Gambians and friends of The Gambia, the movement for Democracy and Development wish to thank all those who took their time and made it to the demonstration under the rain and as you may know there was uncertainty about whether a transit strike would happen in New York City or not. We also thank all those who couldn't make it but one way or the other contributed to the success of today's demonstration. The protest started at 10:00 AM in the morning in front of the Gambia permanent mission to the UN at 800 2ND Avenue between 42ND and 43rd street. Gambians stormed the area within an hour holding placards with different slogans about the real character and autocratic behavior of Yahya Jammeh and his mercenaries judges. Passers by started interviewing the protesters by taking video of the placards and asking what they can do to bring to an end to the dictatorship in that small country? Telephone numbers and addresses of officials responsible for terrorizing and intimidating innocent Gambians were passed. At 11:30AM, some executivre members of the Organization, Demba Sanyang-the secretary, Lamin Taal-Youth organizer and Saihou Mballow- Chairman with the escort Emran saidy journalist from the Free Gambia Radio walked into the Mission building to deliver a letter to the Ambassador and address our concerns to him but unfortunately we some officials in the office luck up themselves in the office and pretended no one is at work. We kept knocking the door but to no avail. At the end we used our cell phones to call the Embassy number # 212-949-6640 after hearing some murmuring inside and someone talking on the phone eventually they stop receiving calls. We drop a letter and a note for the Ambassador under the door and hope they would respect the office and give us a call because the office does not belong to Jammie but Gambia. We were ready for an appropriate response from any rude official if there were any like the one in DC. At 12: 00PM, we moved to the UN plaza and continued on our displacement of placards and chanting: We want the rubbish charges against the three opposition leaders drop immediately; We want justice for the murder of Deyda Hydara ; we want justice for the murder of our 14 school children; we want justice for the burning of the Independent newspaper; We want the justice department to make the report public about Justice paul's corruption investigation. Finally, we delivered a letter to the office of the Secretary General appealing to him to do something about the human rights violations in The Gambia. See the letter to the UN and the Mission one. Once again we thank you for every thing. Keep up the struggle. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To Search in the Gambia-L archives, go to: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?S1=gambia-l To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] いいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいいい