Are you old?
Do your joints creak a bit?
Hard to hear your children?
What did I do yesterday?
Now is our time
“We are safer than the youngsters”
Elderly arrested for opposing genocide
I’ve never been arrested before, so I’m quite nervous actually.
I think it’s important for old people to get off their backs. I’m not scared of being arrested, I won’t lose a job over it. We are safer than the youngsters.
Two million people are starving and our government are doing nothing about it, and are complicit.
Ages of those arrested on Lift the Ban protest in Parliament Square, August 9th
We don’t stop being activists because we get old;
We get old because we stop being activists.
Paraphrasing George Bernard Shaw
Just because we are old it doesn’t mean we cannot see, hear, feel or act. Many of us have been active since since Israel started the brutal War on Gaza began.
The Government has recently introduce a law proscribing Palestine Action. Older people have been prominent in the campaign against the ban.
Old people and Lift The Ban Campaign
Ever since Palestine Action has been banned for direct action in opposing genocide, Defend Our…
One person’s protest
This account if from an elderly person who joined the silent demonstrators on Parliament Square…
The elderly in Belmarsh High Security Prison
The threatened influx of old people into the high security prison in His Majesty’s Prison…
Pensioners for Palestine started in Camden when Israel began it’s the War on Gaza in October 2023.
Kentish Town > 18th October, 2023
Kentish Town > 4th November, 2023
Camden Town > 20th October, 2023
At the end of Keir Starmer’s Road, Kentish Town > Nov 2023
