Barbara Grace Tucker
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Barbara Grace Tucker is an Australian born peace activist.[1] She is a native of the Melbourne[2] suburb of Glen Waverley and travelled widely before settling in Britain in the early 1980s.
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She joined the London Parliament Square Peace Campaign of Brian Haw in December 2005. This round-the-clock campaign had been initiated by Haw in June 2001 to protest the sanctions against Iraq which had devastated Iraqi society and had, according to UNICEF, killed some 500,000 children.[3] In the seven years or so since Tucker's arrival she has been arrested 47 times–usually on charges of "unauthorised demonstration".[citation needed] In 2008 she served two weeks in prison for breach of police bail,[4] and in 2011 she served a nine-week prison sentence in Holloway Prison.[5]
Since January 2012 she was denied a tent, blankets or sleeping bag and then slept in a chair, until that too was confiscated. Tucker has been treated for exposure and has spent some time on an intravenous drip. In January 2013 Tucker started a hunger strike after protesting in the square for a total of eight years.[6] She and her supporters vowed to continue their demonstration, and did so until later in 2013.[7]
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- ^ "Parliament camp protester to take fight to Europe". BBC UK. 27 April 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "The Aussie peace protester of London". www.australiantimes.co.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Iraq surveys show 'humanitarian emergency'". UNICEF. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Turning a blind eye to authoritarianism". www.morningstaronline.co.uk. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Barbara Grace Tucker". London: The Independent. 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ^ "Parliament Square peace protester stages hunger strike". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ "Peace at last! Final anti-war protesters leave Parliament Square after 12 years". Evening Standard. May 9, 2013. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
Documentaries[]
- Brian & Co. Parliament Square SW1 (by Yumiko Hayakawa)
- Letters from Parliament Square (by Carlos Serrano Azcona)
- Living people
- Australian activists
- Activists from Melbourne