Protest
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⚠️ Privacy Alert: Protesters around the world are being watched — and tracked — like never before
No matter what cause you’re standing up for, joining a protest today can come with serious privacy risks. From facial recognition to phone tracking, surveillance tech is being used to monitor protests and intimidate participants. The risks are real, but there are ways to stay safer. Continue reading
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Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful
Recently introduced anti-protest legislation has been ruled unlawful in the courts this week, in a major defeat for the government. What is ‘serious disruption’ and why does it matter? Continue reading
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The Resistance Will Not Be Televised
So declared the headline of a March 19 article on the nonprofit news site Waging Nonviolence. Authors Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman and Soha Hammam, political scientists at Harvard’s Crowd Counting Consortium, outlined how—despite a common belief that grassroots public resistance against the depredations of the Trump Administration is lacking or lukewarm—protests are actually rising dramatically. Continue reading
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Climate protest ruling ‘another nail in the crucifixion of Justice’
THIRTY people turned their backs on judges today to reveal T-shirts reading “corruption in court,” after it was announced that only six years would be shaved off a 41-year prison sentence for climate protesters involved in peaceful action. Continue reading
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Are arms companies now “prohibited places”?
Campaigners have reported a concerning new police tactic to discourage protests against weapons manufacturers and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Continue reading
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This is how the British state is trying to crush the Palestine movement
Inspired by Netpol’s ‘In Our Millions’ report and featuring an interview with Netpol’s Kevin Blowe, Novara detail the impact that continually framing protests as potential sites of crime has on our right to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. Continue reading
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‘In Our Millions’: a year of protest against genocide
The last year has brought devastation to many, and sparked one of the biggest waves of pro-Palestine campaigning the UK has ever seen. As the latest escalation shows, the fight is not over yet. Continue reading
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Know Your Rights for Palestine Protesters
As we near the one-year anniversary of the genocide in Gaza, protests are being planned around the country. Many people are joining protests at the Labour Conference in Liverpool this weekend, and demonstrations are planned in towns and cities across the UK. Continue reading
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25 arrested as police shut down climate camp
In the early hours of Thursday 8 August, police stopped a convoy of vehicles carrying tents, compost toilets, wheelchair access ramps, and camping equipment that was headed to the planned Reclaim the Power camp near Drax power station. Everyone in the vehicles was arrested. Continue reading
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Gaza resistance sparks youth revolt in the belly of imperialism
Students in the USA are risking both present academic and future career prospects to oppose US academia’s widespread collaboration with and investment in zionist Israel, its institutions and especially its arms industry. Their example is one that should be followed by workers and students everywhere. We need to build the British wing of an international… Continue reading
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Rebellion over Gaza: the British left strikes back
THE climbdown by the Metropolitan Police from cutting the route of today’s London march to stop the genocide in Gaza is a further indication of a rising political force beyond Westminster. Continue reading
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Police response to anti-monarchy protests shows the need for Netpol’s Charter for Freedom of Assembly Rights
There has been outrage this week at the arrests and threat of arrest of anti-monarchy protesters. However the arrests have also led to a lot of misinformation and alarmist statements about the law and our right to protest. Continue reading
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COMMENT: police ‘not knowing’ whether protest is permitted is deliberate – and it has to end
There has been considerable press interest in the fairly small number of arrests (or threats of arrests) of anti-monarchists since the Queen’s death on 8 September. Continue reading
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Want to protest against the monarchy? These are your rights!
In recent days, there’s been outrage as anti-monarchy protesters have either been arrested or threatened with arrest. However, the arrests have also led to a lot of misinformation and alarmist statements about the law and our rights. Continue reading
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UK: Is dissent now illegal? How worried should we be?
The Government has changed the law to make it easier for the police to restrict where and how we protest, and it’s set to do so again in the coming months. For many, freedom of assembly is essential to a healthy democracy. Just how worried should we be about the new powers the Government has… Continue reading
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Major UK Political Parties Back ‘State Threats’ Bill That Would Restrict Press Freedom
All main political parties in the United Kingdom have called for immediate passage in Parliament of new measures to fight “state threats,” which would restrict press freedom and threaten civil liberties. Continue reading
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The Police Bill has received Royal Assent. Get ready to resist!
On 28th April, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill received Royal Assent. Thousands of us took to the streets to resist this draconian legislation. But the battle against the bill was never going to be won in parliament, and it’s now down to all of us to make it unenforceable on the streets. Continue reading
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EXPLAINER: what are the government’s latest proposals for punishing protesters?
On Sunday at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Home Secretary Priti Patel announced the latest punitive proposals for new police powers in her ongoing vendetta against political and social movements the government refuses to engage with. Continue reading
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G7 Summit police confused about duty to protect freedom of assembly
Protests against the forthcoming G7 summit, from 11-13 June in Carbis Bay in Cornwall, are expected to face a huge policing operation that includes exclusion zones and around 6500 officers from around the country. A coalition of organisations under the banner “Resist G7” are organising demonstrations on each day of the summit and separately, Extinction… Continue reading
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