The march from Trafalgar Sq. to the Ecuadorian Embassy on Saturday March 1st 2014 wasn’t an enormous occasion, though its goals have been all-embracing. These attending have been appalled on the state of the UK and the world and believed that a greater world is feasible if solely we might do away with the grasping and corrupt who at the moment are in change – the get together politicians and their governments, the bankers and the firms, the warmongers and the spies.
If solely. Whereas I share lots of their views and aspirations, these in cost are in cost as a result of they’ve the ability, the cash, the management of the media, the armies and extra and usually are not about to offer them up willingly.
Politically the one actual problem to them has come from folks like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Saunders and the institution made mincemeat of them with no-holds barred soiled methods, false claims, lies and misrepresentation. And even when Corbyn had been elected – regardless of many in his get together conspiring in opposition to him to throw the 2017 election it was a close-run factor and a united get together would have gained simply – he would have discovered it unattainable to implement lots of his insurance policies.
These coming for this protest need issues that many need – and which might – like Corbyn – have huge fashionable assist. As I wrote “they need justice and a fairer society, one which doesn’t oppress the poor and disabled, that doesn’t spy on everybody and doesn’t use the media and the entire cultural equipment as a method of conserving blind to what’s actually taking place.“
On My London Diary I unusually report fairly a big chunk of a speech on the occasion by one of many organisers, Mitch Antony of Aspire Worldwide, which I seldom do. Normally I’m too busy taking pictures to pay a substantial amount of consideration to the speeches at occasions, and at most simply jot down in longhand a number of important phrases, by no means having managed to be taught shorthand. I did use to hold a small voice recorder, and these days might do it on my telephone, however listening and transcribing usually exhausting to listen to speeches is simply too time-consuming.
The ‘Mike-Examine’ of many Occupy-inspired protests the place brief phrases are repeated by the group, usually as a substitute the place amplification is both not out there or prohibited – as in a lot of the world round Parliament – does make it simpler to observe and report, as does the repetition in Antony’s speech, which concluded with the collection of statements beneath.
We march in opposition to World Authorities Corruption
We march in opposition to ideological austerity
We march in opposition to privatisation for revenue
We march in opposition to the bed room tax
We march in opposition to bankers bonuses
We march in opposition to the corrupt MPs
We march in opposition to state spying on the folks
We march in opposition to state managed media
We march in opposition to authorities misrepresentation
We march in opposition to warmongering
We march in opposition to world tyranny
We march in opposition to state sponsored terrorism
We march in opposition to the navy industrial advanced
We march in opposition to the militarisation of the police
We march in opposition to the suppression of other energies
Sadly since 2014, we’ve seen nearly all of this stuff on the rise, and Julian Assange, then contained in the Ecuadorian Embassy continues to be imprisoned, now in our most safety jail, Belmarsh, awaiting the Residence Secretary’s determination on whether or not to extradite him to the USA the place he faces a 175 12 months sentence for the ‘crime’ of publishing the reality about battle crimes, corruption and local weather coverage.
Trafalgar Sq., as soon as a public sq., has more and more beeen employed out for industrial occasions, and was being received prepared for one the next day, which meant that the marketed assembly level for this march was unavailable, however there was room simply throughout the highway within the island on the prime of Whitehall. Some making an attempt to attend gave up searching for it, however others persevered and slowly the numbers grew – and after some speeches set off.
It was a really visible occasion, with many attention-grabbing characters participating, some well-known to me from earlier protests. Its route took it down Pall Mall and on to Harvey Nicholls in Knightsbridge the place for a short time they joined a protest outdoors the shop by the Marketing campaign Towards the Fur Commerce.
On the Ecuadorian Embassy the place Assange was holed up in a small flat (the embassy itself is only some rooms in a bigger constructing) there have been too many for the small pen reverse, however they refused in any case to maintain to this, quickly swarming throughout the highway. The march had attracted an over-large police presence, and this was maybe the one place a few of them have been wanted to occupy the steps in entrance of the group.
The protest continued right here for round an hour in assist of of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden and different whistle blowers and over the continued refusal to grant Assange protected passage to Ecuador, one thing that appears to be an private vendetta by Residence Secretary Theresa Could. Policing this has been an costly enterprise and by the top of 2013 had value the UK taxpayer round £5.3 million. Maybe Could ought to have been made to pay.
The protesters hadn’t completed and have been marching again to Parliament Sq. for one more rally, however I wanted to depart and file my report and photos from the protest – and to get some dinner.
Way more on My London Diary at Towards Worldwide Authorities Corruption.
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