{"id":170,"date":"2009-01-17T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-01-17T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T21:53:00","slug":"gaza-protest-trafalgar-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/gaza-protest-trafalgar-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza protest, Trafalgar Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos from the 3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: &#8220;Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade,&#8221; Trafalgar Square, central London.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade. Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday 17th January 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/images\/gaza-israel-protest-03.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade. Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday 17th January 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/images\/gaza-israel-protest-04.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade. Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday 17th January 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/images\/gaza-israel-protest-06.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"323\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade. Trafalgar Square, London, Saturday 17th January 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/protest\/images\/gaza-israel-protest-07.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The police had decided to pen everyone into the square so tempers were rising.<\/p>\n<p>I was taking pictures from outside the cordon and nearly got nicked:<\/p>\n<p><b>Stroppy cop:<\/b> &#8220;You! Get off the grass area&#8221;<br \/><b>Me:<\/b> &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to but you&#8217;re now pushing me back on to the grass&#8221;<br \/><b>Cop:<\/b> &#8220;Get off the grass NOW!&#8221;<br \/><b>Me:<\/b> &#8220;I am trying to comply but you are continuing to push me in the wrong direction. I am press phoographer. (shows press card). I am trying to do as instructed&#8221;<br \/><b>Cop:<\/b> &#8220;Get off the grass then.NOW! NOW!&#8221;<br \/><b>Me:<\/b> &#8220;Well stop shoving me back on to it then&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*cop finally stops shoving me into the grass area, and I step on to the pavement..<\/p>\n<p>Fucking prick.<\/p>\n<p>Excluding the testerone-charged police, there was certainly a few &#8216;hotheads&#8217; in the crowd including a fabulously hysterical woman who was dramatically pleading to the police outside the cordon, &#8220;<i>WHY WON&#8217;T YOU LET THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN GO FREE?!&#8221;<\/i> as people were happily walking out of the cordon next to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some photos from the 3rd National Demonstration For Gaza: &#8220;Israel Out Of Gaza Now: Lift The Blockade,&#8221; Trafalgar Square, central London. 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