Democracy, Mansion Tax & Justice – on Saturday twenty second November 2014 I photographed protests about democracy and justice within the UK, the brutal persecution of Christians in Pakistan and Class Struggle protesting exterior the houses of millionaire objectors to a proposed mansion tax. My day’s work led to Brixton with an annual march remembering younger males killed in Brixton Police Station.
Occupy Democracy at Supreme Court docket – Parliament Sq.
Activists from Occupy Democracy had spent the evening on the vast pavement in entrance of the Supreme Court docket on the west aspect of Parliament Sq. and have been on the brink of maintain two days of workshops there.
The Supreme Court docket is housed within the ornamented former Middlesex Guildhall going through the Homes of Parliament throughout the sq. and doesn’t sit at weekends, maybe why the police had not tried exhausting to take away the protesters.
Parliament Sq. itself was nonetheless fenced off and guarded, with police fearing that Occupy protesters would possibly come and arrange up a tented camp there. One of many banners the protesters had introduced learn ‘WE ARE THE GHOST OF BRIAN HAW’, the peace protester who had defied authorized and unlawful makes an attempt to take away him from his camp going through Parliament for a few years.
A small group of protesters was sheltering from the rain within the doorway of the Supreme Court docket and I went to say ‘Hey’ and take a couple of footage.
Others have been holding posters and banners and ready for others to come back an be part of them for the workshops. I couldn’t keep however hoped to come back again later, however ran out of time to take action.
Occupy Democracy at Supreme Court docket
Justice for Shahzad & Shama – Downing St
Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi have been Pakistani Christians who had been trapped into bond labour at a brick kiln in a Muslim village 35 miles south-west of Lahore. Shahad was concerned in a dispute with the kiln proprietor and landlord as he wished to repay his money owed and go away and the owner’s accountant is alleged to have raped Shama.
Shama had cleared out and burnt some objects belonging to her father after his dying on thirtieth October 2014. These included some black magic amulets and written charms. The ashes have been seen by a Muslim employee and he accused her of burning the Koran.
A big mob got here from surrounding villages and attacked the couple, stripped them and tied them to a tractor, beating them as they have been taken to the kiln, the place petrol was poured over their our bodies; accounts differ as as to whether each have been nonetheless alive after they have been then thrown into the furnace whereas there six yr outdated baby watched. Armed police stood by however refused to intervene of their murders.
The police and authorities seem to have tried to cowl up the case and buried the stays of the our bodies in secret to keep away from their households arranging a funeral. However the information leaked out and the federal authorities had appointed a minister to co-ordinate the case. At Downing Avenue there have been prayers and speeches calling for justice together with from an Elim Pentecostal minister and singer Si Genaro.
Class Struggle Griff Rhys Jones Mansion Tax – Fitzroy Sq.
Earlier within the month, Class Struggle had introduced they might stand numerous candidates within the forthcoming 2015 Basic Election and had put collectively a manifesto largely as they walked the quick distance from the pub to a Poor Doorways protest.
Class Struggle didn’t anticipate to win any seats – and even save their deposits, however “to launch a livid and coordinated political offensive towards the ruling class with the chance an election offers us to speak politics to our class.” And so they meant to “make ourselves central to the marketing campaign in a humorous, rumbustious combative and imaginative method.”
One of many key pledges of their manifesto was for a 50% mansion tax, and it was additionally a coverage on a somewhat much less punitive scale for the then Labour get together (now not in existence.) And a number of other well-known and filthy wealthy folks had voiced their objections together with Griff Rhys Jones who mentioned he would depart the nation if Labour levied a mansion tax.
On Saturday twenty second November a small group from Class Struggle, together with two of their election candidates Marina Pepper went to protest on the £7 million residence of Griff Rhys Jones in Fitzroy Sq., telling him to “f**ok off now“, providing to pay the fare.
Class Struggle rang on the bell although no one got here to reply it, though there have been indicators of motion inside. They put hazard tape across the space exterior the home earlier than going for a stroll across the sq., pausing for one more transient protest exterior the house of Man Ritchie, one other millionaire objector to a mansion tax.
Persevering with across the sq., subsequent to the home the place each George Bernard Shaw and later Virginia Woolf each lived, they got here throughout the Magistrates Affiliation – who obtained one other sticker, as did the locked gates into the non-public backyard within the centre of the sq..
Having gone across the sq. they arrived again exterior Griff Rhys Jones’s home the place they stopped for a bunch {photograph} and some extra minutes of protest earlier than leaving for a close-by pub. I might have appreciated to affix them however needed to rush to a different occasion.
Class Struggle Griff Rhys Jones Mansion Tax
Nonetheless No Justice for Ricky Bishop – Brixton
Ricky Bishop, a match younger black man, died from unexplained accidents hours after being taken to Brixton Police Station on 22 Nov 2001. Household and supporters name it a modern-day lynching and march yearly to recollect him and name for justice.
Ricky Bishop was a match younger black man when taken into Brixton Police Station on 22 Nov 2001, however hours later he died from unexplained accidents. His household and supporters name his dying a modern-day lynching and march yearly to recollect him and name for justice.
Folks met in Windrush Sq. and marched slowly to the police station, calling out the names of the officers they accuse of murdering him, to carry a memorial occasion across the tree exterior which has been adopted as a remembrance tree for Ricky Bishop and the others killed there by police.
Among the many audio system was Marcia Rigg who spoke forcefully of the lengthy battle to get any correct investigation into the dying in he police station of her brother Sean Rigg in August 2008. Whereas she was talking there have been shouts from officers contained in the police station accusing her and the household of mendacity concerning the police.
I felt shocked and disgusted that police nonetheless really feel the killing folks as they did Sean Rigg is defensible and go to nice lengths to stop correct investigation, giving police virtually whole immunity from the results of their actions.
Though most of the over 3,000 custody deaths between 1969 and 2011 could not have been the results of deliberate actions or failures, there has not been a single officer efficiently prosecuted, regardless of appreciable proof of wrongdoing. As an alternative we have now seen repeated situations of failures to correctly examine and interview officers, collusion to offer false statements, pointless holding up of instances, disallowing of proof, deceptive of juries and different means, together with failures of each the Crown Prosecution Service and the so-called Unbiased Police Complaints Fee.
Many extra footage of the march and memorial on My London Diary at Nonetheless No Justice for Ricky Bishop.
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