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Relatives of all those killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday have appealed for the public to show their support by taking part in a march to the Guildhall to coincide with the release of the Saville Report.
The long-awaited report into the 1972 massacre will be released on Tuesday when the Bloody Sunday families have asked for people to join them at 2.30pm for a short march from the Bloody Sunday monument in Rossville Street to the Guildhall, the original destination of the ill-fated civil rights march.
Tuesday′s march will pass the site of barricade 14 on William Street where a number of those who were murdered on Bloody Sunday were shot dead.
While the march makes its way from Rossville Street to Guildhall Square, representatives from each of the Bloody Sunday families will be reading Lord Saville′s report inside the Guildhall.
At 3.30 pm, when the report will be released to the public, large screens erected in Guildhall Square will broadcast live coverage of British Prime Minister, David Cameron′s speech to the House of Commons on the report.
After his speech, the Bloody Sunday families and those who were wounded on the day will emerge from the Guildhall to give their reaction. Tony Doherty, whose father, Patrick, was murdered on Bloody Sunday, said:
“We would especially like to invite families throughout the North who have also lost loved ones to join us and we would request that everyone fall in behind the Bloody Sunday family members.”
“The original march was stopped from reaching the Guildhall, but on Tuesday we expect to have the truth acknowledged at that same Guildhall.”
The Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee is honoured to host esteemed campaigner for justice and human rights, English Solicitor,Gareth Pierce to deliver this year’s Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture.
Gareth was invited by the weekend committee to deliver this year’s lecture because of her long history of representing those who have been at the receiving end of human rights abuses and miscarriages of justice. Some of the many people she has represented down through the years include: the ‘Birmingham Six’, the ‘Guildford Four’, former Guantanamo Bay internee Moazzam Begg and more recently the family of Jean Charles da Menezes (the young Brazilian man who was shot dead by police officers in the London underground after they wrongly identified him of being a suicide bomber).
The Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee invites all those concerned for justice and human rights everywhere to come to the Guildhall in Derry city for 8pm on Saturday March 20th to here Gareth Pierce deliver this year’s Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture, ‘Set the Truth Free’!
An International Day of action is planned for Saturday 20th March 2010. This page will be updated with more details as they become available.
Location:
Meet at 10:30 am sharp on the side walk in front of the British Consulate of San Francisco
#1 Sansome Street, corner of Sutter Street at Market Street - Down Town San Francisco
(nearest underground station at Montgomery St.)
Time: Picket from 10:30 to 11:00 am
11 am Proceed to Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco by bus or underground
to join the main march protesting the US wars in Iraq & Afghanistan on the 7th anniversary of the US attack on Iraq.
Noon to 1 pm March, then rally with speakers.
The Troops Out Movement has organised a vigil and will be petitioning.
Time: 12-2pm. on Sat 20th March
Location: Victoria Square, Birmingham City Centre
If you can contribute to a weekly event publicising the campaign please assemble at the Museum of Free Derry by 2:00 pm on Saturday.
Martin McGuiness also spoke at the rally at the end of 2010 Commemorative March. Although we haven’t got video of that speech the text is available.
The weekend of Thursday 28th January until Sunday 31st January saw the usual packed schedule of talks, information workshops, panel discussions and cultural events, leading up to the annual march commemorating the events of Bloody Sunday 1972. The programme for this year is still available to download as a PDF file..