Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Kurdish Protest through Harringay
Picture: Still from a video shot on Green Lanes by Hugh Flouch in October 2012
Following this week's events in Paris, you may not be surprised to hear that London's Kurdish community will be on the move again this weekend.
A protest march is planned for tomorrow, Sunday,13th January. It is anticipated that it will set off from Dalston and will travel north along the A10 to Stoke Newington Church Street and then into Harringay, ending at the Kurdish Community Centre on Portland Gardens.
If you're planning to use any of the roads - or visit Sainsbury's - be aware that there will be sever traffic disruption. I don't have any timings as yet but will let you know as soon as I hear anything.
Thanks to Cllr Canver, for passing on this information.
Tags for Forum Posts: kurdish, kurdish marches, kurdistan
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I trust the organisers will provide Harringay residents with simultaneously translated slogans
while banners and placards (sponsored by HOL and GLSG) should be subtitled in English .
Purely in the interests of saving us from another interminable discussion all next week on the
etiquette of Kurdish protest.
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Permalink Reply by ElleCarumba on
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Demotix story on Haringey protests
Story above might be of interest.
Is it likely to be after lunch? I think they've normally been early afternoon on Green Lanes in the past. My parents are driving over to deliver some things to me tomorrow so if there is any info on timing, that would be helpful.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks for the links and info; very helpful. I think Stan's info is going to be the best we're going to be given.
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Just in from Twitter
@harringayonline starts midday in Dalston area & arrives bottom of Harringay Ladder on Green Lanes about 3pm
— Haringey MPS (@MPSHaringey) January 13, 2013
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But, Osbawn, hasn't HOL been through all this in
June 2008,
Oct. 2008,
June 2010,
Oct. 2010,
Apr. 2011,
Mar. 2012 . . .?
As Birdy2, Michael, Hugh and others kept trying to say, it's not about raising awareness
among nice middle class anglophone Harringayites. We are not the intended audience. Besides, don't
marches or sit-downs with banners and chants have much more resonance and historical
civil rights identity/integrity/unity maintenance than nice polite WI stalls and leaflets in some
secluded corner?
All the more so after the assassinations in Paris on Thursday, whoever the perpetrators.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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If it hadn't been for these marches I wouldn't have known about the local Kurds and the Kurdish grievances. And didn't someone say that the local " Turkish " restaurants are Kurdish, not Turkish ?
I hope they carry on marching.
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I'm told they're all considered to be Kurdish, according to the local Turks I've spoken to.
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"Marching" and deliberately obstructing people going about their lawful business ( people seem to be sitting on the road in one of the kmflett photo's ) are 2 quite different things.
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The planned marches are fine (although I can't help be slightly peeved at the fact it takes a lot of police away from doing something more useful)
it is the "spontaneous" ones that are a problem - usually late night, on corner with Barclays (just by my flat), and consisting almost entirely of fairly threatening looking young men with no stewards or police to manage traffic etc. Those were the ones mentioned in the previous posting, which ended with the young "protestors" hammering on car windows and throwing stuff at a van.
There is a big difference between those two types of protest. The first is fine- the second is absolutely not.
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Permalink Reply by Ruth on
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I agree ElleCarumba, as I live right near there. You just never know when there will be a spontaneous outburst of protest and it can seem threatening. Sunday evenings not the right time for a residential area. I raised this issue with local community police when they came round last week but they just shrugged shoulders on this.
The executions in Paris should be protested against. Appalling terrorism. But I think that having the usual route along Green Lanes is not right one. Central London would be better surely? Higher profile, more attention.
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