12 Days of Christmas -some of my favourite pictures from those I made in April 2025.
London, UK. 5 April 2025. The first UK-wide Don’t Buy Apartheid day of action began with a protest outside Sainsbury’s Camden with protesters demanding that Israeli produce and Coca-Cola be removed from the shelves, and asking individual shoppers to join the boycott. Israeli fresh produce is grown in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land and Coca-Cola has a distribution centre for its brands in an illegal settlement in Jerusalem. Peter MarshallLondon, UK. 5 April 2025. A rally in Trafalgar Square joins in the mass mobilisation day of over 1300 protests across the USA by the non-violent Hands Off! campaign. Furious Americans protest against the chaos and lurch towards fascism of the Trump administration with its import tariffs, lunatic proposals on Ukraine and Gaza, threats to invade Canada, Panama and Greenland, gutting public services. Their illegal power grab is destroying democracy for the benefit of their billionaire allies. Peter MarshallLondon, UK. 12 April 2025. Londoners march through the East End from Altab Ali Park in a national day of actions to demand our government immediately stop arming Israel and demand Israel end its genocide which has already killed at least 50,000 Palestinians and displaced more than 90% of Gaza’s population multiple times. They were joined at Bethnal Green by others who had marched from Hackney. Peter Marshall.London, UK. 12 April 2025. A washing line of childrens clothes for the many children killed., A two hour Circle for Palestine vigil around the US Embassy opposite The Surge London Community Camp in Nine Elms showed solidarity with Palestinians and called out the complicity of the USA in the ongoing genocide in Gaza which has already killed at least 50,000 Palestinians and displaced more than 90% of Gaza’s population multiple times. They hold banners in a two hour vigil around the Embassy building. Peter MarshallLondon, UK. 19 April 2025. Many thousands fill Parliament Square for a rally and march through Westminster after the Supreme Court ruling that ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act means biological sex and that the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women. Although the judgement also stressed the importance of t2010 Equality Act London, UK. 26 April 2025. Luke Watson photo, Hundreds of Just Stop Oil supporters came to St James Park for a final march to celebrate the success of their civil resistance and to protest the draconian sentences being served by many of those involved in their peaceful protests, with others still awaiting trial. They marched around Parliament Square, many holding photographs of the ‘political prisoners’ before marching to a rally at the law courts. Peter MarshallLondon, UK. 26 April 2025. Hundreds of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers in The Landworkers’ Alliance march behind a tractor from a rally in Vauxhall to the Home Office to call for systemic change in our food system. They want a legal right to nutritous ecologically produced food for all and a national strategy to prioritise healthy food production and give fair incomes for land workers, including seasonal migrant workers who currently are illegally exploited. Peter Marshall
