I shot a few videos with my new camcorder at the rally for Palestine yesterday. Besides wanting to do this for its own sake as the first serious usage of my new toy, I decided I had to counter the images the media and certain blogs will give out of the rally. It was reported that it turned violent later on in the evening (I left around sunset), something I had been warned about, but the bit I participated in was overwhelmingly calm and good-natured, and the “anti-semitic” banners (actually, it wasn’t anti-semitism as such but such things as Israeli flags with swastikas in them) were a small minority. More later, insha Allah. Videos are over the fold, or you can view them here, here and here.
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AS`A wR wB bro,
I covered the whole day live on Twitter. I’ve just posted on the day at Suspect Paki too. Thanks for the videos, they will complement my Flickr photo set nicely!
Your impressions seem to be similar to mine.
BTW - I’ll be doing a post on the Qadianis and Palestine soon. Masroor, their so called “khalifa” called Hamas criminals and their cult group in Kababeer accepted Shimon Peres as an “honoured guest” to an iftari last year too…
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Yeah, videos! Keep ‘em coming, they’re great (especially after you fixed the shakiness problem.)
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum, I didn’t so much fix it as it just stopped. I suspect it may have been the snow, or just the camera finding nothing to focus on.
My hands were shaking a lot of the time too! Even with the gloves on… it was just very, very, VERY cold! I could have done with a tripod. :)
assalamu alaikum, I was looking for photos that showed the huge numbers at the march, the gazaprotest.org site was pretty disappointing in that respect. Didn’t anyone on stage take photos, considering they kept telling us how amazing the view was? I really want a photo with a bit of ‘wow factor’, if anyone’s got one or has seen one and can provide a link. Your video of the people starting out on the march is great, you really get a sense of the overwhelming number of people who wanted to show their solidarity with the people of Gaza.