Hong Kong, Fur, Brixton & Carnaby – There have been 5 occasions listed in my diary for Saturday twenty third November 2019, however I solely photographed two of them, the Stand With Hong Kong march and rally and the annual March Towards Fur, although I missed the others. However I did take a few quick walks. I can’t bear in mind now why I went to Brixton, however my journey to Carnaby Road was to see a small exhibition in a store I had three photos in.
Stand With Hong Kong – Westminster
Sadly the concept the British Authorities may in 2019 have any actual affect on China over the breaches of Sino-British Joint Declaration agreed in 1984 when Margaret Thatcher was in energy was all the time an phantasm.
In 2014 the Chinese language authorities had stated it regarded the settlement had already met its goals following the handover in 1997 they usually regarded it as now having no authorized impact. The British authorities disagree however haven’t any risk of doing something to alter Chinese language minds or actions.
So whereas I had nice sympathy with folks of Hong Kong who had been protesting there in addition to their supporters in international international locations together with UK, it was clear that these protests wouldn’t change insurance policies in Hong Kong.
Lastly the British authorities needed to admit this and it led to the establishing of the Hong Kong British Nationwide (Abroad) visa scheme in 2021, which allowed Hong Kong British Nationwide (Abroad) residents (BNOs) and their shut members of the family to maneuver the the UK for 5 years after which they will apply for depart to stay and, after an extra 12 months for British citizenship.
Maybe protests equivalent to these did affect the federal government in how the scheme was arrange, with a reasonably beneficiant interpretation of the foundations governing members of the family, though the path to changing into a British citizen appears unnecessarily lengthy and sophisticated.
BNO standing was arrange by an Act of Parliament following the 1984 declaration for Hong Kong residents who wished to retain a reference to the UK after the handover to China and needed to be claimed earlier than that too place in 1997. A couple of third of Hong Kong residents had BNO standing and the scheme would additionally permit an analogous variety of their households to get visas.
Though the whole variety of folks eligible to come back to the UK was considered over 5 million, the quantity anticipated to take up the supply was anticipated to be round 320,000 and to date is barely roughly half this. Though less expensive than different visa schemes it stays fairly costly as a well being cost can be utilized and for a household with one little one the whole prices over the interval to acquire British citizenship is round £20,000.
March Towards Fur 2019
After a rally in Leicester Sq. the march set off via central London.
The march went alongside the pavement alongside Charing Cross Highway, which was extraordinarily crowded.
Although it spilled out onto the highway.
Though the primary focus of the numerous posters was towards fur and the ending of the fur commerce, the primary banner known as for an finish to all types of animal oppression and plenty of on the march had been vegans.
I left the march because it turned down Shaftesbury Avenue for a tour of the West Finish and shops promoting fur merchandise, calling for an finish not simply to utilizing fur in clothes however towards all exploitation of animals of all species, whether or not for meat, dairy, wool, leather-based or different merchandise.
Extra photos at March Towards Fur 2019
Brixton & Carnaby Road
First Little one by Raymond Watson, a memorial to 116 youngsters murdered by the Afrikaner police drive in Soweto in 1976 was the primary public sculpture by a Black artist within the UK, commissioned in 1998 by the 198 Gallery.
Bon Marché, Britains first goal constructed division retailer, was opened in 1877. Its founder went bankrupt however the retailer continued in enterprise with numerous homeowners till 1975. Since then it has been refurbished with nearly all floor flooring element misplaced.
I paid a short go to to Carnaby Road the place 3 of my photos had been within the window of a store known as Measurement? in a brief show celebrating the apparently iconic Nike Air Max 90 launched in 1990. I took the three quite maroon photographs on this image of the window and the one on the proper, taken at Notting Hill Carnival in 1990 reveals a person in quite lengthy shorts sporting these trainers. There have been ten panels within the show, the opposite 9 utilizing later photos taken by different photographers.
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