Campaign for Free Speech Rally – Saturday December 12th
Ronnie Kassrills - former leader of the ANC military wing Umkonte we Sizwe and ANC Minister |
Solidarity message from Tariq Ali:
Angela Rayner tells #JLM2020: “If I have to suspend thousands and thousands of members, we will do that. Because we cannot and we will not accept an injury to one, because an injury to one is an injury to all.”
The response to this should be: “If we have to be suspended because we support the rights of the Palestinian people to live, plough their lands, tend their olive trees, defend their children and themselves and continue the struggle for equal rights in an apartheid state and for self-determination outside it, then we will.”
Chris William, the former Labour MP driven out of the Labour Party |
Last Saturday there was a Free Speech Rally with a range of speakers. They included
- Kerry Ann Mendoza, editor of The Canary;
- Professor Moshe Machover, the founder of Matzpen who has recently been suspended,
- Tony Greenstein an expelled member,
- Chris Williamson who was unlawfully suspended as an MP,
- Steve Zeltser, a US activist,
- Kevin Bean, an expelled member of the Labour Party and Labour Against the Witchhunt,
- Jonathan Coulter from Lib Dems for Free Speech,
- Craig Murray, who is currently being hounded by the Scottish legal system and a campaigner for Julian Assange,
- Ronnie Barkan, an Israeli activist living in Berlin;
- Leah Levane from Jewish Voice for Labour,
- Rowan Gaudet (Independent Jewish Voices Canada)
- Graham Bash, Editor of Labour Briefing
- Sammi Ramadani, an Iraqi anti-war activist and academic living in Britain
- Ronnie Kassrills, former Minister in the ANC Government from 2004-2008 and ANC Executive member.
Craig Murray - former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan before being dismissed by New Labour for speaking out about torture |
Unfortunately Ilan Pappe was
ill and Professor David Miller had child care commitments.
Jackie
Walker and Tina Werkmann chaired the two sessions which you can also see
separately.
Everyone
is agreed it was an excellent and moving conference and if you haven’t already
watched it (over 12,000 on Facebook have) then please do. I found Ronnie
Kassrills speech particularly interesting given his background in the overthrow
of the world’s previous Apartheid government.
Session 1
Session
2
Sami Ramdani - a last minute addition to the speakers |
The next stage is a conference scheduled on Saturday January 23, to discuss how
to build the Campaign for Free Speech in Britain and internationally. We also
hope it will discuss and amend a proposed Charter for Free Speech (DRAFT
document here).
It is also
proposed to hold a planning meeting on Tuesday December 22 at 6pm GMT which
will discuss the Draft Charter. The Zoom details are.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Topic: CAC
meeting: Campaign for Free Speech
Time: Dec 22, 2020 18:00 London
For further
details go to:
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