Protesters warned that measures from the criminal justice bill would be turned against the wider population. We were right This article by Ally Fogg, writing in The Guardian 21 July 2009 Fifteen years on, there is little pleasure to be gained from saying “we told you so”. But the manner in which a law designed [...]
In the days following the G20 protests in London stories have begun to surface of what really occurred. Eyewitness accounts and testimony about the horrendous level of police brutality inflicted upon the protesters, seemingly without reason and without provocation. So many of these tales are truly harrowing to read, almost unbelievable in their description of [...]
With the publication by the Joint Select Committee on Human Rights of their seventh Report “Demonstrating respect for rights? A human rights approach to policing protest” on 23rd March it would seem that many of the points I was discussing in “Britain 2009” regarding the police misuse of “anti-terror” legislation in dealing with protests and [...]
The repercussions from last year’s Climate Camp at Kingsnorth in Kent (or rather, the repercussions from the policing of said event) just seem to be going on and on. We now have an article by Tracy McVeigh published in The Observer on 1st March “Police ‘over the top’ at climate camp“. Whilst the article focusses [...]
The ongoing saga of the so-called “Summer of Rage” sees another instalment with the publication in The Guardian on 27th February of the following comment by Kevin Smith, a participant in the Camp for Climate Action: “Summer of rage? It’s a figment of febrile imaginations According to your news report, there is concern at Metropolitan [...]
