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{{Short description|English protester and peace campaigner (1949–2011)}}
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| name          = Brian Haw
| image         = Brian Haw sits quietly.jpg
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| caption       = Haw in August 2007
| birth_name    = Brian William Haw
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1949|1|7|df=yes}} 
| birth_place   = [[Wanstead Hospital]], [[Woodford Green]], [[Essex]]<!-- Do not change to London Woodford Green was in Essex in 1949 -->, Britain
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|2011|6|18|1949|1|7|df=yes}} 
| death_place   = [[Berlin]], Germany
| nationality   = British
| known_for     = Activism
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'''Brian William Haw''' (7 January 1949&nbsp;– 18 June 2011) was a British protester and peace campaigner who lived for almost ten years from 2001 in a [[peace camp]] in London's [[Parliament Square]], in a [[protest]] against UK and US foreign policy. He began the [[Parliament Square Peace Campaign]] before the [[September 11 attacks]], and became a symbol of the [[anti-war movement]] over the policies of both the United Kingdom and the United States in [[Afghanistan]] and later [[Iraq]]. At the 2007 [[Channel 4]] Political Awards he was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure. Haw died of cancer in [[Berlin]], where he had been receiving medical treatment.

==Early and personal life==
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Haw was born on 7 January 1949,<ref name="BBC dies">{{cite news|title=Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw dies|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13828800|access-date=19 June 2011|newspaper=BBC Online|date=19 June 2011}}</ref><ref>Jerome Taylor, "3,000 days and counting... The lonely life of Brian", ''The Independent'', 19 August 2009, p. 14.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/world/europe/21haw.html?ref=deathsobituaries|title=Brian Haw, 62, Dies; Camped in Front of Parliament to Protest War|date=21 June 2011|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=Dennis Hevesi}}</ref><ref name=odnb>John Rees, 'Haw, Brian William (1949–2011)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Jan 2015 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/103787 accessed 13 Feb 2015]</ref> in [[Wanstead Hospital]], in [[Woodford Green]], [[Essex]] <!-- Do not change to London Woodford Green was in Essex in 1949 when he was born --><ref>{{cite web |last=Gideon |first=Michael R. |url=http://100gf.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/obituary-anti-war-protester-brian-haw-dies-aged-62-after-battling-lung-cancer/ |title=Obituary: Anti-war protester Brian Haw dies aged 62 after battling lung cancer &#124; 100gf &#124; Politics and Computers |website=100gf.wordpress.com |date=2011-06-19 |access-date=2017-06-15 |archive-date=19 May 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519020658/https://100gf.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/obituary-anti-war-protester-brian-haw-dies-aged-62-after-battling-lung-cancer/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> a twin and the eldest of six.<ref name="Tel obit"/> He grew up in neighbouring [[Barking, London|Barking]] and in [[Whitstable]], Kent.<ref name="Tel obit">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8585399/Brian-Haw.html |title=Brian Haw obituary |website=Telegraph.co.uk |access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref>

His father, Robert William Haw (1925–1964), served as a sniper in the [[Reconnaissance Corps]] in the Second World War, and had been one of the first British soldiers to enter the [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]]. He later worked as a railway clerk,<ref name=odnb/> and also worked in a betting office.{{citation needed|date=February 2015}} He died of suicide when Haw was 13.<ref name="Tel obit"/> Haw's mother was Iris Marie Haw (née Hall).<ref name=odnb/>

Haw's family were involved in an [[evangelical Christian]] church in Whitstable, which Haw joined when he was aged 11.<ref name=odnb/> Haw was apprenticed to a boat-builder from the age of 16 and then entered the [[British Merchant Navy|Merchant Navy]] as a deckhand.<ref name="Express profile">Anna Pukas, "I'm staying I won't let Blair bully me'", ''The Express'', 11 May 2006.</ref> He travelled widely before spending six months at an evangelical college in Nottingham, after which he preached [[world peace]]. Haw visited [[Northern Ireland]] in 1970 during [[The Troubles]], as well as the [[Killing Fields]] of [[Cambodia]] in 1989.<ref name=odnb/>

After returning to London, he worked as a removals man and as a carpenter, and later with youth in [[Redditch]], Worcestershire.<ref name="BBC dies" /><ref name="odnb" /> He married his wife Kay in [[Redbridge, London|Redbridge]] in June 1977.<ref name=odnb/> They lived in [[Redditch]] with their seven children until he left them in 2001 to begin his Parliament Square protest.<ref name="BBC dies"/> The couple divorced in 2003.<ref name="Tel obit"/>

==Parliament Square protests==
[[File:Brian Haw flyer.png|thumb|right|Flyer for Haw's Parliament Square Peace Campaign|alt=A leaflet reading "Parliament Square Peace Campaign / Since 2nd June 2001 / http://www.parliament-square.org.uk / Love - Peace - Justice for All / Brian Haw & Company"]]
[[File:brian-haw.jpg|left|thumb|Haw in September 2005]]
On 2 June 2001, he began camping in [[Parliament Square]] in central London in a one-man [[protest|political protest]] against war and foreign policy (initially, the [[Sanctions against Iraq|Economic sanctions against Iraq]]).<ref name="Tel obit"/> By his own account, he was first inspired to take up his vigil after seeing the images and information produced by the [[Mariam Appeal]], an anti-sanctions campaign. Haw justified his campaign on a need to improve his children's future. He only left his makeshift campsite to attend court hearings, surviving on food brought by supporters. Support for Haw's protest came from former Labour cabinet minister [[Tony Benn]] and activist/comedian [[Mark Thomas]]. Among the artwork displayed was a [[Banksy]] stencil of two soldiers painting over a peace sign and [[Leon Kuhn]]'s anti-war political caricature ''3 Guilty Men'',<ref>{{cite web|title=''3 Guilty Men''|url=http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/andy/qt/ParProtest.html|format=Quicktime|access-date=28 November 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117231553/http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/andy/qt/ParProtest.html|archive-date=17 January 2010}}</ref> which, together with Kuhn's ''The Proud Parents'',<ref name="PD">{{cite web|first=Paisley|last=Dalton|title=Anarchy Goes Etablissement|date=7 January 2008|url=http://www.zeitgeistworld.com/?p=5#respond|publisher=Zeitgeistworld|quote=two infinitely more powerful paintings by celebrated anti-war cartoonist Leon Kuhn- The Proud Parents and 3 Guilty Men|access-date=27 November 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=3 July 2007|title=state britain @ tate britain|publisher=[[Flickr]]|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/thirstyfish/705821521/sizes/o/in/photostream|access-date=28 November 2009}}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Maev|last=Kennedy|date=15 January 2007|title=Welcome to State Britain|work=The Guardian|location=UK|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artblog/2007/jan/15/wallinger|access-date=28 November 2009}}</ref> [[Mark Wallinger]] later displayed in his recreation at the Tate in 2007.<ref name="PD"/>

He originally camped on the grass in Parliament Square, but the [[Greater London Authority]] took legal action to remove him, so he relocated to the pavement, which was administered by Westminster City Council instead.<ref name=odnb/> In October 2002 [[Westminster City Council]] attempted to prosecute Haw for causing an [[:wikt:obstruction|obstruction]] to the pavement, but the case failed as Haw's banners did not impede movement. The continuous use of a [[megaphone]] by Haw led to objections by Members of Parliament who had offices close to Haw's protest camp. The House of Commons Procedure Committee held a brief inquiry in summer 2003 which heard evidence that permanent protests in Parliament Square could provide an opportunity for terrorists to disguise explosive devices, and resulted in a recommendation that the law be changed to prohibit them.<ref>{{cite video|people=[[Chris Atkins (journalist)|Chris Atkins]]|date=8 June 2007|title=Taking Liberties|url=http://www.noliberties.com|medium=DVD|publisher=Revolver Entertainment|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011015712/http://www.noliberties.com/|archive-date=11 October 2007|access-date=19 June 2011|time=19m 02s|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Government passed a provision banning all unlicensed protests, permanent or otherwise, in the [[Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005]] (sections 132 to 138); however, because Haw's protest was on-going and residing on Parliament Square prior to the enactment of the Act, it was unclear whether the Act applied to him.<ref>{{cite news|title=Anti-war campaigner Brian Haw, who camped in Parliament Square for a decade, has died|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8584966/Anti-war-campaigner-Brian-Haw-who-camped-in-Parliament-Square-for-a-decade-has-died.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622051627/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8584966/Anti-war-campaigner-Brian-Haw-who-camped-in-Parliament-Square-for-a-decade-has-died.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 June 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=19 June 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Brian Haw.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Haw in February 2007]]
In the [[2005 United Kingdom general election|2005 general election]] Haw stood as a candidate in the [[Cities of London and Westminster (UK Parliament constituency)|Cities of London and Westminster]] in order to further his campaign and oppose the Act which was yet to come into force. He won 298 votes (0.8 per cent), making a speech against the ongoing presence of UK troops in Iraq at the declaration of the result.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

===Legal action===
[[File:Iraq demo in london.jpg|right|thumb|Brian Haw's [[Parliament Square Peace Campaign]], January 2002]]
As preparation for implementing the new [[Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005]] began, Haw won an application for [[judicial review]] on 28 July 2005, successfully arguing that a technical defect in the act meant it did not apply in his case. The act states that demonstrations must have authorisation from the police "when the demonstration starts", and Haw asserted that his demonstration had begun before the passage of the act, which was not made retrospective. Although the commencement order made to bring the act into force had made reference to demonstrations begun before the act came into force, there was no power for the commencement order to extend the scope of the act.<ref>{{cite ODNB|author=John Rees|title=Haw, Brian William (1949–2011)|date= Jan 2015 |id= 103787|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/103787.html}}</ref>

The government appealed against the judgement, and on 8 May 2006 the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] allowed the appeal and therefore declared that the act did apply to him. The court found that the intent of parliament was clearly to apply to all demonstrations in Parliament Square regardless of when they had begun, saying "The only sensible conclusion to reach in these circumstances is that Parliament intended that those sections of the Act should apply to a demonstration in the designated area, whether it started before or after they came into force. Any other conclusion would be wholly irrational and could fairly be described as manifestly absurd."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2006/532.html |title=Haw, R (on the application of) v Secretary of State for the Home Department & Anor &#91;2006&#93; &#91;EWCA Civ 532&#93; |work=England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Decisions |date=8 May 2006}}</ref>

In the meantime Haw had applied for permission to continue his demonstration, and received it on condition that his display of placards was no more than {{convert|3|m}} wide (among other things). Haw was unwilling to comply and the police referred his case to the [[Crown Prosecution Service]]; a number of supporters began camping with him in order to deter attempts to evict him.

[[File:Abby Jackson. Foreign Policy 2000.jpg|thumb|''Foreign Policy 2000'', a painting by [[Abby Jackson]] – one of the items confiscated by the police]]
In the early hours of 23 May 2006, 78 police arrived and removed all but one of Haw's placards citing continual breached conditions of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 as their reason for doing so.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5007214.stm |title=Anti-war signs seized by police |date=23 May 2006 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Tempest |first=Matthew |date=23 May 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/may/23/iraq.iraq |title=Police seize Parliament Square protester's placards |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London}}</ref> [[Ian Blair]] (head of the Metropolitan Police at the time) later said that the operation to remove Haw's placards had cost £27,000.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/31/politics.iraq|location=London|work=The Guardian|first=Hugh|last=Muir|title=Farce as peace campaigner has another day in court|date=31 May 2006}}</ref> The actions of the police were criticised by members of the [[Metropolitan Police Authority]] at its monthly meeting on 25 May 2006.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Haw appeared at [[Bow Street Magistrates' Court]] on 30 May, when he refused to enter a plea. The court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf, and he was bailed to return to court on 11 July 2006. At a licensing hearing at [[Westminster City Council]] on 30 June 2006, Haw was granted limited permission to use a loudspeaker in the space allowed to him.

[[File:Brian Haw 3 January 2009.jpg|thumb|Haw in Parliament Square, 3 January 2009]]
On 22 January 2007 Haw was acquitted on the grounds that the conditions he was accused of breaching were not sufficiently clear, and that they should have been imposed by a police officer of higher rank. District Judge Purdy ruled: "I find the conditions, drafted as they are, lack clarity and are not workable in their current form."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6287091.stm |title=Parliament protester's legal win |date=22 January 2007 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref> At the 2007 [[Channel 4]] Political Awards Haw was voted Most Inspiring Political Figure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/08/npols108.xml |title=Channel 4 award for Brian Haw |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428092614/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/08/npols108.xml |archive-date=28 April 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==''Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw''==
In the case of ''Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw'', the judgement of the court, delivered by [[Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers|Lord Phillips CJ]], included the following:
{{blockquote|3. The issues raised by the case stated are as follows:{{plainlist|
*i) Whether the statutory powers available to the Commissioner of Police under Section 134 of SOCA can be exercised by a subordinate on his behalf;
*ii) Whether the conditions imposed on Mr Haw were ultra vires, or incompatible with Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights ('ECHR'), as unreasonable or insufficiently clear.<ref name=transcript>{{cite web |url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2007/1931.html |title=Director of Public Prosecutions v Haw |website=Bailii.org |date=6 August 2007}}</ref>}}}}

This was an adjourned hearing of an appeal by way of case stated by the Director of Public Prosecutions against a decision of District Judge Purdy in the City of Westminster Magistrates Court on 22 January 2007. The judge ruled that there was no case for the Respondent, Brian Haw, to answer on a charge of knowingly failing to comply with a condition imposed under Section 134 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 ('SOCA') in respect of a demonstration in Parliament Square. The hearing before the [[High Court of Justice (King's Bench Division)|Administrative Court]] was adjourned because Mr Haw had not been served with relevant documents in time to give them proper consideration.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Haw sought a large number of directions from the court on 18 November 2008. After some delay the directions of the court were eventually published in March 2009:
* ''Haw, R (on the application of) v Southwark Crown Court & Ors'' [2009] EWHC 379 (Admin) (3 March 2009) <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2009/379.html |title=Haw, R (on the application of) v Southwark Crown Court & Ors [2009&#93; EWHC 379 (Admin) (03 March 2009) |website=Bailii.org |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref>
The court was un-persuaded that a full transcript of the hearing<ref name=transcript/> was necessary, even though Haw claimed that it would show that the court sidestepped the issue as to the legality of the seizure.

==''Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions''==
The case of ''Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions'', 2007<ref name="Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions">{{cite web|url=http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2007/3019.html |title=Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions [2007&#93; EWHC 3019 (Admin) (30 November 2007) |website=Bailii.org |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> was an appeal by way of case stated. The appellant, Barbara Tucker, was convicted under [http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=Serious+Organised+Crime+and+Police+Act+2005+&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=2086243&ActiveTextDocId=2086429&filesize=4592 Section 132 (1)(c)] of the [[Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005]] (SOCPA), of being within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court, and carrying on unauthorised demonstration by herself in a public place in a designated area, namely Parliament Square. Her defence was that Haw had invited her to join him in his demonstration. He gave evidence on her behalf to that effect.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

The magistrate said: "Had I accepted this evidence (which I did not) it would have been argued that the allegation that she had 'carried on an unauthorised demonstration by herself ...' could not have been made out, and furthermore (in my view incorrectly) that it would provide a defence by saying that as Mr Haw is safe from prosecution anyone who joins him is also safe." The question posed by the magistrate was: "Was it lawful under section 6 (1) HRA to convict the appellant?" The Administrative Court held that SOCPA was not incompatible with the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] (specifically, Articles 10 (freedom of expression) and 11 (freedom of assembly)), and that Tucker's conviction was therefore lawful.<ref name="Tucker v Director of Public Prosecutions"/>

==January 2008 injury and arrest==
On 12 January 2008, Haw was observing a protest against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act outside [[Downing Street]]. Seven people were arrested including Haw, who said "I was filming the students lying down in the road when one officer stepped forward, as I was walking back, and pushed the camera with his hand. It struck my face." He used "violent and humiliating force".<ref>{{cite news| url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7186606.stm|work=BBC News |title=Peace protester injured in demo|date=14 January 2008|access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref>

==2008 London mayoral elections==
In December 2007 press releases stated that Haw had declared himself a candidate in the [[2008 London mayoral election|London Mayoral Elections]] in May 2008,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388510.html |title=London Mayor 2008 – UK Indymedia |website=Indymedia.org.uk |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> but eventually he did not stand.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.citymayors.com/news/london-elections-08.html |title=London elections May 2008 |publisher=City Mayors |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> On 17 April 2008 he gave his support to the Christian Choice candidate [[Alan Craig]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thechristianchoice.org/?page=news&id=278 |title=London Mayoral Hopefuls Announce Backing for Alan Craig and The Christian Choice |date=17 April 2008 |website=The Christian Choice |access-date=2008-04-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728093028/http://www.thechristianchoice.org/?page=news&id=278 |archive-date=28 July 2011}}</ref>

==25 May 2010 arrest==
On 25 May 2010 the day of the [[State Opening of Parliament]] for the new [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]-[[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] [[Cameron–Clegg coalition|coalition government]], Haw was arrested at 8:30&nbsp;am.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/25/protester-brian-haw-arrested-queens-speech |title=Protester Brian Haw arrested before Queen's Speech|date=25 May 2010 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |access-date=25 May 2010|first=Mark|last=Tran}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8702526.stm|work=BBC News |title=Parliament Square anti-war protester Brian Haw arrested|date=25 May 2010|access-date=25 May 2010}}</ref><!-- has he been charged with any offence in connection with this arrest? -->

==Illness and death==
In September 2010 Haw was diagnosed with [[lung cancer]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://brianhaw.tv/index.php/blog/428-brian-haw-its-the-kidsstupid |title=blog: Brian Haw "It's The Kids...Stupid" |website=Brianhaw.tv |access-date=2017-06-15 |archive-date=12 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812211144/http://brianhaw.tv/index.php/blog/428-brian-haw-its-the-kidsstupid |url-status=dead }}</ref> On 1 January 2011 he left England to receive treatment in Berlin. Haw, who was described as a [[chain smoker]], continued to smoke cigarettes until his death.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.lhrtimes.com/mr-haw-who-camped-for-10-years-in-londons-parliament-square-dies-at-age-62-years.html |title=Mr. Haw who camped for 10 years in London's Parliament Square; dies at age 62 years |first=Nadeem |last=Iftekhar |newspaper=[[The Lahore Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620191535/http://www.lhrtimes.com/mr-haw-who-camped-for-10-years-in-londons-parliament-square-dies-at-age-62-years.html |archive-date=20 June 2011 }}</ref> He died in Germany in the early hours of 18 June 2011 of lung cancer.<ref name="BBC dies" /> He is survived by seven children.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8585399/Brian-Haw.html |title=Brian Haw|work=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 June 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref>

Reacting to news of Haw's death, [[Tony Benn]] said "Brian Haw was a man of principle ... his death marks the end of a historic enterprise by a man who gave everything to support his beliefs".<ref name=benn>{{cite news |title=Brian Haw sacrificed his life for peace |author=Tony Benn |author-link=Tony Benn |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jun/20/brian-haw-death-iraq-war-protester |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 June 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref> At his death [[Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]] described him as an "unsung hero".<ref name="Al-Jazeera">{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/201162081348694801.html|title='Unsung hero' Brian Haw, 1949–2011|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=20 June 2011|access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref> [[Mark Wallinger]] said "I admired [Haw's] single-minded tenacity. His rectitude was a mirror that the people in the building opposite couldn't bear. ... Now that he's gone, who else have we got?".<ref name=wallinger>{{cite news |title=Mark Wallinger on Brian Haw: 'It took a while to earn his trust' |author=Laura Barnett |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jun/20/mark-wallinger-recalls-brian-haw |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 June 2011 |access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref> British artist [[Banksy]] honoured Haw with a tribute on his website.<ref name="M">{{cite web|url=http://londonist.com/2011/06/new-banksy-street-art-mentions-tox.php|title=New Banksy Street Art Mentions Tox|publisher=Londonist|date=28 June 2011|access-date=28 June 2011}}</ref> Banksy had previously described Haw as 'the best inspiration in London' in a hand written dedication to him in a copy of the book ''Wall and Piece''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-22 |title=Banksy book found in Eastbourne charity shop sells for £3,400 |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-67496829 |access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref>

==Memorials==
In 2011 London Assembly Member [[Jenny Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb|Jenny Jones]] called for [[Westminster City Council|Westminster Council]] to erect a [[blue plaque]] for Brian Haw immediately, bypassing [[English Heritage]]'s criteria that the person commemorated should have been dead for two decades or passed the centenary of their birth, whichever is the earlier.<ref name="BBC-Jenny-Jones">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13840989|title=Brian Haw: Blue Plaque call for anti-war campaigner|work=BBC News|date=20 June 2011|access-date=20 June 2011}}</ref> 

In 2018, artist Guy Atkins sited an audio monument to Brian Haw in [[Parliament Square]]. Conceived within the tradition of countermonuments, the audio work - [http://www.andtherewasbrian.uk 'And There Was Brian'] - can only be heard in the Square through the monument's GPS-restricted website, [http://www.andtherewasbrian.uk andtherewasbrian.uk]. The monument gives an account of Brian Haw's protest through the experiences of his longest-serving supporter, actor [[Michael Culver]].

Following Haw's death, the British [[Member of Parliament|MP]] [[John McDonnell (politician)|John McDonnell]] called for a statue of Haw to be erected to celebrate peace.<ref name="Al-Jazeera" /> In 2023 actor Sir [[Mark Rylance]] headed a [[crowdfunding]] campaign to erect a small bronze [[maquette]] on a plinth opposite the big guns of the [[Imperial War Museum]] in Lambeth.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64582898 | title=Brian Haw memorial: Sir Mark Rylance leads campaign | work=BBC News | date=15 February 2023 }}</ref> Paid for by over £25,000 in contributions from more than one thousand people, a {{convert|72|cm|ftin|adj=on}} bronze statue by Amanda Ward was installed at the School of Historical Dress, facing the Imperial War Museum and just outside the 1-mile exclusion zone around the Houses of Parliament. It was unveiled on 16 March 2025.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Luxmy Gopal |author2=Jess Warren |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck |title=Statue of peace campaigner Brian Haw unveiled |website=BBC News |date=17 March 2025 }}</ref>

===Documentaries===
Haw was featured in several documentaries including 2003's "As Long As It Takes" (Raj Yagnik). Haw was briefly portrayed in the 2007 drama ''[[The Trial of Tony Blair]]''.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

Haw was filmed for many months by independent documentary maker Senara Wilson during the buildup to war in 2003. Her film ''Life of Brian'' (produced and edited by Matthew Platts-Mills)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3PaJcjsokQ  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/F3PaJcjsokQ |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live|title='Life of Brian' (short version) |author=Senara Wilson Hodges |orig-year=2004 |date=30 October 2014 |publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2017-06-15}}{{cbignore}}</ref> was selected for the [[Commonwealth Film Festival]].{{cn|date=March 2025}}  

''A Man Called Brian'', a 2005 documentary film by [[Mahmoud Shoolizadeh]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bpmedia.org/shownewsitem.aspx?newsid=30 |title=A review of ''Life of Brian'' |website=Bpmedia.org |access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref> is about Haw and his protest in Parliament Square.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.parliament-square.org.uk |title=Give Peace A Change – 20th Century's Greatest Peace Protester |publisher=Parliament Square |access-date=2017-06-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303023345/http://www.parliament-square.org.uk/ |archive-date=3 March 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Civil Rights Movement">{{cite news|last=Crystal|first=Garry|title=Brian Haw: Icon of the UK Peace Protest Movement|url=http://www.civilrightsmovement.co.uk/brian-haw-icon-uk-peace-protest-movement.html|access-date=17 October 2013|newspaper=Civil Rights Movement|date=15 August 2012}}</ref>

Haw was featured with activist Mick Meaney {{Who|date=January 2016}} in a documentary by British independent news agency [[RINF]], in which for the first time in the media he stated that he believed "[[9/11 truth movement|9/11 was an inside job]]".<ref>{{YouTube|Y-TxWaP2g80}}</ref>

==In culture==
In January 2007, former [[Turner Prize]] nominee [[Mark Wallinger]] recreated Brian Haw's Parliament Square protest in its entirety as an exhibition at [[Tate Britain]], titled [[State Britain]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6264311.stm |title=Entertainment &#124; Anti-war campaigner comes to Tate |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2007-01-15 |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> Running the length of the Duveen Gallery, ''State Britain'' was a painstaking reconstruction of the display confiscated by the Metropolitan Police in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/mark-wallinger-state-britain |title=Mark Wallinger: State Britain – Exhibition at Tate Britain |publisher=Tate |access-date=2017-06-15}}</ref> It included 500 weather-worn banners, photos, peace flags, and messages from well-wishers collected by Haw over the duration of the Peace Protest, as well as his self-constructed shelter. In December 2007 Wallinger's work won the [[Turner Prize]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7124575.stm|work=BBC News|title=Mark Wallinger wins Turner Prize|date=3 December 2007|access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref>

The London-based band [[XX Teens]] recorded a song "For Brian Haw", which was included on their 2008 album ''[[Welcome To Goon Island]]''. The track incorporated a statement by Haw himself about his motivations for the protest.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicomh.com/albums/xx-teens_0708.htm |title=XX Teens - Welcome To Goon Island |website=musicomh.com |access-date=31 August 2010 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604141424/http://www.musicomh.com/albums/xx-teens_0708.htm |archive-date=4 June 2011}}</ref>

Haw was featured in the short length documentary ''Maria: 24hr Peace Picket'' by Iranian film director Parviz Jahed, about fellow peace campaigner Maria Gallastegui.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In 2009, [[Youth Music Theatre UK]] developed the music theatre production ''According to Brian Haw...'' based on reactions by young people to Haw's life, 9/11 and the Iraq war. This was performed at the Barbican Theatre, [[Plymouth]]. This production was again performed in 2012 at Square Chapel Centre for the Arts in Halifax with a new cast of young people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.youthmusictheatreuk.org/shows/according-brian-haw-2012|title=According to Brian Haw (2012) &#124; British Youth Music Theatre|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=22 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722012942/http://www.youthmusictheatreuk.org/shows/according-brian-haw-2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} It was developed from a concept by Eddie Latter, music by James Atherton, book and lyrics by Sarah Nelson, directed by Ellie Jones, movement by Eddie Latter, designed by Hannah Boothman.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAWWIA0sils |title=According to Brian Haw 2012 #124; Youth Music Theatre UK (YMT) |date= 2 January 2013|via=[[YouTube]]}}</ref>

Zia Trench's debut play, ''The State We're In'', based on Haw's life, was performed for the first time at the 2009 [[Edinburgh Fringe]], featuring [[Michael Byrne (actor)|Michael Byrne]] in the lead role and directed by Justin Butcher.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

==See also==
*[[Thomas (activist)|Thomas]], an American anti-nuclear activist who undertook a 27-year peace vigil in front of the [[White House]]
*[[Concepción Picciotto]], a Spanish anti-nuclear activist who undertook a 35-year peace vigil in front of the White House, the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States
*[[List of peace activists]]
*[[Steve Bray]], a [[UK Parliament]] stop [[Brexit]] protestor

== External links ==

* {{web archive|url-status=dead|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227065054/https://www.parliament-square.org.uk/|date=27 December 2008|title=Official website}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{External links|date=June 2017}}
{{Commons category|Brian Haw}}
* [http://brianhaw.tv/ Parliament Square Peace Campaign website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217224502/http://brianhaw.tv/ |date=17 December 2013 }}
* [http://brianhaw.tv/index.php/background/ Background information on the Parliament Square Peace Campaign]
* Brian Haw No Longer Allowed to do Peaceful Protest at Parliament Square [https://web.archive.org/web/20131026040236/http://blythpost.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1428%3Abrian-haw-no-longer-allowed-to-do-peaceful-protest-at-parliament-square&catid=127%3Aeurope&Itemid=548]
* {{YouTube|6h4va-TaRE4|Not the Queen's Speech}}
* Brian Haw: Veteran peace campaigner who occupied Parliament Square for a decade in protest at war (''The Independent'' 20 June 2011) [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/brian-haw-veteran-peace-campaigner-who-occupied-parliament-square-for-a-decade-in-protest-at-war-2299874.html]
* Rebel with a Cause (''The Independent'' 20 June 2011) [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-rebel-with-a-cause-2299957.html]
* Death of Brian Haw prompts rallying to the peace cause (''The Independent'' 20 June 2011) [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/death-of-brian-haw-prompts-rallying-to-the-peace-cause-2299923.html]
* Mark Wallinger: Brian Haw was the conscience of a nation grown quiescent (''The Independent'' 20 June 2011)  [https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mark-wallinger-brian-haw-was-the-conscience-of-a-nation-grown-quiescent-2299924.html]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050526102913/http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2005/50015--l.htm#132 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, sections 132 et seq]
* [http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/policy.php?id=629 List of votes relating to Protesting in Parliament Square] from [[Public Whip]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095029/http://www.dissidentvox.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/21/2516014.html Brian Haw speaking about his 2000 days of protest (45mins approx)] from Dissident Vox
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100117231553/http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/andy/qt/ParProtest.html 3D Panorama of the peace protest (requires QuickTime)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110609035050/http://www.met.police.uk/events/images/Section_132_7_boundary.jpg Metropolitan Police map of the exclusion zone]
* https://www.theguardian.com/antiwar/story/0,,2004876,00.html
* [http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/media/2008/01//389531.wmv Video showing his January 2008 arrest]
* [[:da:Fredsvagten|FredsVagt Christiansborg, the parallel demonstration in Copenhagen, Denmark]]
* [http://rinf.com/alt-news/911-truth/brian-haw-041107/1665/ Video interview – Brian Haw in his own words]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110528053706/http://www.rechargedmagazine.com/currentaffairs.html A tribute to Brian Haw on RechargedMagazine.com (includes 30 minutes of previously unreleased interview footage)]
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