present were :
Ronnie Kasrils - former minister in Nelson Mandela's ANC government and anti-Apartheid activist
Bongani Masuku - International Secretary Cosatu - the SouthAfrican trade union federation
George Mahlangu - Campaigns Coordinator, Cosatu - the South African trade union federation
They had some interesting things to teach the audience about what's right for the whole world, and how peaceful resistance to human rights abuses is the way to go.
Terry Brotherstonee General Council of the Scottish TUC union. Check their plain, clear and decisive investigation of the situation on the ground in the W.Bank & Gaza Str. (below, including some Banksy art.)
Yasmin Khan Senior Campaigns Officer for War on Want. She said that the main cause of poverty is war. What a surprise. If you're willing to kill your victims with guns, then starving them should be easy.
Prof Steven Rose. A declared non-self-hater (I heard him say so), from BRICUP.
Mr. O. Barghouti - Campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(Palestine)
He had stories of how people are being starved and deprived of water, and other, lesser, human rights violations. It's pretty ugly hearing about these kinds of things going on in our day. It's interesting to see how many UK institutions (unions, government, media) are complicit in this "slow genocide".
-These speakers'll be in Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow soon.
-Costick67 (8^P
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