Despite Ban, London Oct 8 "stop the War" is on

[steevo]

Despite Ban, London Oct 8 "stop the War" march is on

"The authority for this march derives from our ancient right to free speech and assembly enshrined in our history. It is only fair to tell you that the march will go ahead, in any case, and I will be among those marching."
Tony Benn, in letter to the Home Secretary

"This is rather a ham-fisted attempt to prevent us from demonstrating. What the government and police do is up to them. We will just ignore them and we have the moral and logical high-ground. I will be marching on Monday 8 October."
Mark Thomas, comedian

http://www.stopwar.org.uk/

I am gutted that i am unable to be there to march to Parliament with them, I really desperately wanted to be there :(

Is anyone from here going on it ?

[dondaz]

I would love to go there to film it tomorrow, I'm in Brum if anyone wants to go and can pass this way? Not driving right now:mad:

"This is rather a ham-fisted attempt to prevent us from demonstrating. What the government and police do is up to them. We will just ignore them and we have the moral and logical high-ground. I will be marching on Monday 8 October."

Mark Thomas, comedian

Pure genius! It should be : Mark Thomas, Freedom Fighter, comedian.

[dondaz]

Just been on the phone to malvern, he'll let me know if he can make it tomorrow, I'll jump in with him:D

Cheers mate.

[irak]

..looking forward of seeing your video from the protest dondaz! ..don't be near the provocators!

[dondaz]

..looking forward of seeing your video from the protest dondaz! ..don't be near the provocators!

Won't know untill tomorrow for sure. Hey, I'll get them twats on film any day mate. I won't be protesting myself, as such. My protest will be the finished film, another kick in the bollocks for them.

Any provocotors come by me will soon fuck off that's for sure. If they've got their faces covered I'll pull it off and film them. I hope it stay peaceful though.

[ssyx]

I'm in London but I am working nights, finish at 630am.
Start again at 8pm.
Gonna try and get there but its going to be tough.
My only filming equipment is my phone unfortunately.
Hopefully I make it...:)

[shodan]

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,2185869,00.html

Anti-war protesters may defy march ban


· Thousands expected in Parliament Square
· Police invoke law brought in to counter Chartists

Martin Wainwright
Monday October 8, 2007
The Guardian


Thousands of anti-war protesters will mount a peaceful challenge to a ban on marches outside parliament today, unless there is a last-minute compromise with the police. Hundreds of extra demonstrators are expected to swell the protest after police and Palace of Westminster authorities agreed to stop the march in Whitehall with a measure drawn up to counter Chartist agitators 150 years ago.
Plans for the protest, to coincide with parliament's first day back after the summer recess and Gordon Brown's expected statement on Iraq, were first put to the Metropolitan police two months ago and no mention of a ban was made at three friendly meetings.

[ssyx]

Well I decided that I couldn't be trusted to wake up so I would stay awake all night, drink some vodka and worry about my nightshift later.
Parliament here I come... Well in 1 hour anyway.
I hope it is worth it.
I'm going to try and tag along with Tony Benn if i can find him.
Obviously i'll have my eyes open for a random brummy(dondaz) with a camera.
If I get any footage it will be on here as soon as i can get it up. I am slightly retarded when it comes to PC's though so forgive me if it takes a lttle time :)

[culturecreator]

I met Tony Benn in person, as he visited an Art gallery exhibiting anti war, pop art, by Gerald Laing. He seemed like a genuine guy, I specifically listened carefully as the artist described the very painting, which is my avatar (Masonic eye etc). The gallery was also showing his interview with Saddam, and I was sitting next to Benn as he watched it. He stirred his tea with his pen, a cool guy, who I believe is on "our" side (the peoples side that is, hopefully).

[bookini]

Thousands of people took part in an anti-war march to Parliament on Monday after police made a last minute decision to lift a threatened ban on the protest.


Andrew Murray, chairman of the coalition, announced to the crowd that the police relented just 30 minutes before the rally was due to start, adding: "This is a tribute to this movement and to everyone who has campaigned to assert our right to hold this Government to account for the criminal policies it is following around the world."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6980632,00.html

Looks like they bottled it! I guess they didn't want lovely scenes of police truncheoning peaceful protesters all over the news for the sheeplings to see! :rolleyes: Especially since certain events were criticised in Burma recently, now that wouldn't look good would it Mr Brown?!?

[shodan]

from the mirror, smell the bullshit

Four arrested at anti-war protest
By Jennifer Hill, LONDON (Reuters) 08/10/2007 17:10

Four arrested at anti-war protest

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Police arrested four people on Monday during an anti-war protest which was given the go-ahead only at the eleventh-hour, Scotland Yard said.

The four were detained for offences including assault on police officers and obstruction.

Hundreds of protesters marched from Trafalgar Square to parliament to call for the government to withdraw troops from Iraq as politicians gathered on the first day after the summer recess.

Police, who had earlier threatened to use a Victorian law to prevent the Stop the War Coalition demonstration, said the protesters had broken an agreement.

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"It was disappointing that, after assurances from organisers that they had no intention of disrupting parliament or preventing MPs from attending, a group of demonstrators held a 'sit-down protest' in the road in Parliament Square," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison said in a statement.

"To my mind this was not about lawful protest but about those who wished to deliberately flout the law and inconvenience others."

Permission to hold the event was given less than an hour before the start, organisers said.

Authorities had effectively banned the march under the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839, which dates from the time of the Chartist protest movement, a period when the ruling class believed they were on the brink of social revolution.

The Stop the War Coalition had been determined to go ahead with the march even without the official green light.

Convener Lindsey German told BBC Radio Four: "We think, in a democracy, we should be allowed to go to our parliament."

She also questioned the timing of the move.

"We have to ask: why is it (the Act) being raised at this time? I guess that Gordon Brown would like to draw a line under the war in Iraq and demonstrations on the first day that parliament comes back are probably an embarrassment to the government."

(Additional reporting by Avril Ormsby)

[malvern]

freedom, long live freedom, long live people power :D:D:)


freedom:)

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[steevo]

Dondaz and Malvern, did you manage to get to the London march ? How did it go, give us some details please cos the coverage on tv and radio has been, as expected, zero.

[ssyx]

Dondaz and Malvern, did you manage to get to the London march ? How did it go, give us some details please cos the coverage on tv and radio has been, as expected, zero.

I was there till about 5pm. Had to go home to grab one hour sleep before this nightshift I'm in the middle of right now.
I was surprised how obedient the crowds were actually. The police were only letting maybe 100-200 cross from the bottom of whitehall into parliament square at a time and then holding everybody back to let cars pas for 5mins.
After a while though everyone started sitting down and chanting, linking arms and stuff. I quite enjoyed it actually.
A couple of arrests for lying on the road it looked like, not too sure as I was on the other side of the road.

[mynameis]

With all that money as a news organization you'd think they could have afforded a camera and snapped pictures. Damn Big Biased Cunts (BBC).

[synak]

With all that money as a news organization you'd think they could have afforded a camera and snapped pictures. Damn Big Biased Cunts (BBC).

They already have cameras on the streets watching us lol :p, they have no excuses. Bastard cunts indeed.

[shodan]

Mobilise our local communites in peaceful well turned out protest, (aimed at council buildings) and for once and for all, lets tell these people that they have been foiled and found out, and that they are going to have to face the fact that they are in court for treason

[lottie]

LOL- how hypocritical....

Police, who had earlier threatened to use a Victorian law to prevent the Stop the War Coalition demonstration, said the protesters had broken an agreement.

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"It was disappointing that, after assurances from organisers that they had no intention of disrupting parliament or preventing MPs from attending, a group of demonstrators held a 'sit-down protest' in the road in Parliament Square," Deputy Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison said in a statement.

"To my mind this was not about lawful protest but about those who wished to deliberately flout the law and inconvenience others."


'they had no intention of disruption.... they had a sit-down protest':eek:

:confused: UM,, hows a 'sit-down' protest disruption? what did they expect a protest to be like? everyone quietly one by one nipping into parliament square and shouting in a hurried tone 'Stop the War' then scurrying off to let someone else have a turn? LOL!!!:rolleyes::D

[deca]

"To my mind this was not about lawful protest but about those who wished to deliberately flout the law and inconvenience others."

I think the people of IRAQ feel inconvenienced
and laws have been deliberately flouted!!

[ssyx]

The police had a few photographers there with big cameras snapping away, pictures of everyone for their database I guess.

[steevo]

I was there till about 5pm. Had to go home to grab one hour sleep before this nightshift I'm in the middle of right now.
I was surprised how obedient the crowds were actually. The police were only letting maybe 100-200 cross from the bottom of whitehall into parliament square at a time and then holding everybody back to let cars pas for 5mins.
After a while though everyone started sitting down and chanting, linking arms and stuff. I quite enjoyed it actually.
A couple of arrests for lying on the road it looked like, not too sure as I was on the other side of the road.

The police had a few photographers there with big cameras snapping away, pictures of everyone for their database I guess.

Thanks for that info ssyx and thanks for going on the march and you did it even tho you had to do your night shift straight after, must have been tiring but definitely worth it, well done mate. Thanks go to Dondaz and Malvern, I think they intended on going too.
If there werent people like you who did these things then GOD I dread to think...

I bet the police only let a few at a time go to Parliament square so that it looks like only a few were there on the photos.

[steevo]

http://www2.talksport.net/inside/inside.asp?a=17

The above link to TalkSport radio has a "listen live!" button so you can listen online.

Tony Benn is on the James Whale show talking about why he is coming out of retirement and going back into politics.