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June 1984 Remembrance March & Freedom Rally In Central London - Update


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Sunday 9 June 2013

Assemble from 11am at Temple Place (near Temple tube station)

March through London (Strand, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parliament Square) and finish with rally next to UK Parliament

Organised by the Federation of Sikh Organisations (FSO) & Gurdwaras


Contact your local Gurdwara about transport arrangements for Sangat to arrive between 11am and 12 noon

(Coach drop off point (11am): Victoria Embankment near Temple tube station WC2R 2PH)

(Coach pick up point (5pm): Victoria Embankment near Westminster tube station SW1A 2JH)

For further information ring 07938 633554 or 07968 335588

Also visit: https://www.facebook.com/SikhFederationUK

For route of the Remembrance March use: http://binged.it/18eJoKx

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Wow. :respect: The days of Indian rule in Punjab are surely numbered. 29 years. Each and every year the numbers just get bigger and bigger. Don't know how many were there today.....some put the figure at 80,000. 80,000 Sikhs united in openly calling for Khalistan. Its the first time I'd seen this. It used to be that there were just a handful of older men calling for Khalistan, with most worried about being denied an Indian visa oif they did so openly. But today, virtually every man, woman and child was united in Khalistan. You gotta hand it to the UK sangat. Other countries get 100,000 for nagar kirtans but even then these are organised as fun events with music and dance. What we had today was 80,000 people in unison shouting for Khalistan. Amazing :respect:

yes so good to see so many people together, youngsters too so little kids with so much knowledge.

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Year by year it gets bigger thats the thing with Sikh morcha's they dont get smaller like most people's protests....the Sikhs are unique in this.

And the thing is if we keep educating the youth, if we keep using brain instead of braun we will manage to achieve our goal of Khalistan and out of the enslavement of hindutva extremists in india. If we spread the respect and love for each other as 1 family we will fight as 1 family. The enemies of Sikhism namely the indian brahimwad establishment and paki islamo-fascists doesnt want that.... they want your attention diverted into petty secterian and jathabandi matters.

We are in a war, and we are the soldiers of waheguru in this war...only few instances in life is this war physical but mostly its intellectual and spiritual war against enemies of Sikhism.... a war we must and will succeed in if waheguru wills it.

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Police at the end confirmed numbers were 15-20% higher than last year. Route was quite good. Good to see Panj Pyare at Whitehall, 10 Downing Street, Houses of Parliament etc. Would be great if some could post photographs.

Last year the police said numbers were up by 30% on the previous year.

The turnout was amazing - considering event was organised late (last 2/3 weeks), Sikh Channel did very little to promote the event.

Could have had many more banners and placards, more megaphones needed and those to make speeches on route to tell non-Sikhs what was happening and what we were remembering. Entrance to stage should have been better controlled and more co-ordinated speeches in English.

Meeting to take place in early July to plan for 30th anniversary. Everyone should start to think of ideas to make start (hopefully in Hyde Park), march (through London) and freedom rally at the end a huge success.

Generator caught fire at the start of the rally in the Millbank. This meant the first hour was lost with no sound system. Some Singhs improvised and got generator and sound working.

Just to let the Sangat know - Manvir Singh (from Slough) who had hired and transported the generator asked those at 10 Downing Street (Kesri Lehar group) if their generator could be used - they flatly refused!

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