{"id":17457,"date":"2025-06-02T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17457"},"modified":"2025-05-30T10:59:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:59:32","slug":"bonkersfest-trade-justice-brian-haw-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=17457","title":{"rendered":"Bonkersfest, Trade Justice & Brian Haw – 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bonkersfest, Trade Justice & Brian Haw:<\/strong> On Saturday 2nd June 2007 I photographed three very different events, a festival to publicise mental health issues, a protest calling on G8 world leaders about to meet in Germany to get on with eliminating poverty and finally a visit to Brian Haw who was celebrating six years of his peace protest in Parliament Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here I’ll copy – with a few corrections and clarifications – what I wrote back in 2007<\/a> about these events, along with a few of the pictures and links to the others which I posted then on My London Diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonkersfest – Camberwell Green<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I felt rather sorry for the poor guy who got shut into the bottom of the cannon at Bonkersfest on Camberwell Green for the duration of Joe Brand’s opening speech, then deafened by the cannon going off. All to throw bananas out through the mouth of the giant gun, the first of which came as rather a surprise when it hit me on the head. I ate it later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonkersfest has a more serious purpose, to make problems of mental health more visible and to rehabilitate offensive terms used about those with problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jo Brand was once a psychiatric nurse<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

more pictures on My London Diary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The World Can’t Wait: Anti-Poverty Protest – Lambeth & Westminster<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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From Camberwell I caught a couple of buses to take me to Archbishop’s Park in Lambeth, where supporters of the many organisations united in the anti-poverty campaign were meeting to send the message ‘the world can’t wait’ to government leaders about to meet for the G8 talks in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the park, supporters made their way down to the banks of the River Thames, stretching along both sides of the river (and in front of the Houses of Parliament themselves) between Westminster and Lambeth bridges, as well as on the bridges. It took rather a long time to assemble everyone for the several minutes of silence, after which there was much blowing of whistles, shouting and honking of horns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

more pictures on My London Diary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brian Haw: 6 Years in Parliament Square<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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I strolled down to Parliament Square where a rather longer demonstration was still in progress. Today marked exactly 6 years since Brian Haw began his protest against the killing of children in Iraq (and later about the war more generally.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video and photography have been powerful in Brian’s stay in the square, with Rikki filming many of the clashes with police<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That’s Six years of shame for Britain for supporting (and taking part in) the killing.
Six years of police harassment.
Six years of pressure by the government, including a whole section of an Act of Parliament designed to stop his and other protests.
Six years of shame for the New Labour government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although there were no police around at all during the couple of hours I was in the square, Brian told me that had been there this morning at 4 am, watching and taking no action as a group of hooligans attempted to provoke the Peace Camp protesters into retaliation. Waiting for it, to arrest not the hooligans but the peaceful protesters should they rise to the bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

more pictures on My London Diary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All photographs on this page are copyright \u00a9 Peter Marshall.
Contact me to buy prints or licence to reproduce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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