{"article":{"id":246540,"heading":"Anti-war activist Brian, who camped out in London's Parliament Square since 2001, has died","author":"Paul O'Hanlon","created":"2011-06-20 13:17:41","modified":"2011-06-20 13:17:41","last_modified":"Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:17:41","article":"   \r\n   \r\n       <\/b>
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\r\nBrian Haw<\/b> R.I.P. (7 January\r\n1949 – 18 June 2011)
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\r\nBrian Haw's demonstration for peace at London’s Parliament\r\nSquare started in June 2001 and thus pre-dates the September 11th\r\nattacks
\r\nand the US led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.\r\nHis protest was initially against the injustice and suffering caused to\r\nthe people of Iraq
\r\nby the UN economic sanctions and the bombing of the country by the US\r\nand UK.
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2011\/06\/480998.html
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\r\nParliament\r\nSquare\r\npeace campaigner Brian Haw dies\r\nby Paul O'Hanlon,\r\nIndymedia UK, 19 June 2011<\/span><\/small>
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\r\nLong time Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw has sadly passed\r\naway in hospital in Germany after a long battle with lung cancer. He\r\nwas 62.
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\r\nHis nearly decade long presence in London’s Parliament Square\r\ncaused the establishment no end of problems. He was arrested many\r\ntimes, was assaulted by an employee of the US Embassy and by an Israeli\r\n– both assaults resulted in a broken nose and\r\nhospitalisation. Parliament even brought in legislation (SOCPA -\r\nSerious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005) specifically to get rid of\r\nBrian and his protest by making it illegal to demonstrate within a one\r\nkilometre radius of Parliament without police permission. However he\r\nsuccessfully argued that as his protest predated the legislation it did\r\nnot apply to him.
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\r\nI first met Brian in 2002 and was so taken by his efforts that I tried\r\nto get down to London from Edinburgh at least once a year. I wrote a\r\nnumber of Indymedia reports – here is one from 2010 which\r\nmarked 9 years of the campaign in Parliament Square:
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2010\/06\/452634.html
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\r\nBrian’s heroic effort of living 24\/7 in such austere\r\nconditions will surely not be forgotten. The campaign he started will\r\ncontinue with Melbourne born Barbara ‘Babs’ Tucker.\r\n
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\r\nHere is the website for the campaign:
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\r\nhttp:\/\/www.brianhaw.tv\/index.php
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\r\nAs Brian himself would have said:\r\nLove…peace…justice…for all.
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\r\n<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.indymedia.org.uk\/en\/2011\/06\/480998.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Peace campaigner Brian Haw has sadly passed away in hospital in Germany after a long battle with lung cancer. Brian Haw's demonstration for peace at London?s Parliament Square started in June 2001 and thus pre-dates the September 11th attacks and the US led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. His protest was initially against the injustice and suffering caused to the people of Iraq by the UN economic sanctions and the bombing of the country by the US and UK. ","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2011\/06\/246540.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}