PETA World Vegan Day Bare Protest – Trafalgar Sq., Sat 1 Nov 2014
Wikipedia tells me that World Vegan Day is an annual occasion celebrated by vegans around the globe each 1 November and was established in 1994 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the UK Vegan Society and the coining of the phrases “vegan” and “veganism”. The precise date of the founding wasn’t recognized and Nov 1st was chosen for its affiliation with “Samhain/Halloween and the Day of the Useless”. November 1st has additionally been All Saints Day since AD 835.
I’m not a vegan. However I’ve no issues with consuming vegan meals or vegetarian meals, however usually desire meat or fish in my meals. However clearly lowering the quantity of meat that’s eaten by folks around the globe can be a helpful contribution to lowering carbon emissions, though some vegetable manufacturing does contain a substantial carbon footprint, in addition to environmental issues.
I welcome that many individuals now select to not eat animals and keep away from animal merchandise, no matter their causes, but in addition assume there are good causes to maintain farming animals although there are many farming practices I believe ought to be banned. However retaining livestock may be very a lot a conventional a part of life on this nation, one which has produced the panorama we take pleasure in and the animals we wish to see in it. It may be accomplished in an moral and humane method, although this implies paying a worth that enables farmers to take action.
So though I used to be pleased to {photograph} PETA’s World Vegan Day protest in Trafalgar Sq. when activists carrying little clothes and smeared with pretend blood lay on a big tarpaulin, I used to be not in sympathy with a few of the views expressed by PETA. However the posters held by these collaborating within the protest (I believe lower than half the marketed 255, the variety of animals killed for meals within the UK each second) merely famous the “1 billion animals killed for flesh every year” and inspired folks to “Select Life: Selected Vegan“.
PETA World Vegan Day Bare Protest
Towards acid assaults on Iranian ladies – Trafalgar Sq., Sat 1 Nov 2014
I believe I had truly come to Trafalgar Sq. for this protest, organised by the eighth March Girls’s Organisation (Iran – Afghanistan).
They had been within the sq. protesting on the horrific assaults on ladies who go onto the streets of Iran not carrying a veil. Gangs inspired by the Iranian regime have thrown acid within the faces of many ladies, inflicting intense ache and burning, leaving them scarred and blinded. Because the protest additionally identified in addition to the compelled carrying of the veil, ladies in Iran don’t have any proper to divorce, can nonetheless be stoned to demise for adultery and will be victims of so-called ‘honour killings’.
Towards acid assaults on Iranian ladies
Revolution Banner Drop – Waterloo Bridge and Trafalgar Sq., Sat 1 Nov 2014
‘Nameless’ protesters in Man Fawkes masks held up a big banner with the message ‘REVOLUTION’ on Waterloo Bridge to publicise their November fifth ‘March Towards Authorities Corruption’ in London. I photographed it from Westminster Bridge, however the banner actually wasn’t fairly giant sufficient to essentially stand out in opposition to the background of the Metropolis.
Later they took the banner to Trafalgar Sq. the place a rally in assist of Kobane was going down (see photos under) and it was reasonably extra spectacular there.
International Solidarity With Kobane – Trafalgar Sq., Sat 1 Nov 2014
November 1st was additionally World Kobane Day, and hundreds had been in Trafalgar Sq. supporting the defenders of Kobane in opposition to ISIS and preventing for the exceptional democratic revolution of Rojava, calling for help for the Kurdish fighters and refugees, legitimisation of the PKK and the discharge of Ocalan. The protest was a part of a International day of solidarity with the YPG (Folks’s Protection Models) and the ladies of the YPJ preventing in opposition to ISIS.
The protest was organised by the Kurdish Folks’s Meeting and Peace in Kurdistan Marketing campaign in cooperation with Kurdistan Nationwide Congress (KNK), Roj Girls Meeting and Free Youth Motion and group organisations, and was additionally supported by some left and human rights teams, however failed to draw a few of the bigger teams on the left.
Among the many audio system had been human rights lawyer Margaret Owen OBE, an adviser to Kurdish human rights teams in London, Jean Lambert, Inexperienced Get together MEP for London, Mark Thomas, Peter Tatchell and Father Joe Ryan, a Catholic priest from Haringey in addition to these from numerous Kurdish teams.
Many audio system criticised Turkey for supporting ISIS and permitting the smuggling of oil and different items via Turkey which finance ISIS. In addition they supported the the mannequin structure adopted in Rojava, the de facto autonomous Kurdish majority area in northern and north-eastern Syria as an essential democratic growth, for its pluralism, democratic participation and safety of basic human rights and liberties.
International Solidarity With Kobane
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