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Gaza Vigil Songsheet

May 30, 2025 by Penny Stone

Since Octo­ber 2023 we have been singing a week­ly vig­il for a cease­fire, and for an end to the occu­pa­tion of Pales­tine. We also col­lect mon­ey for Med­ical Aid for Pales­tini­ans. We sing from 12–1pm on Fri­days out­side St. Giles Cathe­dral on the Roy­al Mile in Edin­burgh. All are wel­come to join us. … Read more

Grenfell Tower commemoration

January 12, 2023 by Chris Pearson

Ear­ly evening on the 14th of June 2018 200 peo­ple gath­ered at the Mound precinct in Edin­burgh to join with oth­ers through­out the UK to mark the first anniver­sary of the Gren­fell fire. Large pic­tures of each of the vic­tims of that tragedy were held by peo­ple lin­ing Princes Street … Read more

Events we are supporting this session (to date!)

September 1, 2017 by Hilery

Future Events 7th Octo­ber: Edin­burgh Trades Coun­cil 1.30–2pm 11th Novem­ber Remem­brance Day 9th Decem­ber CAAT: Cam­paign Against the Arms Trade

Events we participated in over the past year

September 1, 2017 by Hilery

17th June:  Wom­en’s Inter­na­tion­al League for Peace and Free­dom  at the Mound 23–25th June : Street Choirs in Leices­ter 29th June: North Edin­burgh women singing at the City Cham­bers to protest ben­e­fit cuts 1st July: React Ceilidh to sup­port refugees 8th July: Faslane demon­stra­tion 30th July:  Jazz sto­ries from Pales­tine … Read more

March on Washington Solidarity Rally

January 16, 2017 by Hilery

Sat­ur­day 21st Jan­u­ary, 10.00 sharp, PIH ses­sion begins at QMH. At 11.00 we will leave for the Amer­i­can Con­sulate on Regent Ter­race, aim­ing to be there by 11.30 to sing at the ‘March on Wash­ing­ton’ Sol­i­dar­i­ty Ral­ly; resist­ing dis­crim­i­na­tion and defend­ing those mar­gin­alised by the new Trump admin­is­tra­tion. (See https:/www.womensmarch.com/mission/) … Read more

Bhopal commemoration

December 20, 2016 by Hilery

Bhopal com­mem­o­ra­tion 2016 On 3rd Decem­ber 2016, peo­ple gath­ered in Edin­burgh to stand in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the peo­ple of Bhopal on the 32nd anniver­sary of the gas dis­as­ter. Wreaths and can­dles were placed beneath the Bhopal memo­r­i­al plaque in Greyfri­ar’s Kirk­yard. Songs were sung by Edin­burgh’s rad­i­cal choir, Protest in Har­mo­ny, and … Read more

More street singing

July 11, 2016 by Hilery

Protest in Har­mo­ny singing ‘Refugees are Wel­come here’ at the Scot­tish Green Par­ty event out­side Par­lia­ment in June to show sup­port for stay­ing in EU just before the Par­lia­men­tary debate. Some of us were able to be at the vig­il on June 15th for the peo­ple whose lives were tak­en … Read more

Street Choirs Festival, Leicester, 2016

July 11, 2016 by Hilery

  What a won­der­ful time we had in Leices­ter for the week­end of the Street Choirs Fes­ti­val. 30 choirs, the vast major­i­ty being polit­i­cal­ly engaged, gath­ered for a fab­u­lous con­cert giv­en by local musi­cians and come­di­ans, a great massed sing in Jubileee Square, busk­ing on the streets (includ­ing lusty singing … Read more

International Workers Memorial Day 2016

July 11, 2016 by Hilery

28 April, Inter­na­tion­al Work­ers Memo­r­i­al Day, is a day to remem­ber those who have died through work to pledge our ongo­ing com­mit­ment to improv­ing work­ing con­di­tions around the world. As it does every year, Protest in Har­mo­ny played an impor­tant part in Edinburgh’s 2016 com­mem­o­ra­tion. We sang before and after … Read more

May Day 2016

July 11, 2016 by Hilery

Mem­bers of Protest in Har­mo­ny added their voic­es to the 2016 Edin­burgh May Day march and ral­ly. 2016 May Day was cel­e­brat­ed on Sat­ur­day, 7 May and cel­e­brat­ed work­ers’ rights, human rights and the life of James Con­nol­ly. One of our song­lead­ers, Pen­ny Stone, sang at the ral­ly with mem­bers … Read more