The attack on the freedom flotilla delivering aid to Gaza is completely unwarranted and disgraceful. Reports of the number of dead and wounded vary but we're talking about at least a dozen killed and thirty seriously wounded by the Isreali Navy.
Israel made the ludicrous claim that the peaceniks opened fire on them and attacked them with baseball bats, which is why so many of them had to been killed. This is not credible. These murders, in international waters, are all in aid of ensuring that Gaza remains impoverished and denied medical equipment and other aid.
Words fail me. International protests and condemnation has already begun, but nothing yet from the UK government.
There will be protests today in;
London, Downing Street, 2pm
Aberdeen - St Nicholas Square, 5pm
Banff - Low Street, Council Buildings, 5pm
Brighton, Churchill Square, 6pm
Bristol, Centre (opposite the Hippodrome) starting at 3pm
Birmingham City Centre Waterstones 4pm
Cambridge, outside Guildhall, 2pm
Cardiff - Queen Street at Nye Bevan statue 3pm
Dundee - City Square, 5pm
Edinburgh - Foot of the Mound, 5pm
Glasgow - George Square, 5pm
Inverness - Townhouse, 5pm
Manchester outside the BBC on Oxford Rd, 5pm
Moffat - 2 Holm Street, 5pm
York St Sampsons Square, 2pm
Please do let me know of any I've missed.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Freedom Flottilla Attacked
Labels: Campaigns, Middle East
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Watched the tweets as the attack unfolded. Never Seen such a bloody disproportional attack. Israel comes out with usual lies. They need to be stopped in their inhumane treatment of Gaza - however many duff rockets are fired their response is outrageous.
There's a demonstration in Churchill Square Brighton at 6pm.
There's a protest at Monument in Newcastle tomorrow: http://thegreymatter.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/newcastle-protest-solidarity-with-the-freedom-flotilla/
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