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“Remember Gaza – Stop Arming Israel – Boycott Barclays” Saturday’s commemoration report and photos

August 31, 2015

29AUG04“Remember Gaza”
“Stop Arming Israel”
“Boycott Barclays”

Our day of rememberance and protest
Saturday 29 August 2015

 

To mark the one-year anniversary of the 50-day assault on the people of Gaza last summer, we held a protest and a memorial procession through the city.

For more reports and photos visit Michaela’s Demotix pages

IMG_0319And click here to watch a film of the procession and vigil

 

At 1pm we assembled outside Barclays Bank, in North Street, to demonstrate against the bank’s investments in the arms industry and to ask the public to boycott Barclays until it divests from its deadly profiteering.
We also made our banner, with the help of an enthusiastic public. It read ‘Remember Gaza’ in letters made up of ‘blood red’ handprints.

 

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IMG_0334Then at 3pm, after a short speech from the local artist who created the 90 portraits of the Gaza victims, the activists carried the portraits and Palestinian flags in a silent procession along the seafront to Brighton’s Peace Statue. On the beach, after a recitation of poems by Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Walid Khazindar, red and white flowers were scattered in the sea, in memory of more than 2,200 Palestinians killed in the 50 day assault.

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