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Only a month late, July 2016 is now completed on My London Diary,<\/em> and I’m beginning to think about starting August. I’m feeling just a little challenged at the moment about days and dates, realising just after I’d sealed the envelope yesterday that I had just signed several prints and documents and dated them 1\/9\/2016 that it was actually only the 31st August.<\/p>\n

I decided it didn’t really matter, though it perhaps might give the recipient an impression of a far more speedy postal service than we now actually enjoy. Long gone are the days when you could put a postcard in the post at lunchtime to say you were going to be late back for tea that same afternoon.<\/p>\n

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I started the month with Jeremy Corbyn in Islington, with a picture that attracted some interest on sartorial grounds, with some newspapers suggesting he had been splashing out on a designer jacket, though personally I thought it more likely to have come from an Islington charity shop. The event was against the post-Brexit vote race hate spike, and several other events in the month also reflected the referendum vote, and both this and the continuing attacks on the Labour leader made me and many others reflect on the nature of democracy in a country where the media is largely controlled by a handful of billionaires.<\/p>\n

The end of the month was for me dominated by more personal concerns – the funeral of and old friend and my elder son’s 4oth birthday and wedding. I considered whether to include these in my public diary, and have done so because they are of interest to a rather wider circle than those family and friends with whom they have already been shared, but with only a small number of pictures and an invitation to those who want more to contact me personally.<\/p>\n

The first picture below shows cleaners and supporters backing the strike by workers at 100 Wood St in the City of London on the 50th day of their strike. I was pleased around ten days later to hear that another protest planned had been called off because the action had been succesful. Obviously the determination of the workers and their union, the United Voices of the World was the major factor in this, but the very public actions like this one, shaming the companies concerned, are important. Protests and the media coverage they can get do work – if not every time.<\/p>\n

July 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

Cambridge, Raihanah & Sam<\/a>
\nSolidarity with Rampal protesters<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nReinstate the Wood St Two<\/a>
\nSam at 40<\/a>
\nTownly’s Funeral<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nStop Trident emergency protest<\/a>
\nPeoples Assembly\/Stand Up to Racism rally<\/a>
\nEDL march and rally<\/a>
\nCleaners Flash Mob at CBRE London HQ<\/a>
\nEnd Austerity, No to Racism, Tories Out!<\/a>
\nFalun Dafa march against Chinese repression<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nDefend our NHS<\/a>
\nSolidarity for Wood St cleaners<\/a>
\nTrident Mad Hatters Tea Party<\/a>
\nDisabled PIP Fightback blocks Westminster<\/a>
\nNHS Bill protest at Parliament<\/a>
\nPIP Fightback at Vauxhall<\/a>
\nHarmondsworth Moor<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nFocus E15 Occupy Police Station<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nBrixton stands with Black victims<\/a>
\nGreen Park Brexit Picnic<\/a>
\nEurope, Free Movement and Migrants<\/a>
\nEast End Sisters Uncut-Domestic Violence<\/a>
\nHousing Protest at ‘Progress’ conference<\/a>
\nGarden Bridge ‘Progress’ protest<\/a>
\nEnd the Israeli siege of Gaza<\/a>
\nStand Up for PrEP!<\/a>
\nBlair lied, Millions Died – Chilcot<\/a>
\nNUT Strike Day March<\/a>
\nSupporters Stand Up for Israel<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nAl Quds Day March<\/a>
\nArms dealers out of LT Museum<\/a>
\nJo Cox banner of love<\/a>
\n16-17 Year olds demand the vote<\/a>
\nRally For Europe against Brexit<\/a>
\nMarch For Europe against Brexit<\/a>
\nLove Islington – NO to Hate Crime<\/a><\/p>\n

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