Immigration, Lions, Poverty Pay & Palestine: Ten years in the past on Friday thirteenth March 2015 I photographed 4 very totally different protests in London, starting exterior an immigration tribunal in Feltham, going from there to Trafalgar Sq. the place folks the place protesting towards ‘canned looking’ of lions, on to Kensington Gore the place cleaners had been demanding a residing wage on the Royal Faculty of Artwork and eventually to the places of work of G4S on Victoria St, Westminster for a protest towards the imprisonment and torture of 4 younger Palestinian boys by Israel.
Let Ife Keep within the UK! – York Home Immigration Tribunal, Feltham
York Home the place the Immigration Tribunal relies is on an industrial property midway between Feltham and Heathrow on the western fringes of London and protesters had not discovered it straightforward to get there. I arrived just a little late and different protesters solely arrived shortly earlier than I left, with others nonetheless on their means.
The protest had been held up in the beginning when safety on the tribunal had informed the protesters they weren’t allowed to protest exterior the places of work, and had known as the police. However the police had come and confirmed that not solely that they had the precise to protest there but in addition that individuals may take pictures exterior the tribunal – although after all cameras and recording tools weren’t allowed contained in the tribunal.
The protesters had come to demand that 2-year-old Ife, who had Down’s syndrome, and her mom must be allowed to remain at their Peckham dwelling the place she will be able to obtain important healthcare and help and never be deported to Nigeria. They meant to remain till after the tip of the tribunal listening to later within the day.
The protesters from the Revolutionary Communist Group had introduced with them posters coated with the sheets of a neighborhood petition to maintain Ife right here with almost a thousand signatures, as effectively was posters denouncing the UK’s racist immigration legal guidelines and in addition calling for justice for Jimmy Mubenga, killed by racist G4S deportation officers throughout his pressured deportation flight from Britain.
Save Our Lions – ban Canned Looking – Trafalgar Sq.
A number of hundred gathered in Trafalgar Sq. to protest towards ‘canned looking’, the place lions are bred and raised tame on farms in South Africa for wealthy guests to pet, to ‘stroll with lions’ and to shoot as trophy heads.
The protesters say this degrades a noble animals and threatens wild lions, that are captured for farm breeding to enhance the standard of the inventory.
Solely very younger cubs are secure to pet and younger feminine lions are sometimes killed as soon as they grow to be too giant to pet as there may be a lot much less demand for feminine lions as looking trophies.
After speeches and images on the North Terrace I used to be invited to go along with one of many protesters to South Africa Home the place he stood within the entrance with a placard and poster till safety informed us to depart.
Save Our Lions – ban Canned Looking
Poverty pay on the Royal Faculty of Artwork – Kensington Gore
I met with protesters from the IWGB (Unbiased Employees’ Union of Nice Britain) on the Royal Faculty of Artwork the place that they had come at lunchtime to demand that cleaners be instantly paid the London Residing Wage. Earlier stress from the IWGB had led to the RCA saying it might pay the residing wage from September 2015, however the cleaners wanted it now, not in sixth months time.
After a loud protest exterior the school entrance in a mews simply off the primary street the place they had been joined by round 50 college students in help the marched onto Kensington Gore for a extra public protest on the east aspect of the school dealing with the Royal Albert Corridor.
Right here there have been speeches and chanting and quite a lot of noise from the drums and vuvuzelas earlier than the protesters went again to proceed their protest on the school entrance.
From right here they moved additional down the mews and to an virtually enclosed yard on the rear of the school subsequent to a eating space maintaining a barrage of noise. After maintaining their loud protest for round an hour they completed with a warning to RCA administration that they’d be again and sustain the protests till their calls for had been met.
Poverty pay on the Royal Faculty of Artwork
Free the Hares boys protest at G4S – Victoria St
British multinational personal safety firm G4S performs a key function in operating jails in Israel the place hundreds of Palestinians are held.
Among the many prisoners being held and tortured had been 5 younger boys from Hares within the northern West Financial institution of Palestine, and the Islamic Inminds Human Rights Group had been protesting exterior the G4S places of work on Victoria St demanding their speedy launch.
The boys had been arrested after an Israeli unlawful settler crashed into the again of an Israeli truck they usually had been alleged to have precipitated the collision by throwing stones.
That had occurred two years earlier and the boys had now been held with out trial for 2 years for the alleged crime – for which there seemed to be no proof.
One of many 5, Mohammed Mahdi Saleh Suleiman, was convicted by a army courtroom and sentenced to fifteen years in jail on the idea of an announcement obtained by torture that he was not allowed to learn earlier than being pressured to signal.
In 2016 the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention revealed its opinion on his case. They known as his detention ‘discriminatory’ and ‘arbitrary’ and known as for his speedy launch by Israel. Israel ignores most if not all UN opinions.
Free the Hares boys protest at G4S
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