Training Cuts & Egyptian Revolution: Folks have been protesting on the streets of London on Saturday twenty ninth January 2011 in solidarity with demonstrations in Egypt on the Egyptian Embassy. Elsewhere college students, academics, dad and mom and others took half in a big peaceable march in opposition to will increase in scholar charges and cuts in training and public providers.
Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution – Egyptian Embassy, South St. Mayfair
Round 200 individuals, primarily Egyptians dwelling within the UK had come to the road exterior the embassy for peaceable however noisy protest “to indicate our solidarity & help of our fellow Egyptians in our beloved nation, who selected making Tuesday 25/01/2011 a day of protests & demonstrations in Egypt in opposition to the unfair, tyrant, oppressive & corrupt Egyptian regime that has been ruling our nation for many years.“
The protest had introduced collectively Egyptians from differing political & ideological backgrounds, inviting “inviting all supporters of human rights & civic democracy to return & help us in delivering our message to the Egyptian regime.”
Their acknowledged aim was to attain “a democratic, free & civil nation able to guaranteeing a dignified, honourable & non-discriminatory life for all Egyptians.“
Though the Arab rebellion in Egypt in 2011 achieved a few of its goals, together with the tip of the 30 yr dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, it was adopted by a wrestle with the Muslim Brotherhood gaining energy and Mohamed Morsi being elected as president in June 2012 solely to be overthrown a couple of months later and the countrycpoming beneath the army regime led by Abdel Fattah el-Sissi since 2014.
In an interview with German information organisation DW ten years after the upraising an Egyptian activist commented “The counterrevolution has pushed the nation right into a state that’s much more oppressive than earlier than the 2011 revolution. The rebellion has taken a horrible flip and has led to an amazing regression.”
The protesters aimed to carry collectively individuals from throughout a variety of political viewpoints, they refused to permit Hizb Ut-Tahrir protesters to hitch them, as they’re against human rights and democracy.
Extra footage Solidarity with the Egyptian Revolution
Hizb ut-Tahrir Turned Away – South Audley St
Hizb Ut-Tahrir Britain, an Islamist group calling for the institution of a Muslim caliphate, marched to the Egyptian Embassy to participate within the protest there however have been turned away.
Once they arrived they have been met by Egyptians collaborating within the protest and advised very firmly that the embassy protest – just like the Egyptian revolution – was to be completely non-sectarian and that they weren’t welcome there.
As an alternative they needed to maintain their very own separate demonstration round 100 yards away across the nook alongside South Audley St, the place they have been unfold out alongside the pavement between South Avenue and Hill Avenue.
As at all times at their occasions, everybody was wearing black and the women and men have been segregated. The lads crammed many of the pavement alongside South Audley St, with only a few girls at one finish, with most of them across the nook eastwards on South Avenue, away from the loundspeakers and the embassy.
As I commented it appeared a transparent demonstration of the dearth of equality they want to impose. Not one of the speeches whereas I used to be there was in English, however I used to be capable of collect that they have been calling for Egypt to return beneath the rule of an Islamic Khalifah (caliphate), the “actual change” which they see as the reply to every little thing.
It was a name diametrically against the goals of the Egyptian revolution, which aimed to do away with the oppressive regime and make Egypt a free and democratic nation, a secular state the place there isn’t any discrimination primarily based on gender, faith or political beliefs. The very last thing they needed was to interchange one repressive regime by one other, although depressingly that was what the longer term held for his or her nation.
No Charges, No Cuts! Scholar March
The Nationwide Marketing campaign In opposition to Charges and Cuts had organised two massive nationwide protests in London and Manchester to defend training and the general public sector. They came about a bit of over two months after one other massive scholar march had ended with a small group strolling into the Tory HQ at Millbank and occupying it.
On that event the police had tried to hold out a brutal eviction and have been met with an indignant response, with the protesters smashing massive plate glass home windows to permit others to enter, although few did. Quite a few protesters and press have been injured by police (and some police injured too), although most of these on the scene merely watched from exterior within the courtyard and have been appalled when a silly fool threw an empty hearth extinguisher from the roof and started to chant in opposition to him. Luckily no-one was killed. However the occasion made the headlines of these media organisations which usually flip their blind eye to protests, although the reviews didn’t a lot have interaction with the explanations for the protest or report pretty on all that had occurred.
Police appeared to have learnt some classes from their errors on that event and made a lot higher efforts to speak sensibly with the protesters and to not kettle them or push them round. As I wrote “Regardless of the variety of protesters in anarchist costume with facemasks, most college students are usually not out to trigger hassle.”
The march had begun with a brief rally in Malet Avenue and I met it because the entrance was making its method out of Russell Sq. strolling with it and taking footage of the marchers and of quick protests at Topshop and Vodaphone outlets in Strand in opposition to their tax avoidance. Police lined the entrance of the outlets and shortly persuaded the protesters to maneuver on.
Issues livened up a bit of exterior Downing Avenue have been the march paused for some indignant shouting and several other individuals let of smoke flares earlier than transferring on. Many stopped for some time in Parliament Sq., with some dancing to a samba band, however after some time everybody moved off to the place the march was to finish exterior Tate Britain on Millbank.
In contrast to within the earlier November there was a big group of police lined throughout the complete frontage of the Millbank tower complicated – bolting the secure door as I believe it unlikely that there would have been any hassle.
The one signal of any battle between police and protesters I noticed did come exterior right here, when there was a short sit-down after police tried to drive two vans filled with reinforcements by way of the group. Sensibly the police merely introduced in a line of officers to permit the vans to drive alongside the pavement moderately than attempt to pressure individuals to maneuver.
By the point I arrived exterior Tate Britain with the tail of the march they rally there had ended and I made a decision it was time to depart, although a few of these on the protest have been planning to proceed elsewhere – together with going to the Egyptian Embassy the place I had been earlier. Later at house I learn reviews on-line that half a dozen individuals had been arrested in minor incidents.
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