Manchester petrol station blockaded in Burma protest & 24th November national day of action vs Total

13.11.2007
Yes­ter­day, up to 20 human rights cam­paign­ers block­ad­ed a TOTAL garage on Oxford Road, Man­ches­ter. This was in protest at Total Oil’s invest­ment in the mil­i­tary regime of Bur­ma.

The activists, many of them stu­dents, block­ad­ed the entrances to the petrol sta­tion suc­cess­ful­ly with the aid of 3 arm tubes. A large ban­ner was dis­played read­ing “Total­ly Out of Order — Fuelling oppres­sion in Bur­ma”. Leaflets were giv­en out result­ing in a num­ber of sup­port­ing com­ments from peo­ple walk­ing past.

a fourth arm tube was used to block­ade the exit of the garage. The protest delayed the entry of a lor­ry deliv­er­ing oil to the garage.

Police attend­ed the protest but had made no attempt to remove those who were locked to each oth­er with arm tubes by the time I left. There was also some main­stream media atten­tion, notably from the Man­ches­ter Evening News.

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Nation­al Day of Action against TOTAL­i­tar­i­an Oil — Sat 24 Nov

For more details, see:
http://www.totaloutofburma.blogspot.com/