Following enthuseasm from last week's vigil, a second is being called this saturday, 17th January 10am-12noon.
This coincides with another day of national demonstrations (including in Penzance, at the bottom of Causewayhead, for anyone who is closer to there than to Falmouth, contact: pete@plumpeace.co.uk)
There will be participatory street-art, and please bring old/charity shop shoes - a photograph of a large pile of shoes will symbolically voice our shame on Israel for this internationally illegal military action. We will also try to send them to the Israel Embassy. I also suggest that anyone could individually send a shoe or pair of shoes to the embassy and inundate the embassy with these symbolic shoes of shame.
The attack is continuing to ecalate, with the illegal use of phosphorescent bombs against civilians, most of whom are already refugees from the Israeli regime. Demonstrations have broken records - the largest ever in solidarity with the Palestinian people - but are being violently repressed across the world, with London police beating sit-down protesters, over 500 Israeli protesters arrested, and those in the West Bank being shot at with live rounds. All the while, the number of dead, injured, homeless and starving civilians in Gaza continues to rise.
Local demonstrations are vitally important for showing the world the far-reaching dissent against these atrocities, and to raise awareness of the issues, support for the solidarity movement, and hope for the victims in Gaza.
See you on Saturday.
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Great event! There were about 30 people around most of the morning, sometimes swelling to 50. The silences were carried out with dignity. Between there were speeches and street games, with coloured chalks and with the elderly shoes. Our guardian angel from the D&C Constabulary was disquieted by the tossing of shoes at images of GWB and the PM, thinking it might be "an incitement to hatred" but his back-up seems to have disagreed. Pictures later . . .
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