HP, Poor Doorways & Nameless: On Wednesday fifth November 2014 Man Fawkes was clearly on our minds, and from a protest towards HP’s assist of the Israeli military and prisons I went on to a protest the place a man with a Boris Johnson masks was burnt after which joined Nameless with their march on Parliament.
Boycott Hewlett Packard – Sustainable Manufacturers – Lancaster London Resort
Hewlett Packard, now generally known as HP, although that’s nonetheless a reputation that makes me consider brown sauce in bottles with an image of the Homes of Parliament, had been the sponsors of the Sustainable Manufacturers convention going down on the Lancaster London Resort at Lancaster Gate.
Protesters from Inminds got here there to protest towards the corporate’s position in IT assist for Israeli forces who had killed 521 Palestinian kids within the then latest assault on Gaza, in addition to in working the Israeli jail system. They handed out fliers to these going out and in of the resort and others spoke concerning the HP’s deep involvement in Israeli battle crimes and persecution of Palestinians.
They level out that younger Palestinian boys in addition to different prisoners have been saved for lengthy durations in solitary confinement and tortured in Israeli prisons supported by HP. Many older Palestinian women and men are additionally locked up in ‘administrative confinement’ with none correct costs or trial, typically being launched after which instantly being confined once more in what quantities to infinite imprisonment.
Extra at Boycott Hewlett Packard – Sustainable Manufacturers.
[HP Sauce is definitely a long-lived brand, having got its name in 1895, five years after it was first produced in Nottingham as ‘The Banquet Sauce’, though in 1988 like most things British it was sold off to foreigners. Currently it is owned by Heinz and made in the Netherlands and still tastes much the same. ]
Poor Doorways Man Fawkes Burn Boris – One Industrial St, Aldgate
I met Class Warfare in a close-by pub earlier than they marched to yet one more of their weekly protests towards the ‘social apartheid’ on this giant block with an opulent lobby and concierge for the ‘luxurious’ flats for the rich and a bleak facet entrance down an alley for the poor in social housing in the identical constructing.
They’d with them two effigies of Boris Johnson, one a BJ placard, one hand holding a bottle of ‘Boris Bolly’ and the opposite fanning out a wad of notes, and a life-size ‘man’ in a go well with and tie with a Boris facemask and a mop as hair, who was dragged alongside the the protest holding one finish of the Class Warfare Womens Dying Squad banner.
Class Warfare had introduced alongside sparklers for the protest, and sooner or later the inevitable occurred and ‘Boris’ was set alight, ultimately burning to a small heap of burning materials in the course of the vast pavement. As you may see within the image there was loads of area round so no-one was in any hazard.
The police known as the Hearth Brigade, who once they arrived, appeared, laughed and walked away. However police insisted they cope with the fireplace. It took one fireman and one bucket of water.
After the fireplace was put out, police grabbed Jane Nicholl and instructed her she was being arrested for having set gentle to the man.
A big crowd surrounded her and the police, calling on them to launch her, however ultimately they managed to take her and put her at the back of a van, which was then surrounded by individuals.
Extra police arrived and there have been flashing blue lights all over the place, as police tried to clear a path for the van. Finally police managed to drive away.
They then grabbed one other of the protesters, handcuffed him and carried him away, although I believe he was later launched with out cost. The CPS had agreed that burning the effigy was official freedom of expression however Jane was charged with lighting a fireplace on or over a freeway so an individual utilizing the freeway was injured or endangered. However the CPS had been unable to provide any proof that burning Boris ‘injured, interrupted or endangered’ any passerby – it clearly hadn’t – and the case was dismissed.
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Man Fawkes ‘Nameless’ Million Masks March – Parliament Sq.
A whole lot had met in Trafalgar Sq. for the world vast Million Masks March towards austerity, the company takeover of presidency and the abuse of energy, however by the point I arrived from Aldgate had marched all the way down to Parliament Sq.. Some had been on the bottom underneath a police van with one other standing on its learn bumper with a placard.
Right here there have been a mass of limitations and huge teams of riot police threatening the protesters, who known as on them to place their batons away and be part of their Man Fawkes celebration with out success.
Most of the protesters wore ‘Nameless’ masks however there have been comparatively few with placards and no person appeared to have a lot thought about what they need to do. They stood round, then marched across the sq. a bit earlier than some determined to march to Buckingham Palace the place I discovered later that issues did get a bit extra energetic. However I’d had sufficient by then and had gone house.
Man Fawkes ‘Nameless’ Million Masks March
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