Filmed by Chris Edwards
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Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia takes place in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend the period of detention without charge from 28 days to 43 days. Playwright David Edgar is seen in this clip speaking at the rally.

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Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia takes place in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend the period of detention without charge from 28 days to 42 days.

This clip shows Nottingham University Ph.D research student, Rizwaan Sabir, talking about his brief arrest by the police as a suspected "terrorist". He is researching the nature of political Islam and downloaded an Al Qaeda manual from the US department of Justice web-site as part of his research. He emailed the manual to a friend, Hicham Yezza, asking him to print it off on his behalf. This was reported to the police. His friend is now being deported to Algeria as a result. In this clip, he explains what happened during this absurd example of Islamophobia.

Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally takes pace against Islamophobia in the run up to the vote in Parliament to extend detention without charge (internment) from 28 days to 42 days.

This clips shows former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg, speaking at the rally. He was detained for 3 years and released without apology or explanation.

Manchester, England. 5th June 2008. A rally against Islamophobia is held at the Friends Meeting House.

This clip shows Manchester Stop the War Coalition chair Nahella Ashraf speaking at the rally.

Manchester, England. 6th June 2008. Alan Hart, writer and former BBC/ITN broadcaster, speaks at a rally on the 60th anniversary of al Nakba (the catastrophe). The catastrophe was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionists (with the connivance of Britain) in 1948 to make way for the Israeli state.

The rally forms part of a weekend of Palestinian cultural and political events to celebrate that fact that Palestine lives on despite the attempts to wipe it off the map.
By Chris Edwards:
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Manchester, England. 6th June 2008. Israeli historian Ilan Pappé speaks at a rally sponsored by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign on the anniversary of al Nakba (the catastrophe). The catastrophe was the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians carried out by the Zionists to establish the state of Isreal in 1948. Pappé exposed the suppressed history of this episode in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.

Pappé was formerly an academic at Haifa University. He now teaches at Exeter University in England.

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Filmed by Mick Berry

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Deputy Gen Sec of UNISON. Speech to strike rally at Friends Meeting House, Central London.
Filmed By striking UNISON member Nathan Servini:
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Shots of the demonstration against low pay by thousands of Local Government workers in London. Filmed By striking UNISON member Nathan Servini:
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