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Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protest. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 July 2014

In our thousands in our millions we support the Palestinians

London
Over 100,000 people came onto the streets of London, Glasgow and Belfast and other towns across the UK yesterday to protest at the continuing Israeli attacks on the people of Gaza in which over 340 have died including 75 children. In London the names and ages of all the Palestinian children killed
Glasgow
by Israeli air and ground attacks in Gaza in the last 11 days were read out in front of the Israeli embassy
http://www.channel4.com/news/gaza-protests-thousands-attend-pro-palestinian-london-demo

Belfast
Among the other events across the country, Aberdeen saw campaigners gather for the third consecutive week in St Nicholas Square in a show of solidarity with the people of Gaza. http://aberdeentuc.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/hundreds-of-voices-raised-in-protest.html

See more photos of protests around the world at http://theworldstandswithpalestine.tumblr.com/

Monday, 17 October 2011

An upsurge of anger and bitterness

‘Anti-capitalism is now firmly on the march’ claims Labour MP Michael Meacher - in doing so he makes an important connection between the worldwide upsurge in protests against austerity and the recent exposure of extreme right-wing corporate dominance ‘which behind the scenes runs most Western countries’
http://www.michaelmeacher.info/weblog/2011/10/anti-capitalism-is-now-firmly-on-the-march/

Friday, 29 October 2010

Protest works says Independent pundit - Heard that one before?‏

Johan Hari writing in today’s Independent refers to the ‘ripple of rage’ spreading across Britain in response to austerity measures and says that protest works: