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pics form anti-occupation demo outside downing street this afternoon

rikki | 11.04.2004 19:43 | Indymedia | London

around 50/60 people gathered outside downing street in a show of solidarity with the people of falluja in iraq

some 50/60 people gathered
some 50/60 people gathered

one of the human billboards
one of the human billboards

more than 700 dead and thousands injured
more than 700 dead and thousands injured

brian haw speaks
brian haw speaks

a two minute silence was held
a two minute silence was held


voices in the wilderness uk put out a call yesterday to join with other demonstrations in cities throughout the world against the current activities of coalition troops in iraq. with more than 700 dead in falluja in the last few days, and thousands injured, the occupation has entered a deadly new phase.

despite the very short notice of this demonstration, some 50 or 60 people gave up their easter sunday to come and hear various speakers and show their solidarity with the suffering people of iraq.

among the speakers were brian haw, who has now camped in parliament square and kept up his one man peace vigil for more than a thousand days and nights. a speaker from www.jubileeiraq.org gave an eloquent rundown of the way the country has been plunged into odious debts which will never be repayable and will leave it undr the control of private hands in the west for centuries to come unless we can change things. we also heard various eyewitness reports of events in iraq over the last year.

a two minute silence was held in memory of those killed.

rikki
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50 !!!

12.04.2004 08:06

50 of you, was that it ? Where was everybody else ?

I'm stuck in hospital and so couldn't make it but I know about 12 of my friends said they were going. Unless we get more people out to demos like this we are never going to be taken for real.

Although when most of Britain seems more interested in who Beckham is screwing perhaps I shouldn't be surprised.

Spike

We the people, suck...

13.04.2004 19:51

50 people in england, damn good ! Zero in paris, toulouse, bordeaux or strasbourg, or no has had the info. How many, in total, in the rest of the world (except for Iraq) ? We poor dumb consumers/workers are not informed, many do not have internet, and many do not read the press but watch the news. The mass media (what else?) are sick informed by politics and great in-the-shadows puppet masters. Sounds like conspiracionist stuff, yes right. But, are we really informed ? How many DEAD iraqi civilians were seen on TV ? Crying children, crying mothers, wounded dying men etc etc. But damn where are the thousands dead or wounded civilians. We get every day the EXACT (though underestimated and truncated) number of marines DIA, but who cares of arabs amongst the western civilization ? Intellectuals, pacifists, a bunch of leftist leaning deviant citizens, happily they consume so much. The point is : a team of some hundreds high people rule the planet, conformally to their own damn selfish interests, some maybe with a philosophy behind the market, bush senior i'd bet he's in the pack along with european high profile personalities, and dubya is a good good son. He has interests too in the big game for resources. Afghanistan and Iraq have been elected as alternate sources for energy (gas and oil) and mere scapegoats for 9/11 horrorful events. All the better the bad guy is the one with the biggest reserves ! LOL !
Unless a new form of widespread independant media is cast on TV for the pennyless masses, dumb workers as i will never realize how painfully they are lied to by any commercial-based media (be it radio, press or TV, even public TV). So damn, maybe 50 people is kind of good already.

fabien
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