Satellite dishes mount the roofs of buildings in El-Darb El-Ahmar slum.
Year: 2009
London pro-Gaza protest
My friend Adib sent me the following message from London:
Here is a 5min video of Saturdays protest. The riot police were deliberately provocative and indiscriminately violent. At some point they declared the protest a riot and rows of police on foot on horses and in vans encircled and trapped at least 1000 people. Over the next couple of hours the crowd was let out one by one, each person was required to say their name, address and date of birth to the police camera before being taken aside and thoroughly searched. When it was my turn to be searched my Aljazeera building pass was in my wallet. I was asked by the officer “Why did you say you did not have a press card?”
“This is not a press card” I replied
“Doesn’t Aljazeera support terrorism” he asked.
The conversation continued but my camera had been taken by this point.
Norwegian train drivers strike for Gaza
This is FANTASTIC:
On Thursday 8 January all trains in the whole of Norway, and all trams and subways in Oslo, stood still for two minutes in protest against the Israeli invasion. The union issued the following information for passengers:
“Because of the situation in the Gaza Strip, the Locomotive Drivers Union in Norway has decided to demonstrate our solidarity with the Palestinian people. This will be organized by adding two more minutes of stoppage at the station. The same action applies to all passenger trains in Norway simultaneously. We demand the immediate withdrawal of all Israeli troops from the Palestinian territory. Thank you for your understanding”.
Can we get strike action in the Greek ports to stop this?