Pix of 'Free Palestine' demonstration, Sat 22 May 05 - Set 1 of 2

Tim D Jones | 23.05.2005 13:35 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | London

Stills and a movie clip from Saturday's lively and colourful demonstration for a Palestine free from Zionist oppression and occupation.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

Welsh voices raised in anthemic splendour

How long will our Palestinian sisters and brothers be walled in?

Solidarity from Brent and school students

Sometimes happiness is simply waving a flag to express your solidarity

Anti-imperialists spell it out plain and simple

These guys will be busy until we disappear capitalism off the face of the planet

The banner bright, the symbol plain, of human right and human gain

Internationalist international solidarity

We will never forget – the massacre that signaled the beginning of the disaster

Welsh peaceniks give great voice

London borough NUT banners

Delivering diversity

The closing line of Marx & Engel's Communist Manifesto, 1848

Between photographing the Uzbek Embassy protest against the Andijan/Pakhtabad massacres, and attending a public forum celebrating the 1905 revolution in Russia, I just had time to record the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's relatively small but vocal and enthusiastic 'Free Palestine – End Israeli Occupation' demonstration; details:

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events.asp?d=y&id=1430

With the insurgency against the brutal US/UK occupation of Iraq making most of the running in the mainstream media's middle-eastern coverage, perhaps the relative side-lining of Israeli state barbarism (not that it ever gets the breadth or depth of condemnatory stories it deserves) has had a knock-on effect on the size of this annual demonstration. However, as a friend who was on the whole demonstration and at the concluding Trafalgar Square rally pointed out, size isn't everything – the quality of the people protesting put her in mind of folks who don't just show up for another A to B march once a year, but spend plenty of time in between on the nitty-gritty of solidarity campaign work. And indeed, the recent controversy over UK lecturers' unions' backing an academic boycott of Israeli universities may well have something to do with the sizeable contingents of teachers, lecturers and even schoolchildren on the demo.

If you're moved to demonstrate practical international solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers, I recommend checking out the direct action stylings of the International Solidarity Movement:

http://www.ism-london.org.uk and

http://www.palsolidarity.org

For the most politically astute coverage and analysis of the ever-deepening middle-eastern crisis, I recommend the International Communist Current's 'Israel/Palestine' portal page:

http://en.internationalism.org/taxonomy/term/145

This event was organised by the UK's Palestine Solidarity Campaign:

http://www.palestinecampaign.org
Supported by: Muslim Association of Britain, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al Aqsa, War on Want, National Union of Teachers, Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Palestinian Forum in Britain

In International Solidarity,

Tim D Jones

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Comments

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Pictures

23.05.2005 14:05

Any pictures of the Far Right sympathisors that where there ?

Andy

Pictures, What Pictures?

23.05.2005 14:58

Hmmm… status line shows .jpg’s loading… but they don’t appear :-{ W'happen?

I've emailed

imc-uk-tech@lists.indymedia.org and

www-newswire@lists.indymedia.org to alert 'em to this novel failure mode -- maybe something to do with the server migration this last weekend. When the problem's fixed, I hope the fixer will also remove this comment.

Sorry, Andy -- didn't see any Far Right scumbags; this was bit of a flying photo-session.

Tim D Jones
mail e-mail: tim_d_jones@yahoo.co.uk

Andy...

23.05.2005 17:40

The far right sympathisers were probably busy attacking the Palestine solidarity picket up in Manchester with their zionist friends. Or perhaps they were visiting Israels Hitler-loving Phalangist friends in the Lebannon? By the way, are they still Israels loyal aliies and sdoes their leader still keep a photo of Hitler on his desk? Strange allies.

Go Home, Zionist Troll

alternative view of Lecturers Boycott

23.05.2005 22:48

You can read an alternative view of the lecturers boycott at our website

http://www.links-not-boycott.org.uk/

we are a grouping of socialist acedemics who oppose the AUT boycott of jewish acedemics. We favour solidarity and closer working with palestinian and israeli academics in the struggle for palestinian rights. You can sign our statement of solidarity or read the 30 or so articles against the boycott on our website

martin ohr
mail e-mail: admin@links-not-boycott.org.uk
Homepage: http://www.links-not-boycott.org.uk/

Links Comment

24.05.2005 10:45

Here are clickable links to two sets of photos of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's 'Free Palestine – End Israeli Occupation' demonstration, Sat 21 May 05 (and one to the photos I took at the Uzbek Embassy Demonstration which preceded it).

Set 1 of 2

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311674.html

Set 2 of 2

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311654.html

See also: Pix of Uzbek Embassy Demonstration, Sat 21 May 05

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311693.html

Tim D Jones
mail e-mail: tim_d_jones@yahoo.co.uk

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