally for ‘vital works‘ however truly merely to disclaim entry to individuals who wished to interact on this peaceable dialogue about democracy – and naturally to everybody else who would possibly wish to be on what is often a public sq.. There was no signal of actions of any variety being carried out on the grass or pavements beneath GLA management within the sq..
A sequence of speeches and different actions was deliberate calling for actual democracy in a Britain the place 3.5 million reside in poverty. The primary speaker was the then Inexperienced Occasion Deputy Chief Shahrar Ali, and after talking he responded to a prolonged and wide-ranging query and reply session about Inexperienced Occasion insurance policies.
Following this was to be one other efficiency of the Fossil-Free Nativity which I had photographed two weeks earlier, so I left to go elsewhere, returning briefly later within the day when actions have been nonetheless continuing.
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Don’t Purchase Israeli ‘Blood Diamonds’ – Bond St , Sat 20 Dec 2014
Campaigners got here to Bond Road to protest exterior retailers there which promote diamonds minimize and polished in Israel, that are the principle supply of funding for Israeli army assaults on Gaza. Many diamonds minimize there come illegally from battle zones. Palestinians have known as for a boycott of all Israeli diamonds.
Israeli assaults on Gaza had led a decline in tourism and different exports of products and providers however elevated diamond gross sales have helped Israel fill the hole, and are stated to supply $1 billion a 12 months to the Israeli army.
My put up on My London Diary consists of particulars of a few of the Israeli diamond corporations and their actions which embrace the sponsorship of the infamous Givati Brigade of the Israeli military, accused of battle crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council and accountable for the Samouni household bloodbath.
I photographed the protest exterior De Beers, the worlds largest firm concerned in tough diamond gross sales and Leviev, whose firm is reported by the New York Instances to be “the world’s largest cutter and polisher of diamonds” and which can also be concerned within the building of unlawful Jews-only settlements on the West Financial institution.
There have been speeches concerning the involvement of the diamond corporations in Israeli army assaults on Gaza and many individuals passing the protest took fliers calling for a boycott of Israeli diamonds and expressed their help. There have been additionally just a few who clearly disapproved of the protest, together with only one man who stopped briefly to hurl just a few insults whereas I used to be there.
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