Via Stop The War:
National Demonstration: Saturday 10 January
Stop the Massacre: Israel Out of Gaza
Assemble 12.30pm Speakers Corner, Hyde Park
March to Israeli Embassy, High St Kensington, London
Daily protests 5 - 9 January, 5.30pm-7.00 pm
Israeli Embassy, High St, Kensington, London
“This is Dante’s Inferno, hell. There are injuries here you just don’t want to see in this world. Children coming in with their abdomens open and legs cut off. We just had a child and we had to amputate both legs and an arm. Their only crime is that they are civilians, Palestinians, living in Gaza. The bombing has to stop immediately. This cannot go on. Anyone who portrays this as a clean war against another army is lying. This is an all out war against the civilian population in Gaza. They cannot flee as other populations can in war time because Israel has them trapped in a cage. Israel is bombing one and a half million people trapped in a cage.” - Mads Gilbert, Norwegian Doctor working in Gaza
UPDATE: Stop the War have just publicised yet another important reason to make sure you are on that march on Saturday - the British Government are trying to prevent it from taking place:
Stop the War Coalition
Press Release
Saturday 3 January 2009
Immediate
www.stopwar.org.uk
Contact:
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229GOVERNMENT BLOCKS GAZA DEMONSTRATION AT ISRAELI EMBASSY
Ministers are obstructing the holding of a national demonstration on Saturday
to protest against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, march organisers said today.Officials of the Royal Parks Agency, acting under the authority of Culture
Secretary Andy Burnham, have blocked a plan to hold a rally in Kensington
Palace Gardens near the Israeli Embassy in London.The demonstration, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine
Solidarity Campaign and British Muslim Initiative, is expected to attract tens
of thousands of people from across the country, outraged at the massacre of
Palestinians taking place in Gaza."The arrangements for our march and rally were notified to the police days
ago," Stop the War Coalition chair Andrew Murray said today. "We have now
found that they are being blocked by the Parks authorities, in consultation
with ministers, on the spurious pretext of a lack of precedent."This nonsensical argument recalls government attempts to stop the rally
against the Iraq war in February 2003 on the grounds that the grass in Hyde
Park might be damaged."Ministers should understand that the anger against Israeli aggression against
the Palestinian people is also without precedent. We are determined to
exercise our democratic right to express that outrage in a public space near
the Israeli Embassy."Attempting to block our plans - which have been drawn up with a view to
ensuring a peaceful and orderly protest on Saturday - risks making thousands of
people angrier still."We are therefore seeking an urgent meeting with Mr Burnham to ensure that he
removes these bureaucratic obstructions and allows our protest to proceed as
planned."FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229
Press Office
Stop the War Coalition
27 Britannia Street
London WC1X 9JP
www.stopwar.org.uk



May the Force be with the people of Gaza and specially Children