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Archive for May, 2008
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It’s over! There were speeches, the counter-protesters made lots of noise and then we all got on our buses and left, safe and sound. That’s it for another year.
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And we’re off… Rainbow flags and umbrellas are everywhere among the assembled marchers, numbering a few hundred.
The atmosphere is good-humoured, loud and celebratory, the groups of counter-demonstrators at either end of the street may be visible and loud, but they’re not raining on our parade.
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It’s 9.30 on Saturday morning, the sun is in the sky and Amnesty International activists from around 30 countries are gathering for Riga Pride 2008. Yellow t-shirts abound at the side of the venue for the march.
The street we’ll be marching on is within a major police cordon, showing how seriously the authorities have taken […]
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Greetings from Riga. It’s Friday morning, the day before the march. The Amnesty International delegations are starting to arrive and preparations for today’s press conference continue.
I’m Donnacha DeLong, Senior Editor of amnesty.org. Last year, I worked on the Riga Pride demo from London. I helped post other people’s writings to the blog from home over […]
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Three days before the march. This morning I came to Mozaika’s office and found one of the volunteers asleep on our cosy large windowsill. It’s a lot of work for a handful of people. By midday tomorrow, we are supposed to turn this office into the Friendship Days Information Centre. At the moment, we […]
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It’s been about a week since we finally found out the exact time and place of the march. It has caused loads of debate in society – I must admit there hasn’t been a day when this wasn’t discussed one way or another in the media. Every morning I read in one of the newspapers […]
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Not that long ago I participated at the conference “Organizing prides in a hostile environment”, which took place back in 2006 and really related to our situation in Riga. One of the main concerns in hostile environments is, of course, security. One can’t underestimate how important it is. People who are coming to our event […]
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Hallelujah! Common sense has won and we have reached a sensible agreement on how to march without having to kick children out of the park. The City Council itself suggested an alternative route that was acceptable for us and seemed not to bother the police too much. While a heated debate was forming between Mozaika […]
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This park ain’t big enough for the both of us…
Published by May 12th, 2008 in Riga Pride 2008. 0 CommentsFinally we have had a meeting with Riga City Council – when we arrived it turned out it wasn’t as low profile as we thought it was going to be for the first meeting this year. There was the managing director of the City Council, all the city council lawyers and representatives from various structures […]
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