Roma, Olympic Park and Thoughts: After a morning protest by Roma on the Czech Embassy in Kensington I took a stroll across the Olympic Park in Stratford earlier than becoming a member of the Psychological Well being Resistance Community (MHRN) and Disabled Individuals In opposition to Cuts (DPAC) who have been holding a Halloween Demo on the nationwide workplace of Thoughts.
Roma protest Czech Homicide – Czech embassy, Kensington
Ladislav Balaz, Chair of the Roma Labour Group and Europe Roma Community and others had come handy in a letter calling for the homicide of a younger Romani man by neo-Nazi skinheads in Žatec to be correctly investigated.
The person who had lived within the UK till a 12 months in the past was a second cousin of Balaz. He was set upon as he went to purchase cigarettes at a pizzeria.
Most circumstances of murders of Roma within the Czech Republic are dismissed by police as accidents and so they have already issued false tales in regards to the sufferer, claiming he was mentally in poor health and attacked individuals. The Roma demand justice and equality for everybody in Czech Republic and the elimination of any double requirements of justice. A number of of the protesters made speeches in Czech because the letter was offered.
A Stroll within the Olympic Park – Stratford
I had a number of hours between the protest exterior the Czech Embassy and a protest in Stratford Excessive Avenue and determined it was event to take one other stroll within the park at Stratford which had been the positioning of the 2012 London olympic video games and to make some extra panoramic photos.
It was a 12 months since I had been there, and 4 years because the Olympics and I had hoped to see the park in significantly better situation than I discovered it. Appreciable progress had been made within the buildings that are capturing up round it and lots of the methods into the park are nonetheless closed.
I walked round a lot of the southern space of the park and located it nonetheless “largely an arid and alienating house composed primarily of vast empty walkways fairly than a park.”
I took fairly a variety of footage, each panoramic and extra regular views earlier than it was time to make my manner again via the Westfield buying centre into the centre of Stratford.
Many extra footage at A Stroll within the Olympic Park.
In opposition to Thoughts’s collusion with the DWP – Stratford
The Psychological Well being Resistance Community (MHRN) and Disabled Individuals In opposition to Cuts (DPAC) got here for a Halloween Demo on the nationwide workplace of psychological well being charity Thoughts in Stratford.
They complain that Thoughts failed to say the results of welfare reform, sanctions, or benefit-related deaths in its newest five-year technique and has dropped its assist for the long-running court docket case geared toward forcing the federal government to make WCA safer for individuals with psychological well being circumstances.
Thoughts’s coverage and campaigns supervisor Tom Pollard had been seconded to work as a senior coverage adviser to the DWP and was to start out the next day and so they demanded the resignation of Thoughts’s chief govt, Paul Farmer.
Farmer got here out to satisfy the protesters on the pavement and advised them that Thoughts was nonetheless working for individuals with psychological well being issues and never for the DWP, and that Pollard’s resolution had been solely a private one as a way to achieve extra perception into the workings of presidency fairly than to help them within the any discrimination towards the disabled.
The protesters have been unconvinced and after he had completed talking a number of spoke about how native Thoughts teams have been working towards the pursuits of these with psychological well being issues. They claimed the native managers have been typically extra focused on empire constructing than within the welfare of profit claimants.
Extra footage at Thoughts’s collusion with the DWP.
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