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End Gaza SlaughterLondon Demo 28 December 2008On 27th December Israel started its genocidal bombing of Gaza, with in a few hours over 250 people had been slaughtered. An emergency demonstration was arranged for the next day at 2pm outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington. Being called at such short notice the police assumed only a few dozen people would turn up and set up a small holding pen for them, far away from the Israeli embassy on the other side of the street. Thousands turned up, all the streets approaching the embassy were full of protesters, it was only a matter of time before the holding pen would burst open.  Thousands of demonstrators in the holding pen..  Its all about eliminating the Palestinian peoples choice - their elected Hamas government.. In the end it was the throwing of a single shoe by a lone demonstrator at the iron gates of the embassy approach and the subsequent over reaction by the police - four of them jumping on him, that ignited the keg which broke the holding pen. Hundreds of demonstrators broke through the barricade and came to his defense. The police panicked and drew their steel truncheons.  If injustice becomes law.. resistance becomes duty Stop Gaza Slaughter Barbarism has a face - America and Israel  The shoe and the flag.. It was no use, the people could not be contained - they had crossed the road and reached the gates of the embassy approach. One brave demonstrator climbed the embassy gates and nearly succeeded. Another poured red liquid symbolizing Palestinian blood across the paving stones outside the embassy gates.  Out of the police pen.. and at the embassy gates  Stop Gaza Holocaust.. Short speeches were given by Ismael Patel (Friends of Al-Aqsa), Yvonne Ridley (Peace Activist), and George Galloway (Respect MP). Yvonne Ridley revealed that "I was given this Palestinian passport by Ismail Haniyeh. Ismail Haniyeh said to me 'You are now a Palestinian citizen'. I said to him 'At last I have a Prime Minister of whom I can be proud!' Today we are all Palestinians.."  George Galloway and Ismail Patel Police were using unnecessary force to push people away from the embassy gates and they formed two police lines blocking Kensington High Street preventing people coming from the tube station from reaching the demonstration. Half a dozen attack dogs were used to intimidate the demonstrators not to break the police lines. Police spy helicopter stayed overhead for over two hours.  Stop starving the Palestinians  Whose side are you on? When the people responded with a sit down protest the police charged them with no regard for women, children or the elderly. When that didn't work they called reinforcements and started getting very heavy handed. People responded with chants of 'Shame on you!' Police started arresting anyone they could grab, dragging them violently to the police vans.  Police lines blocking Kensington High Street The demo ended after sunset with many Muslim performing their prayers on the street.  Muslims performing prayers End Gaza Slaughter Video,
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 [all videos (over 200)..] Featured MP3 Podcast  "1763 in the Ohio river valley you got Lord Jeffrey Amherst committing to written order an instruction to his subordinate Henry Bouquet, having been defeated by Pontiac Ottawa confederacy in the field. The order essentially says that they have been defeated militarily and is therefore necessary for Amherst forces to request a peace, to sue for peace from Pontiacs people. He instructs Bouquet to convene a parlay with the Indian leadership for that purpose. And as is the custom, as is common courtesy among native populations as was known to the Brits at that time, it would be necessary for those who requested the council to give gifts to those requested to attend. Make those gifts, Amherst says, items taken from a smallpox infirmary in order, I'm going to quote directly now, this isn't a paraphrase: 'in order that we may extirpate this execrable race'. Now key is on this last word, had he said that we might eradicate the opposing combatants, their military capacity, their warriors.. what ever term he wanted to use, it would have been biological warefare. But he didn't say anything about that, he said the 'race'. His intent was to use biological means, to use disease, quite explicitly so, to eradicate an entire population group. And Bouquet was also kind enough to commit to writing in his response the next day, I have done as instructed, dispersing three blankets, two handkerchiefs and sundry other items, hopefully, he says, they will have the desired result. They did.. the lowest estimate of the number of people who died of smallpox as a result of that little gesture of friendship and goodwill is a 100,000!" American Indian scholar, activist in the struggle for liberation of Indigenous Peoples in America On the publication of the book 'A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present', 1997 [29min / 10Mb] [need flash]
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