Israel, Ripper & Zimbabwe: On Saturday 14th October 2017 I started work in Mayfair the place a protest calling for a restaurant proprietor and chef to not break the cultural boycott of Israel was opposed by Zionists earlier than going to Cable Road for a protest on the Ripper ‘Museum’ and ending at a celebration of 15 years of the Zimbabwe Embassy vigil.
Little Social don’t break the cultural boycott – Mayfair
The proprietor of the Little Social Restuarant and his head chef have been going to participate within the Model Israel culinary occasion ‘Spherical Tables’ in Tel Aviv in November 2017 and human rights group Inminds had come to plead with them to not break the Palestinian name for a cultural boycott of Israel.
Occasions equivalent to these are part of the Israeli authorities’s Public Relations efforts to distract from its insurance policies of occupation and apartheid. The occasion was sponsored by Dan Lodges who’ve a department constructed on stolen Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem.
Police arrived and talked with the protesters who included a number of Palestinians and Jews. They assured police they’d do nothing unlawful, and continued getting out their flags and banners.
A number of folks arrived to placed on a counter-protest. One man assured me that all the things the folks protesting in assist of Palestine mentioned and had on their banners was lies, and tried to justify all of Israel’s actions, together with the then latest assaults on Gaza. He tried to speak with the protesters however they advised him they weren’t all in favour of listening to his lies.
I advised him how my buddy had been attacked by settlers in Palestine and who got here and stole the olives from the farm – and that Israel’s assaults on Gaza have been totally disproportionate to the rocket assaults on Israel which he mentioned provoked and claimed justified them, and that Israel ought to respect the United Nations resolutions. He continued in charge the Palestinians for all the things and later I used to be defamed as “a famous anti-Semitic photographer” in a report on this occasion for my protection of and different protests over Palestine and by the “improper kind of Jews.”
Little Social don’t break the cultural boycott.
Class Struggle return to Ripper “Museum” – Cable Road
Class Struggle returned with London 4th Wave Feminists to protest peacefuly outdoors the so-called “museum’ in Cable St displaying displays glorifying the brutal sequence of nineteenth century murders and exhibiting supplies regarding the horrific deaths of working class ladies.
They got here after Tower Hamlets council had didn’t implement the planning choices in opposition to the store, solely given planning permission underneath the false pretence it will have fun the historical past of ladies within the East Finish.
They stood with their ‘Womens Demise Brigade‘ banner on the pavement in entrance of the vacationer store and symbolically attacked it and its unlawful steel shutters and signage with plastic inflatable hammers.
Police led in a number of vacationers who had come to go to the store previous the protesters, who refused to maneuver away. Some went away after speaking after they heard why folks have been protesting concerning the exhibition, and others who went inside got here out and advised them that they thought the “museum’s” publicity was deceptive and so they had been very dissatisfied by the show.
Not a lot is thought about a few of the victims, however they have been all ladies struggling to make a dwelling, some with dependents. Folks from a few of their households nonetheless dwell in London and are disgusted on the shows on this vacationer attraction.
One of many 4th Wave Feminists learn a message from a member of a kind of households, complaining concerning the voyeuristic exploitation of her ancestor within the shows. We have been advised was identified concerning the unlucky victims, reminding us that they have been actual folks and shouldn’t be exploited on this manner by a toruist rip-off.
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Zimbabwe democracy vigil celebrates 15 years – Zimbabwe Embassy, Strand
The primary weekly vigil was held on twelfth October 2002 and there have been round 780 each Saturday since then.
They intend to proceed to protest till there are free and honest elections and an finish the human rights abuses of the Mugabe regime. Their vigils are in solidarity with brave and galvanizing human rights defenders in Zimbabwe who danger life and liberty to demand democracy, human rights and the rule of regulation.
Amongst these current have been a quantity who had been at that first vigil, together with human rights activist Peter Tatchell who was badly crushed when he tried a citizen’s arrest on Mugabe in Brussels in 2001. He minimize the celebratory cake with others from the vigil.
Since then Mugabe has gone however the human rights scenario in Zimbabwe remains to be dire and vigils proceed, now each just about and twice month-to-month in particular person. It “will proceed till internationally-monitored, free and honest elections are held in Zimbabwe.”
Zimbabwe vigil celebrates 15 years
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