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55 mile walk from Brighton to London ends in SOCPA showdown.

Blind Ali | 19.12.2006 23:19 | Anti-militarism | Repression | London | South Coast

3 Brighton activists marched the 55 miles for 3 days from Brighton to Whitehall to deliver letters to Downing Street and postcards to the foreign Office demanding the release of Brighton resident Omar Deghayes from Guantanamo Bay.

The march ended outside Downing Street where the police on the gates refused to take the letters from the walkers despite their long march. The twenty or so people who had joined the marchers for the last leg of their journey carrying banners and many wearing orange suits then started a spontaneous and very angry demonstration shouting "take our letters", "this is not democracy", etc. The police stood by passively and totally unwilling to enforce the SOCPA legislation that they have used against many; usually while the BBC television* cameras are not there.

Video footage and more detailed reports and follow-ups will be posted soon...

* Not that the BBC showed the events described on their report of the events.

Blind Ali
- Homepage: http://www.save-omar.org.uk

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Video Footage

20.12.2006 12:33

Demonstration outside Downing Street - video/quicktime 14M

The footage shows the last leg of our 55 mile walk into the SOCPA zone. The walkers and organisers of the march refused to apply for permission to hold a demonstration as required by the SOCPA legislation. On the day before the march the police, having read the report on Indymedia rang one of the walkers in an apparent last minute attempt to get them to formally apply for police permission. Again they refused and despite the refusal they allowed the unauthorised demonstration to continue without any intervention.

Blind Ali
- Homepage: http://www.save-omar.org.uk

nice idea

20.12.2006 12:48

instead of letters, next time, take bombs and blow the cunts up

kirsty