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  • March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     OP - September 17, 2011, 12:53 AM
    Care about freedom of religion and belief, equal rights for women and LGBT people, inclusive schools and one law for all regardless of ethnicity, religion or gender? Fancy a joyful march through London today (Saturday)? Then come join the March for a Secular Europe!

    We're meeting at 10.30 am at Temple Place (Victoria Embankment), the march starts at 11:30 am and the rally opposite Downing Street is from 12:30 until 14:30. Come down, see what's going on and maybe come say hello Smiley

    http://secular-europe-campaign.org/march-rally/

    p.s. I'm liking this new activism board Smiley
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #1 - September 18, 2011, 12:21 AM
    Well that was fun! Smiley The weather (god) was on side throughout for a suntastic march through London to Downing Street, calling for a secular Europe and, hell, a secular world! What a wonderful show of support from secularists from across Europe who came from across the continent to get their message heard. Later, during an orangemen marched, it pissed it down Smiley. Lots of chanting (and a little bit of post rally drinking) has wrecked my throat for the foreseeable future, but it was most definitely worth it.

    It was great to see CEMBers there: Fariborz Pooya, Maryam Namazie, Loki, Chinadoll, Pariah and others whose usernames I'm not sure of. For anyone else who could have made it but didn't: if you folks want the issues of ex-Muslims to be pushed up the secularist and humanist agenda, never mind those of wider society, these are the sort of events you need to make your presence known and felt at. The world is not going to come to this forum, so try harder next time!! Thanks to everyone who came...see you all at the next one Smiley.
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  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #2 - September 18, 2011, 11:05 AM
    There are some excellent photos of yesterday's London for a Secular Europe march and rally below.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalsecularsociety/sets/72157627694710072/show/

    http://www.demotix.com/news/835146/london-march-secular-europe

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/zefrog/6155911672/in/set-72157627689888258/
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #3 - September 18, 2011, 02:03 PM
    Awesome pics, Chris. Afro
    Sounds like it was a great march.
    I love all the different witty slogans.
    "Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so." -- Bertrand Russell

    Baloney Detection Kit
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #4 - September 18, 2011, 02:29 PM
     I had a lovely time , the rallies were just so inspirational I really want to get involved now ! And I spoke too Maryam too she is so nice !( yes I know I'm a groupie lol) , most of all I found out Chris is not as sane as I thought he was Cheesy . 
    "its fashionable to be an ex Muslim these days"
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #5 - September 18, 2011, 02:52 PM
    Any ideas of the amount of people who turned up?
    I make it rain - apparently?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_I19_mKkU&list=SP1665576E7498BAB7&index=2&feature=plcp
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #6 - September 18, 2011, 03:07 PM
    ^I'm not too sure, but I don't think it could have been much over a thousand at most. Quite a few people came to the march but not rally, or vice versa, or they came by to hang out after the rally finished. Where are you based Nilly...UK or further afield?
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #7 - September 18, 2011, 03:13 PM
    I'm from Birmingham... lol. Yeah I'm a lazy bum, i know.
    I make it rain - apparently?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_I19_mKkU&list=SP1665576E7498BAB7&index=2&feature=plcp
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #8 - September 18, 2011, 03:20 PM
    Quote from: chris on September 18, 2011, 12:21 AM
    Well that was fun! Smiley The weather (god) was on side throughout for a suntastic march through London to Downing Street, calling for a secular Europe and, hell, a secular world! What a wonderful show of support from secularists from across Europe who came from across the continent to get their message heard. Later, during an orangemen marched, it pissed it down Smiley. Lots of chanting (and a little bit of post rally drinking) has wrecked my throat for the foreseeable future, but it was most definitely worth it.

    It was great to see CEMBers there: Fariborz Pooya, Maryam Namazie, Loki, Chinadoll, Pariah and others whose usernames I'm not sure of. For anyone else who could have made it but didn't: if you folks want the issues of ex-Muslims to be pushed up the secularist and humanist agenda, never mind those of wider society, these are the sort of events you need to make your presence known and felt at. The world is not going to come to this forum, so try harder next time!! Thanks to everyone who came...see you all at the next one Smiley.

    who came on the face of the girl next to maryam namazie in the last pic
    Quote from: King Tut on December 09, 2012, 06:28 PM
    Yeah an I am super ugly, I can't even beat my chest am too skinny and when I roaaar to attract women, they laugh at me, because it sounds like a girl screaming. I can't even attract any bitches!  Cry

  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #9 - September 18, 2011, 03:44 PM
    What an awesome march and rally! There some fantastic speeches at the rally, some very moving, especially by Maryam Namazie and Sue Cox. The post-rally drinks were lovely too, great to see some cembers there and meet other atheists. Smiley

    Hopefully next year there will be an even better turn out - come out lazy peeps!!!

    'The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising everytime you fall'
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #10 - September 18, 2011, 03:46 PM
    Quote from: ChinaDoll on September 18, 2011, 02:29 PM
    I had a lovely time , the rallies were just so inspirational I really want to get involved now ! And I spoke too Maryam too she is so nice !( yes I know I'm a groupie lol) , most of all I found out Chris is not as sane as I thought he was Cheesy . 


    You were adorable as always.  Kiss

    As for Chris, that dude is far far from sane. Tongue
    'The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising everytime you fall'
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #11 - September 18, 2011, 04:30 PM
    ^Has the mask slipped??
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #12 - September 18, 2011, 04:41 PM
     Afro
    fuck you
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #13 - September 18, 2011, 10:37 PM
    "Don't pray in my schools, and I won't think in your church"
    was my fav shirt. :> someone wore in the pictures
    ***~Church is where bad people go to hide~***
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #14 - September 18, 2011, 10:39 PM
     Cheesy Nice shirt.
    Devious, treacherous, murderous, neanderthal, sub-human of the West. bunny
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #15 - September 19, 2011, 09:51 AM
    Is this a picture of the event? If so, I don't see any sign of the organizations "Hijabis against Sharia" or "Secular Burqa wearers against the imposition of Burqas on unwilling wearers". Weren't they present?:

    The mosque: the most epic display of collective douchbaggery, arrogance and delusion
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #16 - September 19, 2011, 10:41 AM
    That's an anti-Pope march, specifically.

    Good stuff, chris. Do you know when the next one is being held?
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #17 - September 19, 2011, 11:13 AM
    Ferrero, there are plans to make this and the National Secular Society's Conference on Secularism (held the weekend prior) an annual event, so next summer at some point. One of the groups present were Survivor's Voice. They are victims of clerical child abuse who have come out to push for justice and to support others in similar situations. They are having a party on the 29th October, in Rome Smiley. If anyone wants to go, let me know.

    http://www.survivorsvoice.org/
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #18 - September 19, 2011, 12:19 PM
    Hold on everyone is going to fuckin party in Rome !!! finmad finmad finmad finmad finmad finmad :( :( :(
    "its fashionable to be an ex Muslim these days"
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #19 - September 19, 2011, 12:57 PM
    ^Girls with chocolate on their face can't come!
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #20 - September 19, 2011, 01:14 PM
    :( I don't want to be part of you humanist white power group anyway  Cry
    "its fashionable to be an ex Muslim these days"
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #21 - September 19, 2011, 01:49 PM
    I'm gonna go to this. Chris are you going? I think I can persuade Loki to come. :-D

    China, come as well!
    'The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising everytime you fall'
  • Re: March and Rally for a Secular Europe - TODAY (Saturday 17th Sept) in London!!!
     Reply #22 - September 20, 2011, 02:41 AM
    Pariah, whilst you might have a lesser cocoa content than ChinaDoll...there is still, frankly, chocolate all over your face. I've discussed the option of coating ChinaDoll with white emulsion in the hope that it might give her an air of respectability, although frankly I think her chocolaty nature might still show through.

    Anyway, back to the music...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mn55hu1hY&feature=related
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