Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Protest on Green Lanes
In case you were thinking of driving down Green Lanes, it's blocked off for a (presumably Kurdish) protest march so take another route.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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When the Orangemen march in Belfast it's not just to protest, it's an assertion of a right. Please march from here down to the Turkish Embassy at Knightsbridge, then it will feel like a protest and I will join you.
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Permalink Reply by Natalia Griffiths on
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Hi Oktay,
Thank you for your post. As you say - the media have not really covered this issue in any insightful way and I'm glad I've read your explanation.
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Permalink Reply by Albert Ross on
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Good on them. The Turkish government is corrupt and increasingly authoritarian and the Kurds have been treated appallingly by all the nation states they live in. But we need more protests of our own like this. Would that the British would actually get off their arses and protest (and I include myself in that). Occupy was the most recent time people have protested and despite being crushed by the police that has had a massive effect, pushing inequality and our broken and corrupt financial up the agenda and influencing the way we look at the news media. Nothing gets politicians attention like mass rallys. Not even a Twitterstorm ;)
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Oh yeah, the 2003 anti-war march, the biggest ever peacetime protest march in Britian, had a great effect.
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The anti war-march in 2003 did not stop the war however Blair could never at any point say that that there was a consensus backing him, I know this is precious little comfort to the victims, but history, and learning from it, is important. The protest against the war did not end on that day either and perhaps the continuing public pressure on Blair and friends, supported by that huge global demonstration, gave legitimacy to those fighting to get at the truth behind the war and enabled a greater scrutiny exposing the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" fiasco, and all the lies.
Perhaps in the end it was Blairs unsupportable position on the war, (and the anti war march underlined the lack of public support for this war) together with all the exposes of lies that drove him from office. People are now more sceptical about politicians making it more difficult to wage war in this way.
Do demonstrations ever directly effect anything? The people demonstrating to stop cuts at Lewisham Hospital and The Whittington Hospital may think so. Do online protests ever change anything? The government did a U turn on the sell off of our forests after massive petitions. I'm sure there are more.
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John (can't link)
Re "which counts for more than sitting in your bedroom alone spouting on line"
While this was in a paragraph addressed to you John it was not aimed at you and I'm sorry that it comes over like that. It was meant to be a general statement about us all, me included (who was indeed at that particular time sitting alone in my bedroom 'spouting' on line), regarding the usefulness or not, of isolated individuals trying to change things as opposed to getting together to try to change things.
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