Badgers, Yarls Wooden & Ukraine – Three protests in Westminster on Thursday 13 March 2014.
Badger Military Says Finish Culls – Outdated Palace Yard
Bovine TB is a superb drawback for dairy farmers and the nice majority of them are satisfied that badgers play an necessary function in spreading it, though scientists estimate that round 94% of all infections are unfold from cow to cow. A significant a part of the issue is that the check used for the illness in cows fails to detect a big proportion – maybe a 3rd – of contaminated cows.
Round 20,000 cows are slaughtered every year as a result of they’re discovered to be contaminated and compensating the farmers prices us over £100 million a 12 months. The Badger Belief argues in a report primarily based on scientific proof {that a} simpler strategy than culling could be to deal with “cattle, cattle testing and vaccination and enhanced cattle biosecurity (together with cattle motion).”
There isn’t a scientific consensus that the killing of 260,000 badgers since 2013 has had any impact on the unfold of the illness. DEFRA continues to assist badger culling however Labour in 2023 pledged to finish it if elected – although they’ve already drawn again from most of their pledges.
The cull has provoked sturdy feelings on either side and this protest on a day when MPs had been discussing the cull mirrored that. You possibly can learn extra about it and see extra footage on My London Diary at Badger Military Says Finish Culls.
Finish Persecution & Sexual Abuse at Yarl’s Wooden – Dwelling Workplace, Marsham St
A brief stroll away exterior our “dysfunctional” and Dwelling Workplace – then beneath Theresa Could and her racist “hostile surroundings” coverage – a protest referred to as for an finish to the psychological, sexual, bodily and authorized abuse of girls asylum seekers and immigrants held at Yarl’s Wooden and for the detention centre to be closed down.
Many ladies have made complaints of sexual abuse by male jail workers on the centre, and one who was awarded compensation was was horrified to be taught that the person who abused her was nonetheless working there, free to commit additional offences.
The protest passed off following stories of the disappearance of a detainee referred to as Saba from Pakistan, who girls in Yarl’s Wooden consider had dedicated suicide there. It was supported by the Motion for Justice, Southall Black Sisters and the All African Girls’s Group, and protesters included girls who had been held within the detention centre whereas their asylum claims had been being thought of.
In my account on My London Diary I give extra particulars about her and likewise of the circumstances of a political refugee from Mali who had been illegally deported again there within the earlier month, and a Kurdish commerce union activist additionally illegally deported by the Dwelling Workplace after which in hiding in Turkey the place she had tried suicide.
There had been many different stories of violence in opposition to girls the centre, and the protest organisers acknowledged:
“Yarl’s Wooden girls are preventing again in opposition to makes an attempt to deport them or their sisters to persecution and demise and exposing sexual abuse by male workers. The frightened response of the Dwelling Workplace and its brokers is to extend the repression in Yarl’s Wooden, breaching even the current, insufficient authorized rights of detainees and creating an surroundings that may drive girls to suicide.”
The protest referred to as for a public inquiry into abuses at Yarl’s Wooden and for it to be shut down.
Finish Sexual Abuse at Yarl’s Wooden
Ukraine Vigil – Downing St
Lastly I went to Downing Road the place on the pavement reverse Ukrainians had arrange a everlasting vigil, hoping to get the UK Authorities to face up in opposition to Russian invasion and annexation of Crimea.
There wasn’t an excellent deal taking place throughout my temporary go to, and I used to be right to assume that the UK authorities would take something however half-hearted motion. To do extra would possibly damage the Metropolis’s monetary pursuits – and people of some main Tory MPs and their household companies. The failure of the west to finish its aggressive Chilly Conflict attitudes to Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was certain to have extremely toxic repercussions. We should always have welcomed the nation into our sphere and dismissed the NATO hawks.
A couple of extra footage at Ukraine Vigil.
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