Saturday sixteenth January 2016 was a busy day for me, ending relatively unusually with taking some pictures at a celebration which I additionally put on-line.
St Pancras Die-In for Calais refugees
Saturday sixteenth January 2016 was an Worldwide Day of Motion in solidarity with refugees and there have been protests in Calais and Dunkirk in addition to in lots of cities. The protests have been held at quick discover in opposition to the clearing the Calais refugee ‘Jungle’ and urged the UK authorities to present refugees at Calais protected passage into the UK to assert asylum.
Lots of these within the camps have household and mates within the UK, which has didn’t take a fair proportion of the migrants. Protesters included folks from the London2Calais convoy in addition to a Christian contingent with some bible-based placards.
After a quick speech on the huge pavement in entrance of Kings Cross station the protesters walked to the principle entrance of St Pancras Worldwide the place a big group of police prevented them from getting into they usually held a brief rally.
The protesters then marched off all the way down to Euston Highway accompanied by a big group of police. Whereas some continued to march alongside Euston Highway many caught the police unaware by dashing down the steps into the underground entrance and alongside previous the ticket places of work earlier than being stopped by extra police on the underground entrance to the lengthy shopping center in St Pancras Station.
They held a protest there with a number of audio system calling for refugees at Calais and Dunkirk, who embrace many unaccompanied minors and others with kin residing within the UK, to be allowed to enter the UK and make asylum claims. Actup London then staged a die-in with others sitting down to affix them for round ten minutes, ending with a remaining speech.
Apparently a number of protesters had managed to get in and protest with faux physique luggage on the Eurostar entrance. The protesters had been cautious all through to go away a path for folks catching trains to enter the station, however some had been held up by police who mistook them for protesters.
Extra at St Pancras Die-In for Calais refugees.
March in opposition to Taiji Dolphin Slaughter – Regent St
I used to be late and missed the beginning of the march in opposition to the annual inhumane slaughter of dolphins and small whales at Taiji in Japan. They’d met in Cavendish Sq. however have been marching down Regent St after I caught up with them on their option to the Japanese Embassy.
Though there have been a number of hundred participating, the marchers saved to the pavement relatively than take to the street, which appeared relatively unusual and maybe reduces their impression, although it did imply that buyers who usually seem like sleepwalking did have to maneuver out of the way in which.
Dominic Dyer of the Born Free Basis, Take care of the Wild and CEO of The Badger Belief led the march down the road. As normal most of the marchers had made their very own posters and placards and a few carried dolphins. This yr most of the placards referred to as for a boycott of the Tokyo Olympics for the disgrace that this inhumane slaughter brings to Japan.
I walked with the marchers taking footage so far as Oxford Circus, ready till all of them had handed on their means down Piccadilly to the Japanese Embassy after which left.
Extra footage at March in opposition to Taiji Dolphin Slaughter.
Vegans ‘Awakening Compassion’ – Piccadilly Circus
Across the statue of Erost have been a bunch of Vegans from ‘Awakening Compassion’, standing and holding posters with massive pictures of animals we farm for meals – chickens, cows, sheep, goats, pigs- with messages comparable to ‘I’m an animal – Somebody not one thing – I wish to keep alive.
Though I’m against the merciless remedy of animals, the animals in these footage owe their existence to the farmers who over millennia have bred them and now elevate them. If we gave up consuming meat and dairy merchandise our countryside could be a really completely different place. We must be consuming much less meat for numerous causes, and I do usually have meals with out it and pay extra for meat and eggs produced with much less cruelty, however cattle type an important a part of the ecosystem and I’d hate to lose them.
Drop Meals Not Bombs on Syria – Trafalgar Sq.
The message of the Syrians who had come to protest in Trafalgar Sq. was clear – Drop Meals Not Bombs on Syria. As an alternative of spending billions on bombs and weapons they need the cash to be spent on humanitarian help for these beneath siege throughout Syria, together with these in Madaya and the Yarmouk refugee camp.
Many wore or held the Free Syria flag with its inexperienced, black and white strips and three pink stars, and numerous posters which made clear they condemnation of ISS, the Russian bombings and the Assad regime.
One poster learn ‘Syrians began the Revolution – Assad began the warfare’ whereas others made clear what they have been calling for; ‘Drop the Meals, Not Bombs’ and ‘Medaya is Crying Whereas the World is Denying’
Extra footage: Drop Meals Not Bombs on Syria
Worldwide Occasions new ‘Subject Zero’ – Mayfair Rooms, Fleet St
Infamous London underground paper Worldwide Occasions, first revealed in 1966 and closed down in 1973 (with a number of re-incarnations and a website since 2009) began once more for its fiftieth anniversary with a launch get together for the 36 web page ‘Subject Zero’.
Amongst these writing for the brand new situation have been stalwarts from its early days, together with Heathcote Williams, and the problem was edited by Heathcote Ruthven with subediting by Emily McCarthy, Heather Williams, David Graeber and Heathcote Williams, design by Darren Cullen and artwork by Nick Victor and Claire Palmer.
Extra in regards to the situation and extra footage at Worldwide Occasions new ‘Subject Zero’.
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