National Demonstration for Gaza. Saturday 9 August. No excuses. Be there
National Demonstration for Gaza
London Saturday 9 August
Assemble 12 Noon BBC Portland Place
March to Hyde Park via US Embassy
No excuses. This must be the largest ever UK demonstration for Gaza.
Get organised. Transport must be organised now
from every corner of the country, bringing everyone to London who is
outraged by Israel's barbaric onslaught.
Spread the word. Everyone must now mobilise
wherever they are in Britain, spread the word as widely as they can --
among family, friends, in their workplaces, colleges, community.
No excuses. Over the past three weeks, London has
held the biggest demonstrations for Gaza in the world, twice mobilising
over 50,000 protesters. But on Saturday 9 August we need to fill the
streets of London with a huge outcry at the carnage being perpetrated by
Israel, with the support of David Cameron and his government.
Reasons why. 25 days of the world's fifth most
powerful military force bombarding an area no bigger than the Isle of
Wight has killed almost 2000 Palestinians and injured 10,000 more. No
one and nothing has been safe from Israel's war crimes: 80% of the dead
are civilians, over 300 of them children -- women, the disabled, the
elderly, the infirm, all slaughtered by Israel's indiscriminate bombing
with missiles and shells.
More reasons why. Hospitals, schools, power
stations, sewage works -- Gaza's infrastructure is being turned to
rubble. Israel has declared more than half of Gaza a no-go area,
effectively announcing it will make Gaza a free-fire zone, when it knows
full well there is nowhere for its people to move that is safe, with
the borders sealed by Israel and Egypt's inhumane siege.
Gaza needs you. On Saturday 9 August, there will be
demonstrations in cities and towns across the world. We will be there
to say Israel's crimes against humanity must stop. And we will be there
in our solidarity with the people of Gaza, who need to know they are not
alone.
Watch this page for more updates coming very soon. And organise, mobilise, publicise. But above all, be there.
Eye on the prize - Free Palestine
John Rees from Stop the War Coalition,
speaking at the protest outside the Israeli Embassy in London on 1
August 2014, calls for the biggest ever UK demonstration for Gaza. Video
by Shahrzad Shemirani
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