Brian Haw & Barbara Tucker on Edge Media TV: 'Peace Campaigners' (Full Length)

Brian Haw and Barbara Tucker interviewed by Theo Chalmers. Brian William Haw (1949-2011), was an English protestor and peace campaigner who lived in a camp in London's Parliament Square from 2001, in a protest against UK and US foreign policy. Although he had begun his protest before the 2001 United States attacks, Haw became a symbol of the anti-war movement over the policies of both Britain and the United States in Afghanistan and later Iraq. He was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure at the 2007 Channel 4 Political Awards On 2 June 2001, he began camping in Parliament Square in central London in a one-man political protest against war and foreign policy (initially, the sanctions against Iraq). By his own account, he was first inspired to take up his vigil after seeing the images and information produced by the Mariam Appeal, an anti-sanctions campaign. Haw justified his campaign on a need to improve his children's future. He only left his makeshift campsite in order to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by supporters. Support for Haw's protest came from former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn and activist/comedian Mark Thomas. Among the artwork displayed was a Banksy stencil of two soldiers painting a peace sign and Leon Kuhn's anti-war political caricature 3 Guilty Men, which, together with Kuhn's The Proud parents, Mark Wallinger later displayed in his recreation at the Tate in 2007 Brian Haw was featured in the 2006 documentary, TerrorStorm <b>...</b>
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Brian Haw & Barbara Tucker on Edge Media TV: 'Peace Campaigners' (Full Length)