5th day of parliament square hunger strike

rikki | 16.01.2009 19:59 | SOCPA | Anti-militarism | Palestine

maria gallestegui has been on hunger strike for gaza in parliament square for five days now, taking only liquids and camping out in the cold air. it is outrageous that this has not received any mainstream news coverage and i urge people to contact media organisations to complain.

Video film of maria interview in mp4 format - video/mp4 4.1M

Video same film in wmv format - video/x-ms-wmv 4.6M

maria is bearing up well and did a short film interview for me today, in which she spoke of her hope that more people will join the 24-hour vigil for gaza and the strike for peace.

supported by the palestine solidarity campaign, maria has socpa authorisation for up to 20,000 people to join her in parliament square and remain there 24/7 until the israelis pull out of palestine. she also organises the 'peacestrike' petitions which she takes daily to 10 downing street.

please find some time to go and support her, and to contact the mainstream media companies and complain at their lack of coverage of this bold and brave act right on the doorstep of the politicians.

rikki
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19.01.2009 10:02

With all else going on in the worle, with Gazza is it any wonder that this has not received any 'mainstream' news coverage. Maybe the 'mainstream' news have heard this all before from the parliment square protest.

A.non

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25.01.2009 00:28

vigilforgaza.net

rikki

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its a protest not a vigil

25.01.2009 04:35

Maria seems a little frustrated and confused.

She says it herself "we havent stopped anything" - she with others want to appeal to her government.

Why give them (her government) the power they need to continue to ignore important issues.

20, 000 people can turn up "with permission" and their message will be as invisible as Maria's with a protest mentality. Protest is the problem, complaint is the focus, why complain to your government / prime minister?

The press are ignoring this issue - why keep appealing to them? Mass protest is futile. Individual acts of kindness are not.

A vigil might not really need words - this one has too many making it a negativity thinking camp out.

lhm