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Civil rights veterans callon Derry people to return to the streets to defend the right to protest.
Veterans of the civil rights movement have called on Derry people to return to the streets to defend the right to protest and to demand an end to the proscription of Palestine Action.
The 'Defend the Right to Protest' rally will take place on Saturday (July 19) in Waterloo Place.
Making the call for people to support the rally, vetern civil rights activist, Eamonn McCann said it was an "freedom of speech" issue.
He added: "Back in the 1960s, the Special Powers Act limited freedom of speech and thousands came onto the streets of this city to oppose that, and sectarian discrimination across the North. The same issues arise today.
"While a genocide is livestreamed to our phones and we see children starving to death in Gaza, the British government has deemed Palestine Action a 'terrorist organization', expression of support for which could open one to arrest, charged with supporting terrorism. This is precisely what happened in the 1960s when to express support for the civil rights movement meant being denounced by the authorities as supporting “terrorism”. This was said over and over again in the 1960s. It wasn’t true then and it is not true now: what Palestine Action is doing is peaceful, non-violent direct action.
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