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Manchester protests against the wset bank wall - video

Chris Edwards | 15.07.2003 11:53 | Anti-racism | Repression | London

This is a 25 minute edited video of the Manchester protest against the West Bank Wall which took place on 12th July 2003. ,

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15.07.2003 12:07

It seems that it is no longer possible to right click and save video clips on the new UK Indymedia site.

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WALL DOWN DEMONSTRATION for
JUSTICE AND PEACE IN PALESTINE
12th JULY 03 2pm

MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE, North of England
in front of the Town Hall

Work on the Wall started out in the street at 11am. Cardboard boxes were collected, banners were made and declarations, photos and Palestinian flags stuck onto the boxes.

The wall we were going to build symbolically represented ‘the wall of silence’ by the west concerning its complicity in the barbaric treatment of innocent people; destroying the wall of silence is asking the west ‘to open its eyes’.

There was an interesting and philosophical "pavement" discussion with a Jewish man who initially seemed antagonistic to the demonstration, but joined the demonstration later that day.

The demonstration started at 2 pm. We carried the boxes to the square in front of Manchester Town Hall. Together we built the wall.
Over 2 metres high and 50 metres long, the wall spoke to the people of Manchester, telling the Palestinian story of dispossession and suffering, expressing our wishes for peace. Palestinian music echoed round the square, a message of sadness and of hope.

There were approximately 200 activists and some interested members of the public. No police interrupted.

In glorious sunshine speakers from CND, Jews for Justice in Palestine, Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Boycott Marks and Spencers, [a campaign to protest against a chain store which backs the Zionist cause] and many others passionately appealed for peace, for the demolition of the wall and an end to aggression in Palestine.
A 12 year school girl old read her poem about the ‘hideous nature of war’.
Many Jews renounced their ‘continous, unconditional right of abode’ in the state of Israel. They said they would happily offer their own ‘right to return’ to a Palestinian if it were possible.
People from ISM talked about what they seen in Palestine.
A poem was read about Tom, Rachel, James and Brian.

At the end of the demonstration a group photo was taken to record the event and encourage and support victims of oppression in Palestine.

The event ended with the demonstrators marching round the wall three times and with shouts of ‘Free, Free Palestine!’ and ‘Down, down, knock it down!’ everyone smashed the wall to pieces.

People from all backgrounds are uniting across the world to try to make our planet a better place for everyone.

Mariangela

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16.07.2003 18:47

I think you may not be able to do right click download because of the new MIR web solution using rtsp in the URL for protocol:

rtsp://www.indymedia.org.uk/rtsp/2003/07/274255.rm

I think this optimises the download for streaming.

My browser does not support this protocol at all, so I had to change it for:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/rtsp/2003/07/274255.rm

to be able to right click to save go to:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/rtsp/2003/07/

and then right click on 274255.rm

I don't have realplayer yet on this pc anyway, as only jus installed a fresh distro of Mandrake GNU/Linux which does not come with realplayer on free download edition. I will get it from Mandrake club though. But I would prefer not to have to use proprietary software. I do realise that the free (as in freedom) codecs as maybe not as up to you wishes but they are getting there.

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23.07.2003 17:09

This photo looks simlar to another posted in a separate Newswire, but it is froma slightly different angle and has more of the flowers in the foreground.

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24.07.2003 15:41

Here is the photo (hopefully)

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