Solidarity protests on Friday tenth October 2014 and a few excessive large angle views within the Metropolis of London.
Solidarity for Care UK Strikers – Care UK, Southwark
The protest by members from the Nationwide Retailers Stewards Community, Commerce Unionist and Socialist Coalition and Southwark Unison was one among many across the nation in a nation-wide day of solidarity with Doncaster Care UK employees who had been on strike for 81 days after enormous cuts in pay and companies had been made by a personal fairness firm who’ve taken over this a part of the NHS.
Care UK is now owned by Bridgepoint, which additionally owns companies together with Fats Face and Pret a Manger. The employees are on strike not simply over cuts in their very own wages, but additionally in opposition to the adjustments in how Care UK is allowed to function by the brand new bosses. What was previously a values-based well being service capable of handle the wants of these with studying problems in their very own neighborhood has been radically altered to offering minimal requirements of service on the lowest doable price to get the best earnings for Bridgepoint, and for the corporate they are going to be bought on to as soon as the non-public fairness firm has slimmed companies and pay to the bone.
Solidarity for Care UK Strikers
Free Ghoncheh Ghavami – SOAS motion
The present unrest in Iran following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini after her arrest by the morality police’ for allegedly sporting her hijab improperly, in order that a few of her hair was seen is unprecedented, however ladies there have been oppressed by non secular police for the reason that 1979 Islamic Revolution.
In 2014 former SOAS Regulation scholar Ghoncheh Ghavami was arrested and detained with different ladies for going to attempt to watch a volleyball match in Tehran. On the time of the protest outdoors SOAS College of London she had been held for 104 days and had been on starvation strike for 10 days. The protesters included plenty of Iranian college students one among whom instructed the protest she couldn’t return to Iran because the TV protection of a volleyball recreation in Rome had proven her reacting to a rating.
The rally was supported by employees and the SOAS employees unions UCU and Unison, in addition to by the SOAS Pupil Union, and a few college students took half in a day’s starvation strike in solidarity and there was a candlelight vigil. Ghavami was launched on bail on 23 November 2014 and later sentenced to a 12 months in jail and a two-year journey ban for “propaganda in opposition to the regime”.
Free Ghoncheh Ghavami – SOAS motion
Metropolis Panoramas
I had an hour or two to spare earlier than the subsequent protest I used to be to cowl and spent a few of this strolling across the metropolis and making some excessive wide-angle images.
Though these footage have a traditional facet ratio, they’ve a horizontal angle of view of over 145 levels and a vertical angle of round 90 levels, solely doable by utilizing a lens which doesn’t give the extra regular ‘rectilinear’ perspective however represents the scene with some curvature.
Palestine protest at Hewlett Packard – Wooden St
The Palestinian Prisoners Marketing campaign continued their marketing campaign in opposition to Hewlett-Packard, which boasts of ‘an enormous presence’ in Israel and are the IT spine for the Israeli conflict machine with a picket outdoors their London places of work.
Police watched the protest throughout the road from HP’s places of work rigorously and umbrellas within the colors of the Palestinian flag and huge banners made the protest very seen. Speeches and posters taped on the pavement gave particulars of HP’s involvement within the oppression and imprisonment of Palestinians which had been additionally said on the leaflets the protesters handed out.
Palestine protest at Hewlett Packard
Solidarity with the Umbrella Revolution – Chinese language Embassy
Umbrellas had been additionally on show on the protest across the doorway of the Chinese language Embassy on Portland Place organised by the Nationwide Marketing campaign In opposition to Charges and Cuts in solidarity with the ‘umbrella revolution’ of the scholars and employees of Hong Kong of their combat for democracy.
A lot of the umbrellas had been on posters and placards, although some protesters carried small yellow paper umbrellas and there have been only a few full-size ones too.
Police tried to maneuver the protesters to the opposite facet of the street, however they refused to maneuver. They known as for the fast launch of all of the arrested, an finish to the suppression of peaceable meeting, changing the “faux common suffrage” formulation with the real political reform employees have been demanding, and the resignation of Chief Government Leung Chun Ying.
Solidarity with the Umbrella Revolution
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