Apartheid in South Africa, Poll Tax, fracking, the Berlin Wall, stonewall riots for homosexual equality, Tahir Square Protests, Egypt 2011. To force Hosni Mubarak out of power, March on Washington, USA 1963. Raise awareness about racial inequality and demand equal rights.
All of the above...
I know we had our to-and-fro over covid legislation but this is exactly what I was worried about when the covid laws eroded our freedoms temporarily. This bunch of power mad opportunists nutters were never going to be able to give up their new found control.
Why should it have to be granted or not? To protest has been our human right for well over a century and is one of the corner stones of democracy. It is something often cited as what makes our way of life better than communist dictatorships or facism. It is what people have literally lost...
It doesn’t matter if there was or wasn’t this new Bill would have given the Police the right to stop the Goldstone protests. It will give them the right to Wade in and stop any protest.
Read this. Up to TEN years in prison because they might think you have been an “annoyance” or a “nuisance”...
It seems to have passed most of the people here by but Priti Patel is trying to get a bill through parliament that will fundamentally reduce the democratic right to protest. Not during Covid but permanently. Police will literally have the right to decide which protest they deem acceptable or...