Protest march to US Embassy, Saturday Jan twenty first 2006
Seventeen years in the past now looks like one other age. And my submit on this protest on My London Diary seems to be somewhat completely different to these on newer occasions in varied methods. Not least in that you’ll want to scroll down the web page to search out the each the story and the photographs.
2006 was maybe when ‘My London Diary’ started to noticeably submit about protests in London, although there are some from earlier years since 1999 on-line. Though I’d switched to digital on the finish of 2002 I used to be working for a number of years with each digital and movie, partly as a result of for some time didn’t have good wide-angle lenses for my Nikon digital digital camera. However though I’d had a D100 after which a D70, neither was actually nearly as good a digital camera to work with as my movie cameras, with somewhat dim, small viewfinder photos.
The D200 which I purchased as quickly because it got here out on the finish of 2005 improved that considerably, and by the beginning of 2006 I had lenses that would cowl the vary in DX format from 12mm to 125mm (equal to 18-187mm) in addition to a fisheye. Though the D100 had been usable, this was the primary digital digital camera I owned that felt a superb digital camera to make use of.
To date I’ve solely revealed two books of my protest photos, one with the title ‘2006: My London Diary‘ which incorporates single photos from most of the protests I lined in that yr, and the second, a less expensive journal with my photos of the Class Struggle ‘Poor Doorways’ protests in 2014-5.
Again in 2006 there have been nonetheless an variety of males with British resident standing nonetheless held in Guantanamo, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohammed, Shaker Aamer, Jamal Kiyemba, Bisher Al-Rawi, Jamal El Banna, Ahmed Errachidi, Ahmed Ben Bacha and Abdulnour Sameur, most with British wives and households, males who had labored right here and paid their taxes to this nation.
All had been being handled inhumanely, with these on starvation strike – together with Omar Deghayes – being pressure fed in a very painful method utilizing nasal tubes. A earlier assault by jail guards utilizing pepper spray had resulted in Omar dropping the sight of 1 eye.
Members of the households of those males took half within the march and so they had been represented by individuals wearing some chained collectively. The march started near Methodist Central Corridor, the place the inaugural assembly of the UN had taken place, and there British ex-Guantanamo prisoner Moazzam Begg and others together with Bruce Kent and Vanessa Redgrave spoke in regards to the disgrace the British nation really feel at our nation’s collusion on this US war-crime.
The march paused for a protest in entrance of Downing Road after which moved on down Whitheall, making its option to the USA embassy in Grosvenor Sq..
There have been extra speeches to the massive crowd participating within the protest in entrance of the US embassy, together with by the daddy of one of many detainees and Labour Pary stalwart Walter Wolfgang.
Extra photos on My London Dairy start right here. You’ll be able to learn my textual content from 2006 a way down the January 2006 web page.
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