Saturday, October 25, 2008

Protest and flag burned in Iceland

Today there was a protest march in Reykjavik - Iceland.
They where protesting the central bank and the goverment in Iceland.
a few made speaches - and one of them - was the former Foreign Secretary and ambassador to USA ,mr: Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson.
When the protest was ending - some burned a flag - the flag of one of the banks - Landsbanki.
You can see in the end of the video - the burning of the flag

Click on the photos - and you will see them in full size






Today there was a protest march in Reykjavik - Iceland.
They where protesting the central bank and the goverment in Iceland.
a few made speaches - and one of them - was the former Foreign Secretary and ambassador to USA ,mr: Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson.
When the protest was ending - some burned a flag - the flag of one of the banks - Landsbanki.
You can see in the end of the video - the burning of the flag

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting posts with photos and videos about the demostrations. I hope there will be a demonstration next saturday to.

    I believe you should try write about these events for www.indymedia.org Otherwise the indormation internationally is the one provided by reuters, bbc etc The blog is important but you to search for blogs. Indymedia is different

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  2. Hello, thanks for your comment on my blog post about the petition. That 'off with their heads' photo is a bit scary... I hope this all calms down. :-) I agree with Michalis - it's sometimes hard to find good reporting from 'established' media, so blogs like yours can be very important.
    From a UK teacher.

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