Demo Parliament Square on Saturday
Anti-War | 19.09.2005 18:58 | Anti-militarism | Repression
Challenge the ban on fundamental civil liberties by the UK Government and Authorities in Parliament Square on Saturday 24th of September 2005.
Challenge sections 132-135 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 and the "offence" of demonstrating without authorisation in a designated area at the national Peace&Liberty march organised by Stop the War Coalition, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Muslim Association of Britain that will assemble at Parliament Square at 12 noon on Saturday 24th of September 2005.
What for some is a march from point A to B, expressing dissent by mass demonstration, is for others an opportunity to join in direct action against repression and the denial of basic civil liberties.
As previosuly reported on Indymedia UK several individuals have already been arrested by the police in Parliament Square for peacefully expressing their thoughts and opinions without authorisation under a legislation which is arguably incompatible with article 11 of The Human Rights Act 1998 as well as The European Convention on Human Rights and The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
This Saturday will be an opportunity to show solidariry and support for those arrested as well as incresing the pressure on Blair and his government of war criminals.
The national march, backed by national unions including the TGWU, Amicus, CWU, PCS and Unison will end with a rally in Hyde Park with speeches by John Pilger, the US anti war activist Tom Hayden, Iraqi Haifa Zangana, Tony Benn, and Tariq Ali.
Direct non-violent action by affinty groups is an alternative for those who are not interested in the speeches or have heard it all before.
Stop the War Coalition is planning to flood the London tube system with a specially produced version of a celebrity letter to Tony Blair on Wednesday.
The actor Julie Christie and singer Brian Eno joined campaigners to hand a letter in to Downing St on Thursday supporting the demo and calling on the troops to pull out from Iraq. Over 100 people signed the open letter of protest, including Billy Bragg, Tony Woodley, professor Richard Dawkins and Anita Roddick condemning the continued occupation of Iraq as "an unmitigated disaster".
More than 150 people were killed in suicide bombs this week in Iraq, the US bombed Tel Afar and the escalating violence is now beginning to reach the UK directly in the recent bombings of the London public transport.
Stop!
Links:
http://www.parliamentprotest.org.uk/
http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
http://www.cnduk.org/
What for some is a march from point A to B, expressing dissent by mass demonstration, is for others an opportunity to join in direct action against repression and the denial of basic civil liberties.
As previosuly reported on Indymedia UK several individuals have already been arrested by the police in Parliament Square for peacefully expressing their thoughts and opinions without authorisation under a legislation which is arguably incompatible with article 11 of The Human Rights Act 1998 as well as The European Convention on Human Rights and The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
This Saturday will be an opportunity to show solidariry and support for those arrested as well as incresing the pressure on Blair and his government of war criminals.
The national march, backed by national unions including the TGWU, Amicus, CWU, PCS and Unison will end with a rally in Hyde Park with speeches by John Pilger, the US anti war activist Tom Hayden, Iraqi Haifa Zangana, Tony Benn, and Tariq Ali.
Direct non-violent action by affinty groups is an alternative for those who are not interested in the speeches or have heard it all before.
Stop the War Coalition is planning to flood the London tube system with a specially produced version of a celebrity letter to Tony Blair on Wednesday.
The actor Julie Christie and singer Brian Eno joined campaigners to hand a letter in to Downing St on Thursday supporting the demo and calling on the troops to pull out from Iraq. Over 100 people signed the open letter of protest, including Billy Bragg, Tony Woodley, professor Richard Dawkins and Anita Roddick condemning the continued occupation of Iraq as "an unmitigated disaster".
More than 150 people were killed in suicide bombs this week in Iraq, the US bombed Tel Afar and the escalating violence is now beginning to reach the UK directly in the recent bombings of the London public transport.
Stop!
Links:
http://www.parliamentprotest.org.uk/ http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/ http://www.stopwar.org.uk/ http://www.cnduk.org/
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21.09.2005 00:23
The picnic/peoples' parliament discussion should be completely legal, but there will be a risk of arrest because the police can decide at any time that something is a demonstration (not defined in the new laws), even a picnic apparently! Organisers of 'demonstrations' face imprisonment or fine or both, 'participants' face a fine. 'Incitement' (also not defined) to commit the previous two offences attract the same penalties as an 'organiser' (imprisonment and/or fine) under the new SOC laws.
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