Create a Shireen Abu Akleh Place in Camden.
The Issue
"This would be a real stand for equality and human rights in a mean world where some people are allowed to count more than others."
(1) We are calling on Camden Council to name a public space after Shireen Abu Akleh to commemorate the Al Jazeera TV reporter killed in cold blood by the Israeli army in summer 2022. She was one of over 200 Palestinians killed with impunity by the Israeli army in 2022, and one of dozens of journalists killed since 2000 and of thousands of ordinary people over the years. To remember her and the pain of her family and community is to remember all of them.
This is a call for free speech, equality and human rights.
(2) We are suggesting that the area at the junction of Kentish Town and Leighton Roads NW5 be called Shireen Abu Akleh Place. For many years now, local people have held demonstrations in this area for human rights in Palestine.
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Below is a letter making this suggestion written to the Camden New Journal in October 2022.
I read in your paper that Camden Council are to name the intersection near Swains Lane after a Russian human rights activist, and remember that the road that housed the Anti-Apartheid Movement was renamed after Nelson Mandela.
May I suggest that an area of Camden be named after Shireen Abu Aqleh, the most famous of the Palestinian journalists to be murdered while doing her job reporting honestly on behalf of the many thousands (sadly I am not exaggerating) of Palestinians killed with impunity by the Israeli military? This would be a real stand for equality and human rights in a mean world where some people are allowed to count more than others.
There are often small demos calling for human rights in Palestine at the canopy area of Kentish Town (at the intersection of Kentish Town and Leighton Roads). On behalf of CADFA, the locally-based human rights charity that has made really special links between Camden and Abu Dis in Palestine for nearly 20 years now, I would love to see an Abu Dis Square in Camden ... but in parallel with the Council's current efforts in Highgate, calling an area after a notable individual to call for human rights, I would like to suggest that that Kentish Town area be renamed Shireen Abu Aqleh Square.
(on behalf of) CADFA.org
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The Issue
"This would be a real stand for equality and human rights in a mean world where some people are allowed to count more than others."
(1) We are calling on Camden Council to name a public space after Shireen Abu Akleh to commemorate the Al Jazeera TV reporter killed in cold blood by the Israeli army in summer 2022. She was one of over 200 Palestinians killed with impunity by the Israeli army in 2022, and one of dozens of journalists killed since 2000 and of thousands of ordinary people over the years. To remember her and the pain of her family and community is to remember all of them.
This is a call for free speech, equality and human rights.
(2) We are suggesting that the area at the junction of Kentish Town and Leighton Roads NW5 be called Shireen Abu Akleh Place. For many years now, local people have held demonstrations in this area for human rights in Palestine.
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Below is a letter making this suggestion written to the Camden New Journal in October 2022.
I read in your paper that Camden Council are to name the intersection near Swains Lane after a Russian human rights activist, and remember that the road that housed the Anti-Apartheid Movement was renamed after Nelson Mandela.
May I suggest that an area of Camden be named after Shireen Abu Aqleh, the most famous of the Palestinian journalists to be murdered while doing her job reporting honestly on behalf of the many thousands (sadly I am not exaggerating) of Palestinians killed with impunity by the Israeli military? This would be a real stand for equality and human rights in a mean world where some people are allowed to count more than others.
There are often small demos calling for human rights in Palestine at the canopy area of Kentish Town (at the intersection of Kentish Town and Leighton Roads). On behalf of CADFA, the locally-based human rights charity that has made really special links between Camden and Abu Dis in Palestine for nearly 20 years now, I would love to see an Abu Dis Square in Camden ... but in parallel with the Council's current efforts in Highgate, calling an area after a notable individual to call for human rights, I would like to suggest that that Kentish Town area be renamed Shireen Abu Aqleh Square.
(on behalf of) CADFA.org
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Petition created on 14 January 2023