Adidas, West Papua, Egypt & Local weather Crisis had been all topics of protests in London on December 1st 2022
Adidas ‘Pay Your Staff’ – Oxford St
The PT Kizone manufacturing unit in Indonesia had made sportswear for Adidas, Nike and Dallas Cowboys for a few years, its employlees typically working for as little as $0.60 an hour. In January 2011 its proprietor fled the nation and the manufacturing unit closed in April 2011.
The two,800 employees had been left with out jobs and by legislation had been entitled to severance pay – a complete of round US$2.8 million. Nike and Dallas Cowboys agreed to pay their share however Adidas had been refusing to pay the $1.8 million they owed.
This led to a worldwide marketing campaign to get them to pay up and on 1st December 2012 there have been protests outdoors Adidas shops throughout the UK together with this one on Oxford Avenue. Round a doozen individuals turned up, some carrying masks of Justin Bieber, the ‘international model icon’ for his or her NEO label.
They identified that Adidas had paid $157m to sponsor the Olympics however had been refusing to pay round one hundredth of that quantity to the destitute employees who had created their earnings.
Stress was rising on Adidas and in April 2013 they got here to an settlement with these representing the previous PT Kisone employees to pay compensation and in return the employees agreed to drop a authorized case they had been taking within the USA.
Free West Papua – Indonesian Embassy, Grosvenor Sq.
December 1st is West Papua Independence Day, marking the day in 1961 when Netherlands New Guinea was granted its freedom by the Dutch, however that freedom didn’t final lengthy.
The USA, pushed by chilly struggle fears that Indonesia may transfer in the direction of the Soviet bloc determined in 1962 to arrange a course of that handed the realm over to Indonesian management with a rigged election confirming this in 1969. Solely a rigorously chosen group of 1,025 individuals out of the inhabitants of 800,000 had been allowed to vote as representatives in a vote carried out by a present of palms and so they had been “coerced into voting in opposition to independence with threats of violence in opposition to their individuals and their households.”
Since 1962 a motion for independence has continued, with peaceable protests outdoors the nation and guerilla warfare guerrilla warfare in opposition to the Indonesian administration. The Free West Papua organisation relies within the UK and led by Benny Wenda, a tribal chief who escaped from an Indonesian jail and got here to the UK. His spouse, Maria Wenda and their youngsters had been current at right now’s protest, together with different supporters of their wrestle for freedom.
Extra on My London Diary at Free West Papua Independence Day.
Morsi’s Dictatorial Decree – Egyptian Embassy, South St, Mayfair
Over 50 protesters shouted noisily outdoors the Egyptian embassy condemning the decree by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi calling him a dictator. The decree gave him sweeping powers and made him immune from authorized challenges till a brand new parliament was elected, and had led to violent protests in Egypt.
Local weather March Says ‘NO’ to Fracking
On the International Day of Motion on Local weather Change, activists laid a pipeline from the US to Canadian embassies earlier than marching to Parliament to erect an enormous mock fracking rig with the message ‘No Fracking within the UK’.
The occasion started with a rally outdoors the US Embassy, then nonetheless in Grosvenor Sq., chosen as a result of the fossil gasoline foyer within the USA, together with the Koch Brothers has made the USA the primary barrier to any efficient world motion over the local weather disaster.
They then laid a pipeline from the US embassy to the Canadian Canadian Excessive Fee on the reverse finish of Grosvenor Sq. in protest in opposition to the Canadian exploitation of extremely damaging excessive carbon tar sands.
Then the march set off on its approach to parliament and an extra rally in Outdated Palace Yard.
I arrived there in time to {photograph} the protesters elevating a mock fracking rig and take heed to speeches by Eve Macnamara from Ribble Estuary in opposition to Fracking, John McDonnell MP and Inexperienced Get together chief Natalie Bennett.
Extra on My London Diary at Local weather March Says ‘NO’ to Fracking.
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