#London protests

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Don’t stop talking. @amahlamusic

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Keir Starmer claims 'first job was on a farm' amid protest | UK | News News Buzz

Sir Keir Starmer claimed his “first job was on a farm” as protests erupted in London today about inheritance tax changes. Farming assets worth more than £1 million, which were previously exempt, will be liable to 20 percent inheritance tax as of April 2025, a move which farmers say could leave many penniless. Speaking in an interview with the BBC, Starmer responded to comments from Countryside…

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Assange Case, Royal Courts of Justice

March 2024, Central London

[augustsappho]

BREAKING!!!

Students at Goldsmiths University of London have restarted their protests in the face of footage that surfaced from Rafah and in response to Frances Corner showing little sign of taking student demands seriously and even less intent to hold up to her divestment agreements, which were made at the beginning of May 2024.

Protests at the uni have been covered by Al Jazeera and The Socialist Worker. Updates can be found on their Instagram @goldsmithsforpalestine. A vote of no confidence has been kick-started by the Student Union and will commence on June 7th 2024.

In meetings leading up to this vote, there has been a stark lack of support of any kind or any intent to vote against the no-confidence proposal. Students unanimously stand against the Warden.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Trans Kids Deserve Better are occupying Wes Streeting's Office at Ilford North (London). London folx, get down there and support!

Today young activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better established an encampment outside the constituency office of Wes Streeting the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

The decision to take up camp outside his office was made after the health secretary announced the permanent ban on the prescription of puberty blockers in the House of Commons.

The ban, based on the widely discredited Cass Review has stripped trans+ youth of one of the only sources of medical care that we have access to, including from private providers.

"Wes Streeting has chosen politics over our lives. We are being put through an experiment, but the experiment is to deny us healthcare, not to provide it. He wants to see what happens to us when we grow up permanently altered in ways we never wanted, and we never consented to be part of that." - Grin

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

Free Palestine march in London today!

The people are with Palestine, and yet governments refuse to listen.

In the UK both the Tories and Labour refuse to even call for a ceasefire. Every day more and more children are dying in Gaza.

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"We will continue to march until Palestine is free 🇵🇸" from Humaniti Project, 10/Mar/2024:

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Stephen Kapos, a child survivor of the Holocaust, fights passionately for “Never Again” to mean “Never Again For Anyone,” for Palestinian liberation, and for the liberation of Judaism from the fascist ideology of zionism. He is just one of a long line of antizionist Jewish Holocaust survivors who have fought against zionism and for Palestinian human rights.

Repost from @pulseofpal:

At the London protest marking one year of the ongoing genocide in Palestine, a Holocaust survivor shared his solidarity with the Palestinian people. He debunked claims that these marches are unsafe for Jews and highlighted the parallels between his own experiences during the Holocaust and the suffering faced by families in Gaza today. His message was a poignant call to end the atrocities and demand justice for the oppressed.

[eretzyisrael]

by POTKIN AZARMEHR

‘Pro-Palestine’ protests have become a near-weekly occurrence across Britain. Since Hamas’s 7 October massacre, regular marches have been drawing in a growing number of young people, marked by passionate advocacy and fervent slogans. Yet despite their zeal, many of these protesters lack a fundamental understanding of the conflict they are so vociferously decrying.

In the past six months, I have attended many of these marches. Having engaged with numerous protesters, I have noticed a startling disconnect between their strong opinions on the Gaza conflict and their shaky grasp of basic facts about it. Among the most perplexing are the LGBT and feminist groups (the ‘Queers for Palestine’ types) who flirt with justifying Hamas’s atrocities. This is a bewildering alliance, given that Hamas’s Islamist ideology is clearly antithetical to the rights and values these groups claim to champion. Its reactionary agenda is profoundly hostile to women’s rights and LGBT individuals.

Protesters seem eager to make excuses for Hamas, but are conspicuously uninformed about exactly what or who this terrorist group represents. On 18 May, during a protest at Piccadilly Circus in London, I spoke to demonstrators who firmly believed that Hamas represents all Palestinians. When I questioned a well-educated participant about the last Palestinian election, she was unaware that none had occurred since 2006, when Hamas gained power in Gaza.

It wasn’t just young people who were uninformed. An older woman with an American accent, seemingly a veteran protester, admitted she knew that Hamas was linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, but had no deeper knowledge of its ideology or history. Others, such as members of revolutionary socialist groups, displayed similar gaps in understanding, unaware of critical events like the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

That revolution gave birth to the Islamic Republic of Iran, a theocratic regime that brutally oppresses its own citizens. It also sponsors Islamist groups like Hamas. I left Iran for the UK not long after that regime began and have spent years resisting its religious extremism and ruthless political intolerance. Protesters were not only unaware of these facts about the Iranian regime, but also ill-informed about the struggle against it, such as the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests against the government that began in 2022.

One particularly telling conversation involved a man advocating for a ‘Global Intifada’ to replace capitalism with socialism. When asked about successful socialist models, he was unfamiliar with the Israeli kibbutzim, one of history’s few successful egalitarian experiments. His ignorance of these communal settlements in Israel, built by socialist Jewish immigrants, was all too typical.

Perhaps the most telling moment was captured by commentator Konstantin Kisin earlier this year, when he encountered a young man holding a ‘Socialist Intifada’ placard. The protester admitted he had no idea what this meant and that he had taken the sign simply because it was handed to him.

Reflecting on past movements, such as the American anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement of the 1980s, one can’t help but note a stark contrast. Protesters then were generally well-informed about their causes. Today’s pro-Palestine protests, however, seem to be driven more by unthinking fervour than by an understanding of the issues at hand.

Throughout all these protests, I am yet to encounter a single participant who condemns Hamas or carries a placard denouncing its terrorism. This not only undermines the protesters’ cause, but also risks aligning them with groups whose values fundamentally oppose the very rights and freedoms they claim to support. It appears that today’s young protesters are high on ideology, but woefully thin on facts.

Potkin Azarmehr is an Iranian activist and journalist who left Iran for the UK after the revolution of 1979.

[dontforgetukraine]

This past weekend, people in Prague, Vilnius, Stockholm, Paris, London and other cities came together for an incredibly important cause. We want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who joined these rallies, standing in solidarity with Ukraine and demanding that Western governments allow Ukraine to strike back against the terror being inflicted on our people. Russia has been relentlessly terrorizing Ukrainian cities with missile strikes, targeting civilians, homes, schools, and hospitals. Innocent people are suffering every day. It is only fair and just that Ukraine be given the right to defend itself and strike back at the aggressor. Your voices in these rallies were a powerful reminder that the world sees the truth and will not stay silent in the face of this injustice. Thank you to all who took a stand. Together, we are calling for justice and freedom for Ukraine.

—International Centre for Ukrainian Victory

[imjusthereforthegayness]

In case anyone can go or spread awareness there is a march in London tomorrow (the 9th) at noon. Beginning Hyde Park Cornerand ending at the US embassy.

https://x.com/dashte_tanhayi/status/1764618434019537400?s=46

Does anyone know if there’s any upcoming protests in London or a website that would show the information? Whenever I see them in the areas I’m in it’s already passed. Thank you in advance 💚🍉

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Joan Baez in London, England. May 1967.

Photographed by Jeff Hochberg and George W. Hales.

[reasonsforhope]

"Thousands of demonstrators converged opposite the White House on Saturday to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a pro-Palestinian march through central London as part of a global day of action against the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Palestinians in 75 years.

People in the U.S. capital held aloft signs questioning President Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate because of his staunch support for Israel in the nearly 100-day war against Hamas. Some of the signs read: “No votes for Genocide Joe,” “Biden has blood on his hands” and “Let Gaza live.”

Vendors were also selling South African flags as protesters chanted slogans in support of the country whose accusations of genocide against Israel prompted the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, to take up the case...

The plight of children in the Gaza Strip was the focus of the latest London march, symbolized by the appearance of Little Amal, a 3.5-meter (11.5-foot) puppet originally meant to highlight the suffering of Syrian refugees.

The puppet had become a human rights emblem during an 8,000-kilometer (4,970-mile) journey from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester in July 2001.

Nearly two-thirds of the 23,843 people killed during Israel’s campaign in Gaza have been women and children, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory...

“On Saturday Amal walks for those most vulnerable and for their bravery and resilience,“ said Amir Nizar Zuabi, artistic director of The Walk Productions. “Amal is a child and a refugee and today in Gaza childhood is under attack, with an unfathomable number of children killed. Childhood itself is being targeted. That’s why we walk.”

London’s Metropolitan Police force said some 1,700 officers would be on duty for the march, including many from outside the capital...

The London march was one of several others being held in European cities including Paris, Rome, Milan and Dublin, where thousands also marched along the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare to protest Israel’s military operations in the Palestinian enclave.

Protesters waved Palestinian flags, held placards critical of the Irish, U.S. and Israeli governments and chanted, “Free, free Palestine.″

In Rome, hundreds of demonstrators descended on a boulevard near the famous Colosseum, with some carrying signs reading, “Stop Genocide.”

At one point during the protest, amid the din of sound effects mimicking exploding bombs, a number of demonstrators lied down in the street and pulled white sheets over themselves as if they were corpses, while others knelt beside them, their palms daubed in red paint.

Many hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Paris’ Republic square to set off on a march calling for an immediate cease-fire, an end to the war, a lifting of the blockade on Gaza and to impose sanctions on Israel. Marching protesters waved the Palestinian flag and held aloft placards and banners reading, “From Gaza to Paris. Resistance.”"

-via AP News, January 13, 2023

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https://lfpress.com/news/local-news/video-of-masked-deportation-protest-at-london-mall-goes-viral

A small protest at a London mall has drawn a big response online. A video posted on social media showing a small group of protesters at White Oaks Mall holding a large sign that reads “Mass deportation now” has gone viral. The eight-second clip shows the demonstrators, all of them male with their faces covered, holding the banner near the Tim Hortons in the food court while holiday shoppers pass by at the Wellington Road shopping centre.

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[vyorei]

THAT'S IT LONDON YOU FUCKING LEGENDS, AMAZING JOB, CAN'T BELIEVE I'M TYPING THIS

BASED ENGLAND

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