Protests in London three years in the past right now on Saturday 14th September 2019 all with some connection to human rights violations.
Legal Abuse of Girls in South Africa – Trafalgar Sq.
Individuals, primarily girls and together with many South Africans, wearing black to protest in Trafalgar Sq. following the rape and homicide of Uyinene Mrwetyana and plenty of different girls in South Africa.
Protests have been going down throughout South Africa calling for the federal government to declare a state of emergency over gender based mostly violence, and to protest in opposition to gender-based violence internationally.
After speeches and silences on the North Terrace they moved to gentle candles for the victims on the entrance to South Africa Home.
Legal Abuse of Girls in South Africa
HSBC Cease Arming Israel – Oxford St
Protesters led by Younger London Palestine Solidarity Marketing campaign took half in a Nationwide Day of Motion exterior the Oxford St department of the HSBC Financial institution calling on it to cease its assist of navy and know-how firms that promote weapons and tools to Israel for use in opposition to Palestinians. The financial institution had closed for the protest.
Though HSBC had divested from Israel’s largest non-public weapons firm, it nonetheless owned shares in Caterpillar whose bulldozers are used to destroy Palestinian houses and assemble unlawful apartheid settlements, BAE Programs whose fighter jets assault Gaza and Raytheon which suppliers the ‘bunker buster’ bombs used to focus on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Cease Arming Israel HSBC Protest
London’s First Trans+ Delight March
Individuals met at Hyde Park Nook for this primary march within the metropolis to have a good time trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender non-conforming people and to protest in opposition to the persevering with discrimination right here and around the globe in opposition to them.
In addition to many from the trans+ group there have been household, associates and different supporters participating in an occasion which aimed to extend the visibility of trans+ folks.
Latest years have seen an growing transphobia within the British media with significantly publicity being given to the views of anti-trans activists. There was a rise in assaults assaults on trans folks on the streets, hate speech by trans-exclusionary feminists, and by right-wing nationwide and state governments around the globe.
Too typically trans+ folks around the globe are topic to human rights abuses. They’ve at all times been an integral a part of the homosexual group and on the forefront of the battle for homosexual rights – from the Stonewall riot on.
There have been just a few brief speeches earlier than the march set off, going alongside Piccadilly to a rally in Soho Sq.. I marched with them so far as Inexperienced Park the place I caught the Underground for a protest in Brixton.
London’s First Trans+ Delight March
Brixton Anti-Racist March
Motion for Justice and Lambeth Unison Black Employees’ Group have been protesting in Brixton in opposition to the persevering with persecution of Windrush relations and different migrants, calling for freedom of motion, the closure of immigration detention prisons, and an finish to Brexit which they see getting used to whip up immigrant-bashing and nationalism by Boris Johnson.
The occasion started in Windrush Sq., the place one of many audio system was Eulalee Pennant, a Jamaican great-grandmother who has been preventing the House Workplace for 16 years in opposition to deportation. Right here uncle was one of many Windrush technology, her grandfather had served within the UK armed forces for his working life, and her cousins, daughter, grandchildren and great-grandson have been British. She had labored and paid tax right here for a few years however was detained days earlier than her sixtieth birthday and locked up in Yarls Wooden, the place she contracted a critical abdomen an infection. She was nonetheless vomiting blood when the House Workplace tried to place her on a deportation flight.
Eulalee had tried to regularise her and her son’s immigration standing with the House Workplace in 2003, and among the many paperwork she despatched was her passport. The House Workplace saved claiming they didn’t have it, and it was solely in court docket 15 years later they lastly admitted they’d did not ship in again. Her son spent 5 years preventing his case to remain within the UK however was deported to Jamaica in 2008, and was murdered there the next June. Her battle in opposition to deportation has price many hundreds in authorized charges and he or she has been unable to work since 2003.
There had been comparatively few on the gathering in Windrush Sq. however there was a bigger viewers when the group marched to Brixton Market to proceed the protest there and Inexperienced MEP for London Scott Ainslie additionally got here to talk about his LDNlovesEU marketing campaign.
The group then set off to march noisily round central Brixton, returning to Windrush Sq. for some ultimate speeches.
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