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\nTurkish activists greet the Haringey march for Gaza in Wood Green<\/small><\/p>\n

One of the reasons there have been fewer posts than usual recently here on >Re:PHOTO<\/strong> is that I’ve been busy trying to catch up with putting my work on-line in My London Diary<\/a>.\u00a0 August has traditionally been a month when things quieten down and there is little real news. Journalists used to have to sit down and make up stories, or try and make stories out of mildly odd (or sometimes entirely usual) events. While plenty of papers now fill themselves with that kind of nonsense all year, there was no need for an extra dose this August, as plenty of news kept happening – and the protests didn’t seem to slacken at all.<\/p>\n

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There seems also to be a growing number of anniversary events in August – some observed for many years – 69 years since the first atomic bombs with a Hiroshima Day Ceremony<\/em> on Aug 6 every year – and this year a seven-mile long pink scarf for Nagasaki<\/em> day.\u00a0 But this year was also the centenary of Marcus Garvey’s founding of the\u00a0 Universal Negro Improvement Association<\/em> 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War<\/em>, the second anniversary of the Marikana miners massacre and the campaign against ‘Page 3<\/em>‘ and a year since the chemical massacre<\/em> by the Syrian regime in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta and the massacres by Egyptian forces at Rabaa and Nahda<\/em> squares.<\/p>\n

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But there were also protests over new and continuing injustices which I covered, both about those taking place in the UK and those abroad which prompted protests in London. And even on the one day when I got out of London for a walk in the country I couldn’t help but reflect on the incredible gulf between rich and poor – something which the continuing series of Class War protests against separate doors for rich and poor highlights. In a sense there is nothing special about One Commercial Street, with its back entrance down a dingy alley for social housing tenants but it is a clear indication of the increasing polarisation and inequality in our society.<\/p>\n

Aug 2014<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

South East Alliance ‘Racist Thugs Not Welcome’<\/a>
\nSodexo: racism & unfair dismissal<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nHands Up! Against racist Police Shootings<\/a>
\nNo More Page Three<\/a>
\nTamils protest Sri Lankan rapes & killling<\/a>
\nSyria Chemical Massacre Anniversary<\/a>
\nGaza Protest – Stop Arming Israel<\/a>
\nDivided Families protest over cruelty<\/a>
\nJubilee River & Taplow<\/a>
\nClass War steps up ‘Poor Doors’<\/a>
\nShame on You Theresa May<\/a>
\nSolidarity with Ferguson<\/a>
\nSecond Anniversary of Marikana Massacre<\/a>
\nKoreans call for special Sewol Ferry Act<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMarch against ISIS massacres<\/a>
\nR4BIA remembers Egyptian massacres<\/a>
\nBoycott Israel – Boycott M&S<\/a>
\nKurds Protest against ISIS<\/a>
\nClass War’s ‘Poor Doors’ Picket 3<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nEnd Fast Track deportations<\/a>
\nWool Against Weapons<\/a>
\nBring Back Mark Harper’s Cleaner<\/a>
\nUkrainians & Georgians Putin Protest<\/a>
\nSolidarity with Palestinian Prisoners<\/a>
\nHiroshima Atomic Victims Remembered<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nNo Glory No More War<\/a>
\nHaringey March & Rally for Gaza<\/a>
\nSainsbury’s protest at illegal Israeli Goods<\/a>
\nBoycott Israeli Blood Diamonds<\/a>
\nVedanta told ‘end your killing’<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nRastafari demand reparations for slave trade<\/a><\/p>\n


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