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Gaza DEC appeal veto Birmingham's 'BBC Mailbox' Studio picketed 31st January 09

The BBC claims it cannot show the appeal by the Disasters Emergency Committee because it does not want to compromise its commitment to impartiality" Its head Mark Thomson has neglected to mention his visit to Israel in November 2005, where he held “peace talks” with Ariel Sharon over alleged anti-Israeli bias in the BBC. or his Jewish wife Jane Blumberg is a Zionist,

Mukhtar reading a poem

Younger students

Some of the crowd listening to the speeches

Another shot of the crowd listening to the speeches

Football scarf

Football Jersey

Some of the speakers

From the Mailbox - Camera pan of the right hand side of crowd

Younger students

About one hundred and fifty people (a good number of them students) picketed the BBC Mailbox in Birmingham on Saturday Besides the usual smattering of 'political suspects' many students articulated their thoughts on the matter from the PA provided by the organizers A letter of protest was handed into BBC Management The effectiveness of its writ and purpose was lost on me! Though we were told one of the Senior Managers had come out and was standing behind the speaker Might have been better if the BBC Mailbox staff had come out on strike But "what’s the chance’s of that happening mmm"

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Stalingrad O'Neill

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Welcome to Birmingham: a city stifled by Lightning Conductors

04.02.2009 11:22

Yet another symbolic and ineffective protest, staged in order to promote this city's political opportunists.

Meanwhile in the rest of the country, people took effective direct action and occupied their corporate media outlets and even projected the Gaza appeal onto bbc broadcasting house offices.

BBC offices occupied in Manchester - v.brief early report -