Defend the right to protest

Public Meeting: Tuesday 2 March 6.30pm - 8.30pm

Support the Gaza protestors. Defend the right to protest.

Speakers include Jeremy Corbyn MP, George Galloway MP, Andrew Murray (Stop the War), Betty Hunter (Palestine Solidarity Campaign), speaker from British Muslim Initiative

Committee Room 19, House of Commons, London SW1, (St Stephens entrance, allow plenty of time to get through security). Organised by Stop the War, PSC, BMI and supported by CND. All welcome.

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 I will be atttending this meeting tomorrow night where the recent heavy prison sentences handed down to many (mainly Muslim) demonstrators who protested outside the Israeli embassy last year over the attack on Gaza will be discussed.

Many in the anti-war and civil liberties movement believe that this is an attempt to stifle protests against the war and particularly to criminalise and terrify the Muslim community. As an Irish person who faced a lot of this in the 80s and early 90s, I am familiar with the pattern. At a recent conference in London on Irish reunification a member of an Irish organisation in Luton commented that the Irish experience was the template for what was happening now to Muslims. I suggested that Irish organisations be involved in the planned Islamophobia conference being planned for the summer by Stop the War Coalition and other organisations.