Violence In opposition to Girls, Charlie X & MI6 – Friday 14th February 2014 was the second One Billion Rising occasion with an occasion in Trafalgar Sq.. I walked away down Whitehall to {photograph} Charlie X protesting over local weather chaos after which went to MI6 at Vauxhall Cross for a protest on the 12 anniversary of the unlawful switch of Shaker Aamer from torture at a US airbase in Afghanistan to Guantanamo earlier than returning dwelling.
One Billion Rising – Finish Violence In opposition to Girls – Trafalgar Sq.
Individuals had come to strike, dance and rise in defiance in opposition to the injustices suffered by ladies on the second One Billion Rising occasion, begun as a name to motion in opposition to the UN determine that 1 in 3 ladies on this planet will likely be crushed or raped.
This was an initiative by playwright and activist Eve Ensler (identified for her play The Vagina Monologues), and her organisation V-Day, and the primary occasion in 2013 had concerned over 10,000 occasions worldwide. In 2014 issues had been occurring in 168 nations.
The House Workplace say there are a mean of 85,000 ladies raped annually in England and Wales, together with 400,000 sexually assaulted and that 1 in 5 ladies expertise some type of sexual violence of their grownup life.
“The occasion began with a quick photo-op which was simply a lot of individuals posing behind a banner. I virtually missed it, however I wouldn’t have actually missed a lot. I didn’t recognise lots of them, although they could properly have been celebreties.
One I did know was Bianca Jagger, who I’ve photographed on varied events. However you a lot properly spot others you already know.”
Afterwards there was some dancing on the stage and I photographed a few of those that had come to the occasion. I left earlier than the speeches.
Extra photos at One Billion Rising – Finish Violence In opposition to Girls
Charlie Chaplin Local weather Chaos – Downing St,
On the gates to Downing Avenue I met Charlie Chaplin mime Charlie X holding the top of PM David Cameron protesting in opposition to local weather chaos and in solidarity with those that are flooded out and with these preventing fracking across the UK. His message was ‘Frack This for a Larf!
It was as his e-mail earlier had indicated, “crap climate“, chilly and moist with the most recent in a sequence of storms hitting London, and that this was the proper context for a protest drawing consideration to a protest over local weather chaos and in solidarity with these individuals being flooded out throughout the nation.
I had come as much as London not realizing if my dwelling can be flooded by the point I returned. Components of the streets exterior had been beneath a couple of inches of soiled water as I walked to the station and the ditch behind our backyard had overflowed a few hundred yards downstream.
The native drains had been all flooded and we had been having to go to pals within the subsequent road to clean and many others – or depend on public companies additional afield. I used to be happy to seek out the state of affairs no worse once I lastly arrived dwelling but it surely was one other week earlier than Thames Water managed to get our sewage flowing once more.
Charlie Chaplin Local weather Chaos
‘Justice Calls for the Fact’ Vigil – MI6, Vauxhall Cross
“On the twelfth anniversary of Shaker Aamer’s unlawful rendition to Guantanamo, a protest referred to as on MI6 to inform the reality and cease working to cease him being returned to his household in London, and handed in a Valentine card to MI6 head Sir John Sawer.”
It was on St Valentine’s Day 2002 that Shaker Aamer “was illegally and forcibly transferred from Bagram Airbase, the place he had been tortured as MI6 brokers appeared on and helped together with his interrogation to Guantanamo, the place his imprisonment with out trial and with frequent and common ill-treatment and torture continues to today.”
Aamer’s dwelling and household had been a brief distance away in Battersea however he had been captured by bandits when working for a charity in Afghanistan and bought the the US authorities there.
On the identical day in 2002, his youngest son was born in London, a son residing together with his household in Battersea who has by no means seen his father. In 2014 Aamer was nonetheless being held in chains in solitary confinement and his well being was in peril after a prolonged starvation strike.
The US might discover no proof of his involvement in terrorism and he was cleared for launch in 2007 – however they needed to ship him again to Saudi Arabia the place he would have conceniently disappeared with out hint.
Aamer had married a British lady and been granted residency to reside within the UK and was making use of for citizenship earlier than his seize. His supporters had been satisfied that he was solely nonetheless being held in jail “due to varied lies informed by British safety companies MI5 and MI6 to our authorities, which Jack Straw, Overseas Secretary from 2001-6 and later Secretary of State for Justice apparently believed.”
These lies had been informed as a result of each US and UK intellegence companies can be extremely embarassed by the proof he would give about his continued torture in Guantanamo and his torture at Bagram.
Safety on the MI6 constructing refused to just accept the Valentines card they tried to current, however finally they pushed it by a niche within the gate. However Shaker was solely lastly launched and capable of return to the UK on thirtieth October 2015.
You may learn extra in regards to the protest and see many extra photos on My London Diary at ‘Justice Calls for the Fact’ Vigil.
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