Manchester Gaza demo and people-powered news map

Updated: 11.33.4th.
Updated: 19.52. 3rd
Updated 17.45.3rd.
Blog posts, video and pictures from today’s Manchester protest about the situation in Gaza are updating rapidly since the earlier posting on this blog.

The BBC reported that 2,000 people took to the streets in Manchester – although there were no reports of the shoe-throwing demonstrations that took place in London outside Downing Street.
The blog, permanentrevolution, claims a bigger crowd and also posts detials of this upcoming event; “There is a meeting of the Gaza Solidarity Committee, the broad coalition which called today’s demo, at the Falafel restaurant in Rusholme 7.00pm Tuesday 6th Feb.”
Blogger Postman Patel, captured a series of pictures of the march progressing up Oxford Road and through to Albert Square – including the one featured here.
And Manchester-based Flickr photographer Jeremy Kerr wasted no time in getting several pages of pictures from the day published which you can see in the slideshow below.

This YouTube video footage shows the large crowd listening to a speech in Albert Square shot by user chcltd.

Pictures from the demo are also being posted at the MEN Flickr pool here.
I shall update these pages with further coverage as it appears – if you blogged the event, please feel free to submit a link below.

* Further afield, the power of social media platforms to report, record and track news from Gaza is being deployed by the news organisation Al Jazeera. This crowd-sourced map of the region with multiple layers has been circualting online this afternoon.
Al Jazeera’s head of new media Mohammed Nanabhay said the mash-up uses the free open source platform Ushahidi to allow contributors to report incidents via mobile, email or web.