Saturday tenth February 2024 – Gaza & Iran – Saturday tenth February was one other day of native actions across the nation calling for and finish to the horrific genocide now happening in Gaza. I went to 2 of the native occasions in London in addition to photographing an annual occasion on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, calling for democracy there.
Ceasefire Now – Cease The Genocide In Gaza, Southwark
Southwark and Lambeth 4 Palestine had organised one other march from Camberwell Inexperienced to BAE Techniques places of work on Southwark Avenue towards the horrible genocide now being carried out by Israeli forces in Gaza. It turned out to be somewhat smaller than earlier native marches, maybe as a result of many individuals within the space had demonstrated in workplace-based protests earlier within the week.
The occasion began with just a few brief speeches on Camberwell Inexperienced, together with one from a pupil activist from the UAL on the Elephant the place they’d had a big protest. She talked about how she had been impressed by the instance of Brian Haw’s protest over a few years in Parliament Sq. who had carried on calling for peace and an ending to the killing of kids till shortly earlier than his demise in June 2011, nearly ten years after his protest there had begun.
(T-shirt from Dan Wilkins, The Nth Diploma.)March 2007, Peter Marshall
I bought to know Brian properly, going to talk with him each time I went to {photograph} in Westminster and infrequently photographing him, as you possibly can see on-line at My London Diary. He suffered common harassment from police, council officers and thugs inspired by the authorities, a few of whom have been I feel plain garments officers or army. An Act of Parliament was handed largely to attempt to finish his peace camp there, although it additionally severely restricted different protests inside a kilometre of Parliament.
Later, after his ill-health took him to hospital, his protest there was continued by Barbara Tucker who had joined his marketing campaign there in 2005. She was subjected to much more extreme police harassment, was arrested at the least 47 instances and served two durations in jail, of two weeks and 9 weeks. In January 2012 police eliminated her safety towards the weather – tent, blankets and sleeping bag and later they got here again for her chair. She continued to protest there regardless of needing hospital remedy for publicity till Could 2013.
The march set off with round 100 folks marching behind the banner although extra joined the later on the finish. There was appreciable assist from folks on the roadside, notably when it went previous the busy part of Walworth Highway near East Avenue Market, and lots of drivers entering into the other way beeped their horns in assist. Though the UK authorities continues its assist of the Israeli genocide clearly the vast majority of the British folks don’t.
I discovered it a somewhat lengthy march – properly over two and a half miles – and was wishing I’ve introduced my bicycle by the point we bought to the Bluefin Constructing on Southwark Avenue. The march stopped for a couple of minutes in entrance of the constructing the place BAE Techniques have places of work on an higher flooring.
BAE Techniques is the world’s seventh-largest army contractor, and the biggest in Europe and provides Israel with a variety of weapons which for years have been used towards Palestinian residents and civilian infrastructure “together with hospitals, colleges, and water and electrical techniques.” There may be rather more about their actions in arming Israel on the American Pals Service Committee web page.
After we arrived at Bluefin, we noticed that others had been there earlier than us, and a big space of the frontage had been sprayed with purple paint. A workforce of contractors have been busy cleansing it off. I took just a few photos of them because the marchers moved off down the facet of the constructing for an additional rally, however I walked again to Southwark Station to catch the Elizabeth line to Westminster.
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Iranians Name For Freedom and Democracy in Iran
45 years after the Shah of Iran was pressured into exile by a well-liked revolution following repression underneath the Pahvlavi regime, the Anglo-Iranian group and the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran name for a brand new revolution to finish the oppressive theocratic regime with democracy and for the UK to declare the Islamic Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group.
They are saying Khomeini who had been invited again by the performing authorities after the revolution stole the management of the nation revolution in a rigged vote, imposing the present oppressive theocratic regime.
The Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has put ahead a ten level plan for a future democratic republic in Iran, with secular authorities, democratic elections, freedom of expression, equal rights for girls and human rights and an impartial judiciary and authorized system.
The NCRI is a coalition with illustration from 5 our bodies, the foremost of which is the Folks’s Mojahedin Group of Iran (PMOI), which presently has its headquarters in Albania. It was largely disarmed after the US/UK invasion of Iraq and its camp in Iraq was attacked after US forces withdrew.
On Feb 1st this yr, the Home of Commons agreed to a movement in assist of freedom and democracy in Iran. The movement condemns the violent state crackdown on the protests and urgest the federal government to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
As I left the protest, two males got here to try to disrupt the protest and there have been transient scuffles as safety and others tried to maneuver them away. After a couple of minutes police got here and held certainly one of them, speaking to him and suggesting he depart – the opposite was already just a few yard down the highway.
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Ceasefire Now – Cease The Genocide In Gaza, Ealing, London, UK
I used to be on my approach to Ealing, thankfully a a lot quicker journey now the Elizabeth Line goes to Ealing Broadway, though I nonetheless arrived properly after the rally outdoors the city corridor there had began. There was a big crowd across the steps on the primary highway in entrance of Ealing City Corridor, one other of the numerous native protests across the nation calling for an instantaneous ceasefire and an finish to the genocide in Gaza which has now killed 28,000 primarily girls and youngsters and severely injured round 68,000.
All the inhabitants of Gaza is now dwelling in determined situations with fixed risk of bombing, shelling, famine and illness. Audio system condemned the failure to reply to the ICJ ruling to forestall acts of genocide and for the continued killing happening there with precision focused assaults on ambulances, support staff, colleges, hospitals, refugee camps, medical employees, journalists and others.
I feel a lot of the audio system have been from Ealing and Southall, however Grenfell campaigner Moyra Samuels had additionally come to talk each in regards to the shameful assault on Gaza and in addition share some experiences of campaigning over the Grenfell hearth, the place continued protests had helped to maintain the struggle for justice alive – although there may be little signal of justice to date.
I left because the rally was coming to an in depth, taking my ultimate photos of it from the highest deck of the bus which was taking me to Brentford and a practice dwelling from there.
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