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The Gardens
The Gardens Conservation Area is situated in south Peckham, on the west side of Peckham Rye Common. Peckham Rye and the common itself forms the eastern boundary of the conservation area, the East Dulwich Road runs east-west close to the northern boundary of the conservation Area and provides access into Oakhurst Grove in the conservation area. The core of the area is The Gardens themselves, a neat square of houses around a central green space. They include the adjacent streets of Oakhurst Grove and Kelmore Grove.
London Bridge, London, England, UK
One of the most recognisable buildings in central London is the Shard, a pyramidal 72-storey skyscraper which was completed in 2013 and is, at the time of writing, the tallest building in the United Kingdom. The Shard is situated on the south bank of the river Thames, in the old City of Southwark, and has a balancing effect on the London skyline – the majority of the high-rise buildings being in the City of London on the north bank. On this winter morning, the weather was in transition, too. After the ice came the fire; after the fire came the rain.
Detail from one of the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London. Built by Sir Edward Lutyens between 1937-1939. The old ones that were replaced and now are installed, one in Ottawa and the other in Regina, Canada.
Taken while walking through the Gardens a lovely square on the way to Peckham rye park..late afternoon..the light was just stunning..
Morgan Street, Tredegar Square. A grand square of Georgian houses in Mile End, begun in the 1830s and completed in the 1840s.
I minute from Tottenham Court Road is this lovely oasis garden right in the centre of London, beautiful.
Former Royal Star and Garter Home, Richmond. It has now been purchased and is about to be turned into flats :/
West side of Fitzroy Square consisting of 13 terraced town-houses of neo-classical design, built 1832-35 and the last side of the square to be completed. The design complements the earlier terraces to east and south by the Adam brothers, but used less expensive materials due to an economic depression. Grade II* listed. London Borough of Camden.
On March 19, 2016, the organisation Stand Up to Racism held a national demonstration, 'Refugees Welcome', to send out a hugely important message to the British government and to other EU governments that refugees are welcome in the UK and across Europe. I wasn't able to make it to the march, which began at Portland Place, although I was determined to show my face, and made it to Trafalgar Square for the rally, where I took this photo of a protestor sounding an appropriate alarm about Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner for the party's nomination in this year's Presidential election, who persistently demonstrates an alarming racism -- against Muslims, black people and Mexicans, to name just three groups.
Europe's refugee crisis ought to make Europeans respond with generosity to the greatest humanitarian crisis in most people's lifetimes, and yet, throughout Europe, the barriers are going up physically, and the emotional shutters too. People who were in most cases brought up in a religious context are shunning the care for those less fortunate than ourselves that all religions demand, and we are, above all, demonstrating a lack of compassion and empathy that I find disgraceful.
I understand that there were around 15,000 people on the march, which is commendable, of course, but much more action is needed -- both in the UK, and across the EU, where, because of Macedonia and other countries closing their borders, a huge bottleneck has built up in Greece. In response, on the eve of the protest, a deal was agreed between the EU and Turkey to send refugees back across the Aegean Sea, which aid agencies have criticised as inhumane.
For my website, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For Stand Up to racism, see: www.standuptoracism.org.uk/
For the protest, see: www.facebook.com/events/1518644688427867
For the EU-Turkish agreement, see: www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/18/refugees-will-be-se...
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
On April 24, 2013, campaigners calling for the release from Guantanamo of Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, held a demonstration outside Parliament following a Parliamentary debate in Westminster Hall from 9.30 to 11 am. Shaker, who has a British wife and four British children, is one of 86 prisoners cleared for release by an inter-agency task force established by President Obama in 2009 but still held.
The debate followed a successful e-petition, calling on the British government to "undertake urgent new initiatives to achieve the immediate transfer of Shaker Aamer to the UK from continuing indefinite detention in Guantanamo Bay," which secured over 100,000 signatures, making it eligible for debate.
The debate was introduced by Jane Ellison, the Conservative MP for Battersea, Shaker's home constituency, where his wife and family live, and it was supported by other MPs including Caroline Lucas (Green, Brighton Pavilion), the Labour MPs John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn, Kerry McCarthy, Jim Cunningham, Stephen Timms, John Woodcock, Russell Brown, Yasmin Qureshi, Gavin Shukur, Andy Slaughter and Anas Sarwar, the Conservative MP Mike Freer, and Mark Durkan of the SDLP and the Independent MP Eric Joyce.
The government -- via Alistair Burt, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs -- responded with the usual claim that "It is the long-standing policy of the Government that we should seek the release and return of those UK nationals and former legal residents who have been held at Guantanamo Bay and, in so doing, assist the US Administration in their efforts to close the detention facility." However, Mr. Burt also noted that "any decision regarding Mr Aamer’s release ultimately remains in the hands of the United States Government."
Campaigners -- myself included -- will continue to work to exert pressure on the British and American governments to secure Shaker Aamer's release.
For Shaker Aamer's most recent accounts of the current prison-wide hunger strike in Guantanamo, which began on February 6, 2013, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/04/02/from-guantanamo-shak...
and: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/04/16/people-are-dying-her...
For the now-completed e-petition, see: epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/33133
For an ongoing international petition, see: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/shaker-aamerguantanamo-bay/
Also see the website of the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign: saveshaker.org/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
On July 18, 2013, the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign held a vigil outside Parliament for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, whose British wife and four British children patiently await his return in south London.
Disgracefully, Shaker is still held despite being cleared for release under President Bush and under President Obama. He is one of the many hunger strikers at Guantanamo, who have been refusing food since February to protest about their ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial, to which there appears to be no end in sight -- even for the 86 men (Shaker included) who were cleared for release by the inter-agency Guantanamo Review Task Force, which President Obama established shortly after taking office in January 2009.
The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign held lunchtime vigils outside Parliament every weekday for several months before Parliament's summer recess began, and will return in September if he is not freed. There is no excuse for Shaker still to be held, and it is disgraceful that (a) the US government wants to return him to Saudi Arabia, the country of his birth, where he would almost certainly be imprisoned, and not allowed to be reunited with his family, and (b) the British government has not done all in its power to demand and secure his return to the UK, as is their obligation.
For a video of Andy Worthington talking about Shaker at this protest, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/07/22/video-andy-worthingt...
For Shaker Aamer's most recent accounts of the hunger strike in Guantanamo, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/05/31/from-guantanamo-shak...
www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/06/24/i-wish-i-was-dead-sh...
For his court submission, with other prisoners, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/08/05/shaker-aamer-and-oth...
For an international petition calling for his release, see: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/shaker-aamerguantanamo-bay/
Also see the website of the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign: saveshaker.org/
For more on Andy Worthington, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
UPDATE JUNE 2017: I've just set up a Facebook page, 'The State of London', featuring, every day, a photo of London from my five years of cycling around and taking photos of the capital. Please join me! www.facebook.com/thestateoflondon/
On Wednesday October 9, 2013, Ray Silk of the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign took this photo of me during a vigil convened by the SSAC outside Parliament for Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in Guantanamo, whose British wife and four British children await his return in south London. In the background is the Foreign Office.
Shaker -- along with 83 other men still held, out of 164 prisoners in total -- was cleared for release by a military review board under the Bush administration in 2007, and by President Obama's inter-agency Guantanamo Review Task Force in January 2010, but he is still held because of Congressional obstructions, and President Obama's unwillingness to spend political capital overcoming those obstacles. Although the British government has been calling for his return since 2007, it is also apparent that his release has not been made a significant enough priority by ministers, or he would have been freed by now.
The Save Shaker Aamer Campaign held lunchtime vigils outside Parliament every weekday for several months before Parliament's summer recess began in July 2013, and will be holding lunchtime vigils every Wednesday in October 2013.
For my most recent articles about Shaker Aamer, see:
www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/09/28/guantanamo-prisoner-...
www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/10/04/in-court-guantanamo-...
www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/10/06/clive-stafford-smith...
For a transcript of the Westminster Hall debate, see: www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/04/26/return-shaker-aamer-...
www.andyworthington.co.uk/2013/04/29/return-shaker-aamer-...
For an international petition calling for Shaker's release, see: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/shaker-aamerguantanamo-bay/
Also see the website of the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign: saveshaker.org/
For my most interesting photos, see: www.flickriver.com/photos/andyworthington/popular-interes...
UPDATE JUNE 2017: I've just set up a Facebook page, 'The State of London', featuring, every day, a photo of London from my five years of cycling around and taking photos of the capital. Please join me! www.facebook.com/thestateoflondon/
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