Magna Carta, Cleaners & Detention: fifteenth June is Magna Carta day and Monday fifteenth June 2015 marked 800 years since King John was compelled by the barons to signal the nice constitution at Runnymede. Most years the date is principally marked by an area truthful on the closest Saturday in Egham Excessive Road the closest city to Runnymede, however in 2015 there have been numerous extra nationwide celebrations.
Until you had been a king, archhishop or baron in 1215, Magna Carta was of little relevance to you. Opposite to standard opinion it gave no rights or safety to the frequent folks and, as Wikipedia tells us had little rapid impact in any case, as “Neither aspect stood by their commitments, and the constitution was annulled by Pope Harmless III, resulting in the First Barons’ Conflict.”
Again in June 2012 I had sat round in a circle with the Diggers, then camped at Runnymede, on the grass subsequent to the US Bar Affiliation’s Magna Carta Memorial, the place we had listened to a historical past lecturer from close by Royal Holloway College in regards to the constitution and the lesser-known however extra related to the frequent man ‘Constitution of the Forest’ which got here shortly after. It was at this assembly that plans had been made to rejoice the occasion in 2015 with a folks’s free pageant within the woods on the hillside above Runnymede.
Sadly the institution thought in any other case and in a transparent case of ignoring the rights supposedly granted to us in Magna Carta, police swooped on the eco-village the place the pageant was being ready three days earlier than, suppressing the occasion in an unfair, arbitrary and virtually definitely unlawful method.
So whereas I would in any other case have been having fun with myself on the free pageant, as a substitute I travelled as much as London to {photograph} a number of occasions there primarily related with Magna Carta Day.
Reality & Justice Magna Carta Day Protest
I started exterior the Royal Courts of Justice the place the Marketing campaign for Reality & Justice was accusing the judiciary of illegal convictions, false imprisonment, denial of entry to courtroom & perverting the course of justice over baby abuse, compelled adoption and paedophilia.
Above their heads was a banner with its message superimposed on a St George’s flag citing Magna Carta. A few of these participating had been victims of kid abuse, whereas others claimed to have been handled badly within the household courts the place gagging orders had been used to stop them from speaking about their circumstances or looking for any redress. And we now have definitely seen many circumstances of miscarriages of justice – together with the convictions of the Guildford 4 (1974), The Birmingham Six (1975), The Maguire Seven (1976) and Judith Ward (1974) in addition to many others which have acquired much less publicity.
However because the trial and conviction of Carl Beech for perverting the course of justice and fraud in 2019 made clear, lots of the allegations over paedophilia in opposition to public figures have been unfounded.
Voice for Justice UK Magna Carta Protest
From there I went to Outdated Palace Yard reverse Parliament, the place the right-wing Christians For Justice UK had been holding a Magna Carta Day rally in opposition to the rising human rights laws which right-wing Christians really feel maginalises and forestall them expressing their religion.
I reported that I listened to “ two speeches which appalled me, and appeared to don’t have any reference to my thought of freedom, reminding of varied short-lived ultra-right political teams such because the Freedom Celebration, fashioned in 2000 by ex-BNP members” and concluded “that this was a rally that was protesting the liberty to be a bigot quite than any actual thought of spiritual or different freedom.”
Cleaners Worldwide Justice Day
However the day was not merely about Magna Carta. The protest by the PSC commerce union exterior HM Income and Customs in Whitehall was certainly one of protests in over 50 international locations on the twenty fifth Worldwide Justice Day for Cleaners and Safety Guards.
This remembers the day in 1990 when Los Angeles janitors had been brutally crushed up by the police throughout a peaceable demonstration in opposition to their contractor making an attempt to get union recognition and higher rights. Since 1990 at the present time has turn into worldwide, spreading to over 50 international locations and with protests -some very small like this – now happening in over 70 cities world wide.
Shut Yarls Wooden, Finish Detention!
This was additionally the Worldwide week in opposition to detention centres, calling for the closure of all immigration detention centres with protests happening in eleven cities within the UK, USA, Belgium, Greece and Spain.
The London protest was led by the All African Girls’s Group who held a rally in Parliament Sq. earlier than marching to Downing Road with a report on rape and sexual abuse in Yarl’s Wooden.
Among the many audio system was whistleblower Noel Finn, a former psychological well being nurse at Yarl’s Wooden who revealed publicly particulars of the abuse of ladies there after his complaints by the right channels on the detention jail weren’t acted on. Numerous members of the All African Girls’s Group spoke about their very own experiences when held within the detention jail. Others who got here to talk in help included MPs Dianne Abbott, Kate Osamor, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell in addition to Antonia Shiny from Motion for Justice, Peter Tatchell and Selma James.
The protest demonstrated in a number of respects the rising limitations on our freedom to protest. Protests at the moment are prohibited on the primary grass space of the sq. they usually needed to maintain the rally on the slender pavement space, inevitably spilling over onto the roadway due to the massive variety of folks current.
After the rally had been happening for round 20 minutes a police officer got here to try to cease them utilizing a public deal with system, now unlawful within the sq. with out authorisation from the Better London Authority or Westminster Council. They argued and refused to cease, and with a number of MPs ready to talk the officer lastly left.
And when the protesters tried to had in a letter at Downing Road it was initially refused. Apparently you now want to provide every week’s discover at hand in a letter. After some dialogue a police officer agreed to take the report and guarantee it was delivered to No 10. I don’t know whether or not it did finally get there.
Shut Yarls Wooden, Finish Detention!
Cleaners International Justice Day
Voice for Justice UK Magna Carta Protest
Reality & Justice Magna Carta Day Protest
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