Brian Haw (7 January 1949 - 18 June 2011) a British carpenter (Protestant Christian) protested continuously at London's Parliament Square, starting on 2nd June 2001 peace campaigning (to save lives prior to September 11th), for nearly ten years to 2010. This evidence clearly shows the public has awareness of atrocious policies committed before 9/11, such as the extreme sanctions against Iraq killing half a million children according to UNICEF in 1999. Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) was appalled at UNICEF conclusion, which can only be seen as part of the tenacious attempts to cover the appalling crimes committed against the Iraqi civilian population under the sanctions regime. The consequences of the sanctions and subsequent acts of aggression against innocent people of Iraq continue to reverberate in the ravaged country with brute force. At the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards "Brian Haw was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure". Haw only left his Parliment campsite to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by family and supporters. Haw originally camped on the grass in Parliament Square, but under Blair's leadership the Greater London Authority took legal action to move Brian Haw, to the cold pavement edge of surrounding busy traffic of cars, lorries and buses circling the ringroad. In the early hours of 23rd May 2006, 78 police removed all but one of Haw's placards citing breached conditions of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Barbara Tucker joined Brian Haw in December 2005 till May 2013 (7 years and 5 months of protesting). Both had been assulted many times by members of the public which police would not use CCTV footage for them. Tucker has been arrested 47 times-usually on charges of "unauthorised demonstration". In 2008 Tucker served two weeks in prison for breach of police bail and in 2011 she served a nine-week prison sentence in Holloway Prison. Barbara Tucker was denied a tent, blankets, or sleeping bag since January 2012, instead sleeping in a chair until that, too, was taken away.
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Meeting Brian Haw family members : Kay Haw (married in Redbridge, Worcestershire, England June 1977 - 2003) Barking, Essex. Separation: They divorced in 2003, roughly a year and a half after Brian Haw began his permanent camp, had seven children
Father Robert William Haw (1925–1964) : There were no gas chambers at Bergen-Belsen
Haw visited Northern Ireland in 1970 during The Troubles, as well as the Killing Fields of Cambodia in 1989
Married his wife Kay in Redbridge in June 1977, they lived in Redditch with their seven children until he left them in 2001 to begin his Parliament Square protest
Inspired to take up his vigil after seeing the images and information produced by the Mariam Appeal, an anti-sanctions campaign
Starting Parliament Square protest against Economic sanctions against Iraq
Depleted Uranium as weapon of war, with side effects displayed
9/11 occured after Brian Haw began protesting (raising awarenss) to injustice of foreign policy
Moved protest site off soft grass to cold pavement
Largest protest in UK history occurs in 15th February 2003
British Politicians resiging, Robin Cook, etc
Show every arrest, legal action and appeal by Brian Haw and Barbara Tucker
Wikileaks 'Collateral murder' in Iraq
Torture in Iraq
Round after round of follow up Stop the War protests
Diagnosis September 2010 of lung cancer to death in Berlin
Weaponising Anti-Semitism brought down Jeremy Corbyn
Tony Benn "Brian Haw was a man of principle ... his death marks the end of a historic enterprise by a man who gave everything to support his beliefs"
Al Jazeera "unsung hero"
Mark Wallinger English artist "I admired [Haw's] single-minded tenacity. His rectitude was a mirror that the people in the building opposite couldn't bear. ... Now that he's gone, who else have we got?"
Banksy quote from book Wall and Piece "the best inspiration in London"
anonymous "the society that we live in is usually not based on who we are as human beings, but on who we are as citizens. Constantly being reduced to the level of a citizen is a manner of dehumanising us. We need to rehumanize ourselves to restore human qualities, dignity, or individuality to people or groups who have been dehumanised, treated as objects, or marginalised"