Protest

I protested the West Boro Baptist Church protest.

It was something I was passionately against so I enjoyed it a lot.
It gave me a great adrenaline rush! I would love to do it again.
Making posters is also a great thing to do. :-)

I’m very opinionated. Had a lot of opportunities to participate in protests but they’ve been too far and since I can’t drive, couldn’t go! So I’m going to organize some myself :P

Along with 435 other students from my school, I walked out of class on Wednesday and stood on the side of the road with signs and chanted and marched to our district offices in support of our teachers and treating them with the respect our district just can’t seem to wrap their head around.

Please gather to protest along the official torch relay route. The route runs from Wembley Stadium to North Greenwich.Tibetans and their supporters will hold protests as the torch passes along the route.If you wish to join in at these designatied areas, they are:

At the corner of Queensway and Bayswater Road at 11am. The torch passes at around 11.30. Nearest tube: Queensway or Bayswater
At the junction of Bedford Place and great Russel Street at 11.45. The torch passes at around 12.20. Nearest tube: Russell Square or Holborn
At Richmond Terrace, Whitehall: please gather from 12.30. The torch should past at around 1pm. Nearest tube: westminster or Charing Cross

Also, come along to the Tibetan Freedom Torch Rally:
Argyle Square, London, from 2.30pm to 3.30pm. 5 minutes walk down Crestfield Street, directly opposite Kings Cross St. Pancras Station. This rally and cultural event includes speakers such as the reunited Drapchi nuns, Executive Director of Students for a Free Tibet Lhadon Tethong and Team Tibet, MP Norman Baker, and the Tibetan Community Dance Group. Come along for the lighting the Tibetan Freedom Torch, traditional and modern Tibetan music by Phuntsog and Chino, with support of one man band wonder Joe Driscoll.

Bring flags and banners and support the call for a free Tibet!
Free Tibet Campaign supports only peaceful protests, whether by groups or individuals

Protested in front of thousands of people at the St Patrick’s parade in London. Police and organisers tried to stop us and failed. Now I need to do more.

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION

THE TIME IS NOW

ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE

Join people all around the world to demand that world leaders take the urgent action we need to prevent the catastrophic destabilisation of global climate. The National Demo in London will be one of many demonstrations on climate taking place all around the world on the same day ( see here ), midway through the UN Climate Talks in Bali.
Timetable:
10.00 am Cycle Protest assembles at Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
11.00 am Service at St Matthews Church, 20 Great Peter Street (coffee from 10).
12 noon Assemble Millbank for main march [Westminster Tube]
2.30 pm Rally at US embassy.
Speakers include Chris Huhne MP, Michael Meacher MP, Caroline Lucas MEP, Zac Goldsmith, George Monbiot.
5.00pm to 8.00 am. After party and Fund-raiser at the Synergy Centre.
For the demo resouces page click here ( http://www.campaigncc.org/demoresources.shtml ), and find leafelts, posters, web-link buttons, email signatures, badges and T-shirts to order.

Relating to this goal, I am going to The Anarchist Bookfair tomorrow, Sat. 27, at St. Mary’s University in east London. I am not an anarchist but I think there will be a lot of interesting information here.

- The 27th Anarchist Bookfair – this is the largest and most important regular gathering of Anarchists in the world. It reflects the full range of Anarchist groups, publishers and activity.
By tube the two nearest stations are Mile End (central line / Hammersmith & City line or District line) or Stepney Green (Hammersmith & City line or District line). From Mile End tube come out of station and turn left. Walk along Mile End Road until you get to Harford Street and entrance to venue is opposite Harford Road. From Stepney Green tube come out of station and turn left. Walk along Mile End Road and venue entrance is on your left opposite Harford Road.

I still haven’t done anything about contacting companies on the Dirty List to ask them to cut their ties with Burma’s military government. Need to get moving on this. I will stick them on a spreadsheet to get started.

Lonely Planet is an Australian multinational publishing company specialising in travel guides. Lonely Planet publishes a guide to Burma which encourages tourists to visit the country. Lonely Planet also vigorously defends tourism to Burma, attempting to undermine calls by Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma’s democracy movement for tourists to stay away.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement have asked tourists not to visit Burma because it helps fund the regime and gives it legitimacy. Forced and child labour was used to develop many tourist facilities.

Please contact Lonely Planet and ask them to cut their ties with Burma’s military government.

Judy Slatyer
Chief Executive
Lonely Planet
90 Maribyrnong Street
Footscray, Victoria 3011
AUSTRALIA
Fax: 00 61 3 8379 8111
Email: talk2us@lonelyplanet.com.au

Burma is a country ruled by one of the longest running and most brutal military dictatorships in the world; a dictatorship charged by the United Nations with a “crime against humanity” for its systematic abuses of human rights, and condemned internationally for refusing to transfer power to the legally elected Government of the country – the party led by Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

In response to calls from Burma’s democracy movement, the Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups around the world have been pressuring companies to sever business ties with Burma.

In response to calls from Burma’s democracy movement, the Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups around the world have been pressuring companies to sever business ties with Burma.

Please contact one or more of the companies on the Dirty List and ask them to cut their ties with Burma’s military government. If appropriate, tell them you will not purchase their products as long as they continue to support the regime in Burma.

Letters written in your own words are most effective. If you don’t have much time, don’t worry – just one or two paragraphs will do. Please be polite!

The Burma Campaign UK and other campaign groups would be grateful if you could send them a copy of any responses you receive.

The Dirty List with company contact details
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/dirty_list/dirty_list_details.html