Slavery, Aninal Cruelty & Turkey Assaults Rojova: Protests in London on Saturday twenty seventh January 2018 in opposition to migrants being offered as slaves in Libya, the persevering with merciless trapping of animals to make use of in clothes offered by Canada Goose and the assaults by the Turkish military on Kurdish areas of North Syria.
Finish UAE help for slavery in Libya – UAE Embassy

African Lives Matter and the Worldwide Marketing campaign to Boycott UAE protest on the UAE Embassy in London in opposition to the funding by the the United Arab Emirates of armed Teams in Libya which imprison, torture and kill African migrants and promote them as slaves.

The protest additionally referred to as for an finish of the human trafficking of African migrants to and from Dubai and for assist to be given for slavery victims in Dubai to return to their households in Africa.

This turned out to be a reasonably small protest, though the police had clearly deliberate for one thing a lot bigger and I had anticipated extra after earlier protests over the difficulty.
Finish UAE help for slavery in Libya
Canada Goose protests proceed – Regent St

Protesters have been once more exterior the Canada Goose flagship retailer in Regent St asking consumers to boycott the shop due to the horrific cruelty concerned in trapping canine for fur and elevating birds for down used within the firm’s clothes.

The corporate had obtained an injunction to attempt to stop protests, however this had been amended within the earlier month to permit extra protesters and to allow them to make use of loud hailers between 2pm and 8pm. They have been now finishing up weekly protests on Saturdays in addition to occasional protests through the week.

Lastly in 2022 Canada Goose introduced it could cease buying new fur from trappers and transition to utilizing reclaimed fur, although it appears unclear whether or not they have achieved their objective. The corporate is outwardly nonetheless promoting clothes made with its giant shares of trapped fur and persevering with to make use of feathers from geese and geese which campaigners allege are plucked from dwell birds.
Defend Afrin, cease Turkish Assault – BBC to Downing St

A number of thousand folks, primarily Kurds, marched by London from exterior the BBC to a rally reverse Downing St, calling for an finish to the assaults by Turkish forces on the Afrin Canton of Northern Syria, now part of the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS) or Rojava, a de facto autonomous area in northern Syria.

Many see Rojava with a structure based mostly on a democratic socialism which treats all ethnic teams as equal and girls as equal to males as a mannequin for a future federal Syria, though it appears unlikely to search out favour with Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham.

Turkey is the second largest army power in NATO, second solely to the USA and seemed to be utilizing its place in NATO and the specter of nearer relationships with Russia to get rid of the Kurds on its borders, who it alleges are part of the PKK, the Kurdistan Employees’ Social gathering, a Kurdish nationalist organisation regarded by Turkey and its allies as a terrorist organisation which was proscribed by the UK in 2001.

Kurds are round 15-20% if the inhabitants of Turkey, its largest ethnic minority and have been violently suppressed following the institution of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, with quite a lot of massacres and a unbroken try to erase their language and tradition. Even the phrases “Kurds” or “Kurdistan” have been banned and in 1980 their languages have been banned, with these discovered utilizing them arrested and imprisoned. It stays unlawful to show utilizing Kurdish in colleges in Turkey.

Kurdish forces,aided by US air help performed a serious function within the defeat of ISIS in Syria. Finally the Turkish assaults on Afrin have been halted after the Kurds in Rojava reached an settlement with the Syrian military to assist them within the defence of Syria. Additional Turkish encroachment into Syria was prevented by the establishing of the Second Northern Syria Buffer Zone, a part of the Sochi Settlement, in 2019.

Turkey inspired ISIS in Syria as part of their makes an attempt to take away Kurdish affect within the areas near their borders. Gross sales of oil smuggled by Turkey with the connivance of main figures within the Turkish authorities supplied a lot of the funding for ISIS.

The marchers met on the BBC who they are saying has didn’t report over a few years on Turkish atrocities and their genocidal assaults on the Kurds earlier than marching to Downing Avenue.

Police apparently seized quite a lot of PKK flags earlier than the beginning of the march, although I did nonetheless spot one when the marchers reached Downing St. Kurds largely view the PKK as a nationalist slightly than terrorist organisation and there have been many flags with the picture of the PKK’s lengthy imprisoned chief Abdullah Öcalan. His nickname ‘Apo’ means uncle in Kurdish. It was his studying and pondering throughout lengthy years of solitary confinement that led to the brand new pondering within the structure of Rojava.

I listened to a couple of the speeches at Downing Avenue earlier than leaving for residence and you’ll see many extra footage of the march and among the audio system on My London Diary.
Defend Afrin, cease Turkish Assault
Flickr – Fb – My London Diary – Hull Images – Lea Valley – Paris
London’s Industrial Heritage – London Images
All pictures on this web page are copyright © Peter Marshall.
Contact me to purchase prints or licence to breed.
Tags: African Lives Matter, Afrin, animal cruelty, BBC, Boycott UAE, Canada Goose, Defend Afrin, democratic socialism, down, down filling, downing st, Dubai, geese, equlity, ethnic teams, fur collars, fur trapping, fur trims, geese, imprison, ISIS, kill, Kurdish, Kurdistan, Kurds, Libya, London, march, NOrthern Syria, peter Marshall, PKK, police, protest, Rojava, promote as slaves, slavery in Libya, slaves, cease Turkish Assault, torture, Turkish Military, Turkish terrorism, UAE, UAE Embassy, ladies, womens liberation
You’ll be able to depart a response, or trackback from your individual web site.