The Metropolitan Police invited Rebecca Lush Blum - who organised the 'Turn your back on Thatcher' protest in 2013 - to attend a seminar to discuss police liaison with protesters. She refused in this powerful letter ...
… Protestors have nothing to gain from liaising … Lush Blum | 2nd February 2014 Comment UK Protest Police Politics thatcher-funeral.png … organised the 'Turn your back on Thatcher' protest in 2013 - to attend a seminar to …
The months-old protest at Preston New Road, Lancashire, is no longer just about fracking, writes Mat Hope. This dispute is now about London versus the North. It is about the government failing 'the people' from which it has become detached. It is about people sensing hopelessness and helplessness and trying to find a means to resist. And it is about holding on, steadfast, in spite of it all, knowing this is the forgotten frontline of a far greater struggle.
… Hope DeSmog.uk | 8th May 2017 News Fracking Protest England UK Corporations Fossil Fuels … and police close up-cut.jpg The months-old protest at Preston New Road, Lancashire, is no … of road goes unnoticed by Nick and his fellow protesters: how the fence has been extended, …
Extinction Rebellion represents the emergence of large-scale direct action - but can it drive political change?
… Extinction Rebellion Fracking Cliamte Change Protest UK Globalisation London … Extinction Rebellion coordinated a series of protests this autumn in London, causing … down major roads and junctions with walking protests and sit-ins. Activists chained …
An internal police document has confirmed what many have long suspected: the Police Liaison Officers 'facilitating' protests and demonstrations are not just there to make friends - they play a 'pivotal role' in intelligence gathering.
… | 18th June 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Protest UK Police blue-bibs-cut.jpg An … the Police Liaison Officers 'facilitating' protests and demonstrations are not just there … the policing of last year's anti-fracking protests in Balcombe in Sussex carried out by …
Protestors who closed down the coal mine on climate change denier Matt Ridley's estate faced a claim of £100,000 in losses, writes Brendan Montague. But a judge cut that down by over 90% while declaring the eight defendants of 'impeccable character'.
… Ridley coal mine hit with £100,000 climate protest bill Brendan Montague DeSmog.uk | 20th December 2015 News Coal Protest Climate Change UK Law end-coal-fluor-cut.jpg Protestors who closed down the coal mine on …
Donnachadh McCarthy, The Ecologist's correspondent at Occupy Democracy was arrested yesterday when police cleared Parliament Square of protesters. The brutal repression of peaceful protest puts Britain in the same moral camp as China, Russia and others whose human rights record we publicly despise, writes Julian Sayarer.
… when police cleared Parliament Square of protesters. The brutal repression of peaceful protest puts Britain in the same moral camp as … unsurprisingly, people are reluctant to protest where assembling in the name of …
A major demonstration will take place in November to demand an end to the killing on Britain's roads, both direct and indirect, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. And now is the time to sign up, get involved, and build up the momentum for desperately needed change.
… intolerable in a civilised country. We must protest! A major protest and mega Die-In is being organised on … 10 Demands for action by the government. The protest is being organised by the Stop the …
Donnachadh McCarthy is facing 14 years in prison for his peaceful demands for democratic reform in Parliament Square, following his arrest on the order of 'Boris Guards' answerable to the London Mayor. In total four 'occupy democracy' protestors were arrested this weekend a stone's throw from the Westminster media pack - but not a word in the mainstream news.
… Mayor. In total four 'occupy democracy' protestors were arrested this weekend a … the Occupy pro-democracy and anti-tax dodging protesters. I had simply been standing … out arrest warning notices to peaceful protesters on Parliament Green (in 'Tarpaulin …
Democracy campaigner Donnachadh McCarthy is in court tomorrow tomorrow on a fictitious charge of 'assault against a security guard in Parliament Square'. But his real offence was to expose the corruption at the heart of the Lib-Dems, with the sale of peerages by political parties for around £300,000. And now the CPS is trying to deny him a fair trial.
… part of the peaceful weekend Occupy Democracy protest in Parliament Square, I was standing … Boris Johnson had been dangerously pushing protesters back over the fencing that the … had erected around the square to prevent the protest from taking place. At about 7.30pm a …
Protests. A political free-for-all or a new collective activism around social and environmental problems? Sylvia Rowley and Rachel Straus find out.
… The G20 marches - a pointless protest against everything, or the dawn of a … Rickard Straus | 2nd April 2009 News G20 ProtestProtests Climate Change London Tourism …
A direct action protest by Rising Up! today blocked access to three Heathrow terminals to press their demand for no third runway at the UK's biggest airport. The activists included both climate campaigners and local people fearful of increased pollution, loss of homes and green space and entire villages destroyed.
… Rising Up! protest blockades Heathrow airport The Ecologist | 21st February 2017 News Protest Aviation Transport Climate Change UK … no-new-runways-cut.jpg A direct action protest by Rising Up! today blocked access to …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
… Y Generation X Baby Boomers Millenials Protests 1968 The Future Hippies Environment Protest Children UK US Campaigns Environment Green Lifestyle Protest Society investigates.jpg February …
UK police now have free rein to create 'dispersal zones' in public places, writes Josie Appleton. This allows them to exclude people for anything from street drinking to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This represents a serious breach of our Common Law and Magna Carta rights.
… Freedom of speech, assembly, protest? All are nixed by new police powers … to looking suspicious, being homeless, protesting, or merely 'congregating'. This … kind of public gathering, including political protests, which poses a direct threat to …
The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices forced on them by the corporate 'free market' represent serious and effective resistance against the 'free trade' agenda being forced on the world by neoliberal governments, writes David Miller. They are the first steps to building a new global food system that respects food, people, culture and environment.
… system David Miller | 17th February 2016 News Protest Farming Food Trade EU Canada USA Labour Corporations Law Politics dairy-protest-cut.jpg The increasingly militant protests by dairy farmers against low prices …
A new interactive map shows the rise of Blockadia - the direct-action phenomenon of people putting their bodies in the way of fossil fuel projects. Co-ordinators ALICE OWEN and DARIA RIVIN provide an insiders' guide.
… 2017 News Blockadia Naomi Klein Canada COP23 Protest Direct Action 405655.jpg A new … spaces of resistances are Blockadia. Protests, occupations and blockades Based on … of these resistances; there were 16 known protests before 2006 - whereas there are 48 …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… Human Rights UK Fracking Law History fracking-protest-bm-cut.jpg The UK Government's policy … had a great impact upon the anti-GM crops protests - was the application of the civil … to act - as was the case during the roads protests, or when the CAA sought " the mother …
London cyclists were protesting yesterday at the failure of all but a handful of London's 33 Boroughs to invest in safe cycle routes - and the many thousands of deaths that failure is causing. Donnachadh McCarthy reports.
… Protesting the London Boroughs 'wall of death' … wall-of-death-3.png London cyclists were protesting yesterday at the failure of all but … of the major cycling and road safety protest in November 2014 - The National …
As part of a global week of action campaigners from Divest London have gathered to ‘Raise the Heat' on the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, writes Hal Rhoades - protesting its plan to invest in a ‘carbon bomb' coal project that endangers global climate and threatens to finish off the Great Barrier Reef.
… Bank of Australia, writes Hal Rhoades - protesting its plan to invest in a ‘carbon … campaigners from Divest London 'shoaled' in protest last week outside the Commonwealth … draw further criticism of the Bank, further protests, more account closures and more …
Following a monstrous spate of cyclist deaths in London, protestors are gathering outside the Bank of England tonight to demand: stop killing cyclists! The UK's peaceful cycling revolution is now under way, writes Donnachadh McCarthy, who invites us all to join the movement to make our cities safe for humans.
… monstrous spate of cyclist deaths in London, protestors are gathering outside the Bank of … and unusually not one but three major protests have been organised at the junction … London mayoral candidates also supporting the protest. The first of the three deaths, that …
Extreme energy in the UK is arousing extreme reactions, write Jess Elliot & Damien Short. On the one side stand citizens committed to preserving the quality of the local and global environment. And against them, a government determined to let fracking rip, and police forces prepared to ignore legal norms to suppress the growing popular resistance.
… there have been over 400 arrests of peaceful protestors, and data from Balcombe and Barton … use of political policing and intimidation of protestors. Civil and political rights have … Police and Sussex Police to peaceful protest at exploratory drilling sites, …
Senior Gloucestershire police were questioned this week about the policing of the 2013 pilot cull, writes Lesley Docksey. But the Police Commissioner never asked about the most serious problems - police bias and ignorance of the law, and culler criminality.
… facilitate the democratic right of people to protest. Which, of course, included using 'stop and search' powers 150 times - on protesters. They spoke a lot about people … nights and all that) but somehow suspect in protesters (well, that's what hunt saboteurs …
A year ago six London cyclists were killed in a horrendous spate of road violence, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. A demonstration this Saturday will mark their deaths, and demand Government action to improve road safety and reduce traffic pollution - moves that could save over 210,000 lives over the next decade.
… the next decade. A truly unique and dignified protest event will take place this Saturday on … deaths led to a massive peaceful 'Die-In' protest organised by a new spontaneously … is marking the anniversary by taking the protests to a national level, by taking a …
Since December 2011, when it became clear that the government was intent on its badger cull, Defra and Natural England have been flooded with FOI requests about how the culls would be set up, conducted and monitored. The notable success of Anna Dale in cutting through official obfuscation has implications for everyone trying to protect the environment and wildlife.
… Badger cull: protestors' legal right to information upheld … | 1st April 2016 Activism Law Badgers UK FOI Protest Natural World badger-demo-cut.jpg … concerning their environment, and informed protest if they disagree with those decisions. …
On the final day of the trial of Caroline Lucas and other anti-fracking protestors, we ask - what about human rights? Entirely neglected by the government in its desperate drive to frack, they ought to trump all other policy considerations.
… of Caroline Lucas and other anti-fracking protestors, we ask - what about human rights? … aspects of the fracking debate. But while her protest was focused on environmental concerns, … in affected communities are at risk. Right to protest Civil and political rights are also …