Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Free Palestine Demo Yesterday on Thames South Bank, No violence.
Relatives visited us over the weekend. We decided to take a bus down to Waterloo. Getting off on Waterloo Bridge we walked down steps planning to stroll along the South Bank . Near the bottom was a group of some pro-Palestine demonstrators. I sat down close to them. They chanted a slogan and were entirely peaceful and well behaved. They didn't harangue or abuse me or anyone else there. They weren't scary or threatening.
I'm not a member of the group so I had no say in what they did or chanted. Personally I would have preferred some harsh criticism of genocide, especially killing children.
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Permalink Reply by Oli Brown on
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I understand that Greta was initially quite animated about the genocide in Venice.
@Mike C - you can use that 😉
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Oli Brown, could you please explain that reference for me? Do I correctly assume it's a dig at Greta Thunberg?
Or if Oli Brown declines to answer can someone else help me.
From the second line I suspect it's an attempt at a joke.I don't regard genocide as a suitable topic for joking. Or comedy in general.
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Martin. Have you ever read any history of anywhere in the world, where you found yourself feeling sympathy with the colonised? Or the enslaved? Or with ordinary humans pressured by great violence out of their homes or countrysides or cities in the interests of "great powers"; or just a medium power. And presented as inferior, or less civilised, or in any way opposed to the interests of the "side" your school books taught you, or maybe your parents told you were the good guys of the world?
I write this to you as I'm thinking about a man from the U.S. whose books I've read who described his astonishment learning as a student that Davey Crocket his childhood hero, died bravely defending part of the U.S. at the Alamo from a foreign attack. Because at the time it was legally part of Mexico.
A similar surprise from my college teachers was that English law was more than interpreting what some people in wigs in the UK said it was. And that there is a Law of Nations. Which was a better idea than Imperial might is right.
So there is no need for me or others to find what you Martin call "a new cause". Instead we can simply remember or maybe relearn our own country's history. at least part of the reasons for The United Nations; and its institutions such as the General Assembly; the World Court and more.
Admitting my own wide ignorance, I and maybe others could accept a need to learn the truth about violence and injustices in many countries. Even if it means occasionally paying attention to a "nasally song from a guitar-strumming Billy Bragg."T T \t
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