May 2015 complete at last

May 2015 was an eventful month for me, both personally and in terms of the various events I covered. It was also a month of great political disappointment, that left me feeling very depressed about the future of the country. I was born as the welfare state came into being and grew up with it, and consider it one of the great British achievements of the 20th century. But since 1979 and the Thatcher government we have seen it being attacked; New Labour continued to wind it down, and the coalition took over the process. But now we have a government dedicated to greed and I fear for our future. Britain is becoming the kind of country I don’t want to live in. Though its now perhaps more that I don’t want my children and grandchildren to live in. I’m sad and I’m angry.

Here’s the listing:

May 2015

Mass rally Supports National Gallery strikers
Biafrans demand independence

UK Uncut Art Protest
Walking the Coal Line
Filipino Nurses tell Daily Mail apologise
People’s Assembly ‘End Austerity Now’
Ahwazi Arabs protest Iran’s war
NCAFC March against ‘undemocracy’
NCAFC rally in Trafalgar Square
Disco Boy plays Trafalgar Square
Police arrest man in Trafalgar Square
‘I am Edna’ – protect whistle-blowers
Class War protest Queen’s speech
Cody Dock Opening for ‘The Line’
White pride protest for David Lane
March Against Monsanto
Waiters Day – fair contracts and union rights
Photo London
Walk the City

Cleaners invade Barbican Centre
Silent protest over Sewol ferry disaster
Caged vigil for Shaker Aamer
Victory Rally For Jasmin Stone

Sweets Way & West Hendon at Barnet Council
Grant FGM campaigner Maimuna Jawo asylum
Lyme Disease – Urgent action needed
End Child Abuse, support Whistleblowers
Northern Interlude
We Stand with Baltimore – Black Lives Matter

Occupy Gandhi – stop fossil fuel criminals
Occupy Festival of Democracy
Baltimore to Brixton – Black Lives Matter!
Truth for Zane at Stand Up For Spelthorne
‘Reclaim the Beats’ at ‘Poor Doors’

Anti-Capitalists block Tower Bridge
May Day Rally supports National Gallery
May Day march against austerity and racism



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