The Gerrard Chronicles 2011 - The Campaign Trail


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Now the Forces of Evil are entrenched in Government, this section is likely to get bigger as the years progress unless we have an 'Arab Spring' & overthrow the bastards.

MARCH 26th ANTI-CUTS DEMO DAY

We gathered in the morning on Highbury Fields to listen to speeches by our MPs, Emily Thornbury & Jeremy Corbyn & release balloons.

Emily

The balloons

Jeremy

Then, it was down to the Thames Embankment for the big TUC-sponsored march but, as we scattered to go there, we never found the Party Banner, so marched under the nearest appropriate banner we could find, as one do.


APRIL 2nd IRANIAN NEW YEAR

Ken has been supporting Iran Liberty with modest amounts of money & appearance at demos, since the ayatollahs took over in 1979. These are a secular Iranan resistance group with an establishment in Iraq called Camp Ashraf. They were once on the list of 'terrorist' organisations &, to get Iranian support to overthrow Sadaam Hussein the USA bombed the camp thr Iranian-controlled Iraqi government are constantly harassing the camp. This year, we were invited to the Iranian New Year feast & what a feast it was!


THAT DISGUSTING EVIL WRETCH - MURDOCH

The hacking scandal was all over the papers & media but only once it was revealed that the News of the Screws had hacked the murdered Milly Dowler's mobile telephone & helped o mess up the police enquiry. Otherwise, this media bandit would probably have aquired BSkyB on the nod from the bankers' friends in power, the bankers having until now have seen Murdoch as highly bankable. Many people do not realise that the monster has built his empire on borrowed money. Ken attended the demo outside the High Court when the matter of police access to News International's files was being sought. Ken says if he had been HomeSecretary, Wapping would have been surround by police tape, it being a crime scene & no Murdoch papers published until very slow & tedious legal actions had been completed. However, it has been proved that the police were hand-in-glove with Murdoch. Later, he & his son lied to the House of commons Select Committee. The lad on the right was one of the UKUnCut protesters who went into Fortnum & Masons, causing no damage but have been charged with criminal damage.

April 16th at the High Court

The three-day trial happened while we were on a cruise. All the defendants, who were aged 19 to 42, were given a six-month conditional discharge and a £1,000 fine for prosecution costs. One defendant, Jake Colman, was given a further fine after admitting breaching an order given in conjunction with previous environmental direct action.


APRIL 29th REPUBLIC ANTI-ROYAL WEDDING STREET PARTY

This took place in Red Lion Square after 'the authorities' tried various unsuccessful ways to stop it altogether. This attracted foreign TV as well as the BBC's 'Queen'. The slogan on the middle girl on he right is, "Less Wedding, more Beheading", which shows youth is not bamboozled by the celebrity culture around the royals. It came out later in th year that Prince Charles has been ringing up government ministers & givng them orders, which is right outside our unwritten constitution. Apparently, he has the 'right' to amend legislation that affects the Duchies, hat is, his businesses!!!

The BBC's 'Queen' with Corgi & who brought....

...cucumber sandwiches not just for Ken

Girls with rude Republican tee-shirts


THE ANTI-CAPITALIST CAMPS IN CENTRAL LONDON

That this was hapening seemed too good to be true. Ken visited both the St. Paul's camp & the Finsbury Square one several times, taking his giant rucksack full of supplies to the latter.

The St. Paul's Cathedral camp on October 17th, the police impotent to do aything about it

The Finsbury Square camp, permitted by Islington Council, on October 24th. Right, Ken with some of the supplies he took there

NOVEMBER 30th - THE STRIKE AGAINST THE PENSION CUTS

While this was the public sector workers event, many people thought it was against all the theft of pension money that private business has been conducting over the last three decades, so there was widespread public support. The events below were at Islington Town Hall.


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