A various set of occasions from seven years in the past on Saturday thirty first October 2015
Ripper ‘Selfies with Useless Ladies’ – Cable St, Sat 31 Oct 2015
The Fourth Wave: London Feminist Activists (LFA) protested on the Jack the Ripper ‘museum’ in opposition to Halloween occasion publicity inviting guests to take ‘selfies’ with the physique of one among his useless victims. They had been joined by comic Kate Smurthwaite, Class Battle and the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance.
LFA got here in cat masks and the Sisters of Perpetual Resistance got here of their curious triangular black hoods with a banner ‘What a Bloody Ripp-Off’ and a bucket ‘Useless Ladies Can’t Protest‘. Comic Kate Smurthwaite was there holding a poster ‘Corpses ain’t Tourism‘ and slightly late Class Battle arrived with their ‘Ladies’s Demise Brigade‘ banner.
The LFA additionally introduced a decidely unsexy blowup doll with a masks of Ripper store proprietor Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe with a Fawcett Society t-shirt ‘That is what a feminist seems to be like’, the phrase feminist crossed out and changed in pink by the phrase ‘CAPITALIST’.
Amongst those that spoke in addition to the occasion organiser had been Kate Smurthwaite and Becky Warnock whose petition in opposition to the s-called museum had bought over 12,000 signatures.
Ripper ‘Selfies with Useless Ladies’
UFFC Annual Remembrance Procession – Whitehall, Sat 31 Oct 2015
Households and buddies of individuals killed by police or in prisons made their annual march at a funereal tempo from Trafalgar Sq. to Downing St, to a rally with audio system together with these from the households of Mark Duggan, Sean Rigg, Sheku Bayoh and others.
This procession has taken place every year since1999 and you’ll see my photos from this yr when it occurred on twenty ninth October 2022.
In 2015 the march, led by relations holding banners, made its manner in silence down Whitehall earlier than erupting into a loud protest at Downing St.
Right here there have been speeches from relations together with together with Cephus “Uncle Bobby” Johnson the uncle of Oscar Grant who was killed by a police officer in Los Angeles, Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennet whose twin brother Leon Patterson was killed by Manchester police in 1992, Kadisha Brown-Burrell, whose brother Kingsley Burrell died in police custody in 2011. Shaun Corridor, the brother of Mark Duggan, shot by police in 2011 in Tottenham and Marcia Rigg whose brother Sean was killed in Brixton police station in 2008.
A small group of relations took a letter into Downing St whereas the rally continued. Though as t-shirts worn by many acknowledged there have been ‘1518 deaths in police custody since 1990′ together with many with clear proof of beating and homicide, not a single case has but resulted in any justice. Police and authorities have prevented correct investigation of instances, dedicated perjury and obstructed the course of justice to guard the officers involved.
Extra at UFFC Annual Remembrance Procession 2015.
Halloween Skate 2015 London – Hyde Park Nook, Sat 31 Oct 2015
On a really a lot lighter degree I met with London Friday Evening Skate at Hyde Park the place they had been to start their annual Halloween skate in various Halloween costumes.
I didn’t attempt to observe them after they left to skate their prolonged route by means of Mayfair, Soho, Covent Backyard to an after-party at a pub close to Kings Cross.
UVW Hamlet-themed Barbican Flash-mob – Barbican Centre, Sat 31 Oct 2015
‘Alas Poor Yorick Acquired No Sick Pay‘ was the message on the cranium held up by the Cleaners union United Voices of the World as they staged a protest on the final night time of a season there of Hamlet.
The had been protesting for full cost of the residing wage and sick pay for the cleaners there and and an finish to the usage of workfare within the centre. The cleaners usually are not immediately employed by the Barbican and get far worse circumstances of service and therapy than immediately employed staff from the outsourcing firm which the Barbican has a contract with.
The Shakespearian theme was continued in posters resembling ‘To Be or To not Be… Paid a Dwelling Wage‘ and ‘To Be or To not Be… Paid Sick Pay‘ whereas these theatre-goers seeing the protest had been urged to tweet images and movies with hashtag #Hamlet.
Among the many protesters had been Inexperienced Social gathering chief Natalie Bennett and Sandy Nicoll, at the moment suspended SOAS Department Secretary, and there have been banners ‘Boycott Workfare’ and from ‘Unite the Resistance’ as nicely the UVW banner. A number of from Class Battle had additionally come to help the cleaners.
There had been a few cops current after I arrived on time for the protest, however they’d disappeared nicely earlier than the UVW turned up round 20 minutes late. Barbican safety employees made some makes an attempt to maneuver the protesters on, however I think about they’re additionally outsources on awful phrases and circumstances and that their hearts had been not likely in it.
Ultimately after numerous speeches and a few noisy chanting the police returned and talked with the UVW Normal Secretary Petros Elia who was main the protest. He informed them that the protesters had been about to depart earlier than tonight’s Hamlet was as a consequence of begin and proceed the protest outdoors the primary entrance, they usually then did so.
Outdoors the Barbican we joined a few of the cleaners who work within the Barbican who had stayed outdoors and the protest continued with a rally on the street.
UVW Hamlet-themed Barbican Flash-mob
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