Goodbye & Good Riddance 2023: Aside from a protest by Simply Cease Oil in opposition to the best way their protests are being policed and non-violent protesters being given prolonged jail sentences due to political stress by our authorities which has continued to maneuver away from our concepts of liberal democracy in the direction of a police state, all however one of many different occasions I photographed have been concerning the persevering with genocide of the folks of Gaza. Increasingly more civilians – males, girls and particularly kids – have been being killed daily, extra compelled to maneuver out of their properties with nowhere protected to go, and an growing humanitarian disaster – with many employees for aid companies additionally being killed by Israeli forces.
The scenario in Brixton was relatively confused and I bought completely different tales from completely different folks. The police too have been arguing with one another for a lot of the time earlier than a Senior Commander arrived, stopped one other officer who had been making an attempt to calm the scenario and introduced in reinforcements. There have been no less than two arrests, one for carrying a placard which I believe in contrast not directly the actions of Israel in Gaza with these of the Nazis and the second for damaging a police automobile.
It was nearly the tip of the yr. Christmas too was overshadowed by the information of latest killings and growing struggling in Gaza. Christmas festivities have been cancelled in Bethlehem, and the Nativity scene on the The Evangelical Lutheran Church there confirmed the new child Jesus wrapped in a kaffiyeh an a heap of rubble to point out solidarity with the folks of Gaza.
Like many others I greeted the passing of 2023 on the finish of New Yr’s Eve with thanks that 2023 was over and the hope that 2024 would see a greater yr for us all. However maybe that hope was realistically solely a glimmer.
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