London March is Massive !

Bill sends this pic of the huge march today which left a pile of children's shoes at the Cenotaph - now what will happen to those ?

The BBC Radio news reports the Police ( who seem to have trouble with simple counting - i.e how times did they shoot de Menezes in the head ?) say there were 20,000, but the organisers disagree. WTF - a lot of people marched and notably few of our elected and paid representatives.

Hundreds more protesters took to the streets of Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle and Sheffield.

Protestors took to the streets in Chicago organised by the American Council on American-Islamic Relations and in Amsterdam around 700 people gathered near Dam Square.

A show of solidarity with Israel is planned near London on Sunday evening and will be addressed by Britain's chief rabbi. "Israel has the right to defend itself against unprovoked attacks on sovereign soil," said Henry Grunwald, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

SUNDAY UPDATE

Several hundred people showed up on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa to denounce Prime Minister Harper's pro Zionist stance, at a rally organized by the Coalition of Arab Canadian Professionals and Community Associations on Saturday. They accused the Harper government of supporting the Bush administration and being responsible for bombs dropped in Lebanon and Palestine.

Bloc Quebecois MP Richard Nadeau, of Gatineau riding in the region, said Israel was using incidents like the kidnapping of soldiers to justify over-the-top military strikes.

"With what's happening in Gaza, it looks more like a genocide than humanitarian aid," Nadeau said at the protest. "As far as I know, in Gaza, there's one victim one group of people who are victims at present. One would only have to take a trip there to see who the victims are and see who is perpetuating this military force that is completely disproportionate."