Thousands turn out for protest rally in city, march over bridge, on national day of action

Larissa Waters, the leader of the Federal Green, with the representatives of the Max Chandler-Mather and trade unions, community and belief leaders.

Local Assembly members Seal Chong Wah, Trina Massey, Lucy Collier and Jared Cassidy, State Greens Deputy Michael Berkman and other greenery politicians, including Bismma Asif of the State Labor Party deputy were also seen in the crowd.

Brisbane’s rally was one of the 40 people in towns and cities in Australia for a day organized by the Palestinian Action Group and approved by the International Amnesty International.

At least 90,000 pro -Palestinian protesters came across the Sydney Harbor Bridge and stops three weeks later by stopping the largest city in Australia.

The Brisbane march was initially planned to cross the story bridge, but after a long struggle through the courts, organizers from activist group justice for Palestine announced an alternative route on Friday.

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Protest Organizer Remah Naji addressed Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner for the crowd by accusing him with a mourning of solidarity to a mourning community ”because he opposed the story bridge plan.

Protesters Naji, Queensland Police and Brisbane City Council referring to the court wars and adding the following by adding the following and adding “These institutions entered our trap”.

Chandler-Mather has made his first high-profile speech since he lost Griffith voters, and using the platform to shift him to the party that overthrew him in the last election.

“The worker and the liberal party rely on the fact that you will lose hope,” Queens said to the crowd.

“They will do everything they can to demobilize this movement for peace. We can’t let them win.”

Friends Noor Bibi, Kathleen Norton and Chels Hood Withy traveled from the north rivers to attend the rally.

Bibi, after walking with 300,000 people in Sydney on the Port Bridge, after calling for sanctions to Israel, we only received increasing assistance by the Albanian government, “he says.

“We know that help does not enter Palestine. [What we really want is our government] Sanction of Israel [and to] Protect innocent people’s lives. “

His sisters Jennifer Howse and Andrea McCourtie told this Masthead that they did not participate in a rally until they participated in Palestinian advocacy.

Howse said that he often wondered why he did not protest the wars in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, but he said, “Now I take an attitude”.

McCourtie said it was motivated to add thousands of voices that Israel’s attack on Gaza. “Genocide is only out of control. It should stop.”

A Palestinian man named Sameer prevented the meeting in Queens Gardens and cheered, “Resistance is right when the soil was occupied”.

“What was taken from us, we can only take back back,” he said.

“If someone punches you, you will come back when there is no law to protect you … We have not forgotten and we will not forget. We will not forgive and forgive.”

Keffiyehs, a kind of Middle East scarf symbolizing the pro -Filestin movement, was sold to collect money by various groups, and the conversations were exhausted before they started at 13.00.

As the crowd reached Southern Brisbane, a small group of protesters were greeted.

A man cultural center hung a flag on the bus overpass, made rough gestures to the protesters and shouted from the national anthem. At about 15.15, it was taken by the police.

Speaking with a megaphone, the activist Phil Monsour said to those who came to Musgrave Park: ız You have been in one of the biggest political marches in the history of this city. ”

“We are a small city, we are not Sydney, but we have a great heart.”

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