Honest Fares, Kobane and Biomass: Ten years in the past on Tuesday twenty eighth October 2014 I photographed protests calling for fairer fares on our railways, an finish to the Turkish backed Islamic state invasion of Kobane in Kurdish Syria and at last calling on the Inexperienced Funding Financial institution to finish funding for vastly local weather wrecking investments in utilizing biomass for energy technology.
Honest Fares Petition – Westminster
The Marketing campaign for Higher Transport, together with their director Stephen Joseph OBE protested on the Dept of Transport earlier than strolling to Portcullis Hous at hand a petition with over 4000 signatures to Rail Minister Claire Perry MP calling on the latest enhance in Northern Rail night peak rail fares to be scrapped. My very own rail fares additionally elevated by round a 3rd if I must return from London between 4pm and 7pm, although the night peak solely actually begins round 5pm.
Now we have the costliest rail journey on this planet, largely because of privatisation, in addition to decrease ranges of service than many firms, and a vastly advanced system of ticketing which frequently ends in passengers paying greater than obligatory.
Labours Passenger Railway Providers (Public Possession) Invoice ought to ultimately herald a less complicated extra uniform construction for the railways and we are able to hope that it would make fares easier to grasp – and maybe even more cost effective. Presently it’s usually cheaper to journey by much less inexperienced modes of transport, even by air.
We additionally want to maneuver away from the businesses which lease trains and pay out enormous dividends to their shareholders to a extra smart system through which the railways really personal trains and be certain that they supply extra carriages on providers which are actually closely overcrowded – which appear to incorporate virtually all CrossCountry trains. Their franchise ends in October 2027.
Kobane – Unite towards Isis Drawing – Trafalgar Sq.
Kurds stood round a large chalk drawing on the North Terrace of Trafalgar Sq. together with the Statue of Liberty and the message ‘KOBANE Unite towards ISIS‘ maintain small posters “assist progressive and left forces towards ISIS” and “Assist Kobani Battle“.
The ISIS forces attacking Kobane, near the Turkish border in a Kurdish area of Syria have been being supported by Turkey as part of their struggle towards the Kurds,
The principle opposition to ISIS is supplied by Syrian Kurdish Individuals’s Safety Models (YPG), who have been being supported by US air strikes.
Kobane – Unite towards Isis Drawing
Biofuel picket Inexperienced Funding Financial institution Birthday – King Edward Avenue
Protesters from Biofuelwatch and London Biomassive, some dressed as smart owls, picketed the second birthday celebrations of the Inexperienced Funding Financial institution at Financial institution of America Merrill Lynch in London towards their funding of environmentally disastrous biomass and incineration tasks.
These are extra polluting than coal, producing extra climate-wrecking carbon dioxide than coal, and protesters urged the GIB to finance “low carbon sustainable options” as an alternative of those “high-carbon harmful delusions.”
The protest happened as many metropolis employees have been strolling previous on their manner residence and plenty of took leaflets and a few stopped to speak with the protesters.
There was stay music, some brief speeches and couple of birthday desserts for the GIB, one edible and the opposite moderately bigger with two ‘oil palms’ on high and a banner with the message ‘GIB No Biomass’ strung between them.
Biofuel picket Inexperienced Funding Financial institution Birthday
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