#RightToProtest
Please, explain why any voter should be optimistic that Dems will wield their power, rather than "supporting" via lip service.
What is to impel #Democrats to STICK TO a halfway decent legislative agenda, rather than theatrically wringing their hands as more of our rights go poof and then slaveringly fundraising off the issue once it's gone? Y'know, like what happened with this very issue on Biden's watch?
Especially interested in what might force moral choices on matters that might cost their donors money, such as #WorkersRights, #protest #RightToProtest, and #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange change related issues.
Kashmir's anger over Gaza simmers as India keeps lid on protests
Ruling party spokesman denies ban, but stresses need for 'law and order'.
#kashmir #palestine #GazaGenocide #israel #gaza #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #PalestineSolidarity #censorship #BJP #hindutva #india
#humanrights #UK #authoritarianism #hrw #righttoprotest #refugees “... what we’re seeing is the UK moving towards a place where the government feels it can undermine the integrity of the judiciary, undermine or scrap human rights laws that don’t serve its current political agenda, and create new laws that do. This is a dangerous place to find ourselves in. This can start to look very much like authoritarianism.” https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/nov/21/political-attack-on-human-rights-is-a-dangerous-assault-on-uk-democracy-says-hrw-director
“Long jail sentences handed to two Just Stop Oil climate campaigners could stifle protest, the United Nations has warned the UK government”
or in other words
“You are achieving your aims, UN assures UK government”
Capitol Police Violently Break Up Jewish-Organized DNC Protest Calling for Gaza Ceasefire http://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/17/dnc_headquarters_ceasefire_gaza_protest_ifnotnow #CapitolPolice #Gaza #CeasefireNow #PoliceViolence #CivilRights #activism #RightToProtest
Good Law Project
Suella Braverman whipped up a far-right mob at the weekend, with the vast majority of the arrests among those who came to disrupt a peaceful march.
Our democratic right to make our voices heard is not a politician's to give away
Faced with a government hell-bent on silencing peaceful action, last year we hired the protest lawyer Lochlinn Parker. In this video, he explains why he’s worried and what we can do to fight back
https://goodlawproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f1c42fae5214b3ee59aab75ab&id=a37aab167c&e=029f2a5337
#RightToProtest #GoodLawProject
Military top brass turn on Suella Braverman over pro-Palestine march ban row | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/braverman-protest-row-military-palestine-b2445267.html
#Braverman
#Military
#RightToProtest
#ProPalestinianMarches
#ProPalestinianProtests
#Police
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Pro-Palestine march: Armistice Day organisers back protest tomorrow | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pro-palestine-march-protest-london-police-armistice-b2445123.html
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“Government officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values, according to documents seen by the Observer.”
Looking forward to the doors of the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, the Home Office, 55 Tufton Street and Conservative Central Office being kicked in by the Met the moment this legislation gets Royal Assent.
As I am getting accusations of being, i quote "a #nazi" for suggesting that there are moderates in #Israel that object to #Netanyahu's rampage on #Gaza, I'd like to remind everyone that #Bibi's cabinet just approved #police use of LIVE FIRE against protesters. While this is aimed at #Palestinian citizens of #Israel (who said there was no #apartheid?), it will impact sane #Jewish citizens as well. May moderates be strong in their righeousness! 🙏🏽 #RighttoProtest https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/cabinet-said-slated-to-okay-police-use-of-live-fire-against-protesters-blocking-roads-during-multi-front-war/
UK government demands intensified clampdown on protests in defence of Palestinians - World Socialist Web Site
#FreePalestine! #GazaUnderAttack #FreeSpeech! #NoToCensorship! #RightToProtest #Protest
'In Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK, authorities have responded to climate protests with mass arrests, the passing of draconian new laws, the imposing of severe sentences for non-violent protests and the labelling of activists as hooligans, saboteurs or eco-terrorists.' #righttoprotest #lastgeneration #LesSoulévementsdelaTerre #publicorderact https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/human-rights-experts-warn-against-european-crackdown-on-climate-protesters
libertyhumanrights.org.uk
The High Court has granted Liberty permission to take legal action against Suella Braverman for unlawfully introducing new anti-protest legislation which had been democratically rejected by Parliament. Way to go Liberty!
#LibertyHumanRights #SuellaBraverman #RightToProtest #freedom #fascism #ToryFascism
Milestone! Today marks week three of an #ExtinctionRebellion marathon demo on the #A12 to demand an end to fossil fuel subsidies.
For three weeks in a row, rebels have been making use of their #RightToProtest by blocking a road in front of the Houses of Parliament in The Hague.
How long must this continue? Until they stop killing the planet 🔥
pic: District8
#XR #StopFossieleSubsidies #ClimateEmergency #JustStopOil #JustStopCoal
In March this year, Trudi Warner stood outside Inner London crown court with a sign that spelled out a jury’s right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience.
The solicitor general decided to prosecute Warner for ‘contempt of court’.
Simply stating the law, telling the truth, amounts to contempt of court?
Today, 252 others replicated Warner’s action in protest.
Let's not be silent when rights are crushed.
Amnesty International sounds the alarm about Dutch crackdown on peaceful, non-violent protest involving civil disobedience.
During the ongoing #ExtinctionRebellion #A12 marathon demo in The Hague, officials and police have:
* Used disproportional force, violence against protesters
* Humiliated disabled protesters
* Misrepresented the legal right to protest
* Misused child safety agency resources
* Confiscated megaphones, musical instruments of supporters, violating their right to free expression
Report (in Dutch): https://www.amnesty.nl/actueel/een-week-klimaatdemonstraties-vijf-opvallende-zaken
Members of a jury have the absolute, unfettered right to decline to be the executioners of unjust laws.
The point of the exercise *should* be to introduce humanity to a system otherwise perfectly designed to repress, intimidate and make an example of deviants and rebels, and by extension the rest of us.
Otherwise, all the jury system does is ensure that lots more people are walking around with blood on their hands.
#TrialByJury #ClimateJustice #CivilLiberties #RightToProtest #TrudiWarner
68yo #TrudiWarner is being prosecuted for contempt of court for holding a sign informing jurors of their right to acquit on conscience, outside a trial of environmental protestors at Inner London Crown Court.
If the trial had been held at the Central Criminal Court, (the #OldBailey ) 1.5 miles north, jurors would have been able to read the plaque outside telling them about this right and its origin in Bushel’s Case, 1670.
“#RightToProtest is a distinctive feature of #democratic, #liberal societies. Yet the way in which many leading British politicians are currently talking about #JustStopOil might make you think otherwise. Far from engaging with the issues at stake…, politicians appear to be encouraging the wider public to ignore them or even oppose them.”
Addendum 7
Cop City & the Silencing of Dissent
Officials in Georgia cover up police killing of protester; waging chilling assault on right to protest
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/cori-bush-rashida-tlaib-cop-city
* started out as local fight over $90 million, 85-acre militarized police base near Atlanta, known as Cop City
* turned into 1 of most extreme cases of gov. overreach, oppression, & violence
#Atlanta #RICO #StopCopCity #RightToProtest #neofascism #DefundPolice #Tortuguita #MurderByCop #assassination #DefundCorporations
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@greenpeace Addendum 6 cont'd 3/
Stop Cop City activist facing RICO charges, political repression
Priscilla Grim believes the movement can win by fighting back w. care, courage and resilience
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2023/09/stop-cop-city-activist-priscilla-grim-rico-shine-light-political-repression
* attended week of action incl. protests, music festival, arts workshops, free clinic
* “... people shouldn’t be scared. This is a time for solidarity ...”
Priscilla Grim (source: https://persagen.com/docs/sources.html#influencewatch):
https://www.influencewatch.org/person/priscilla-grim
Anti-#monarchy [Pro-#Republic] protester suing #Met chief over #coronation day arrest
Republic’s #GrahamSmith seeking #JudicialReview of #lawfulness of arrest as well as damages
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/12/anti-monarchy-protester-suing-met-chief-over-coronation-day-arrest #ToryPoliciesInAction #FreedomOfSpeech #Protest #RightToProtest #Censorship #NastyParty #Law
If you would strip others of thier rights because they violate your personal morality or offend you in some way, you are not pro-rights. #womensrights #lgbtqia rights #transgenderrights #freespeech #bodilyautonomy #privacyrights #righttoprotest #righttotravel... they're all part of the same core package.
We don't have to agree with someone's choices to respect thier right to make them. I've never done drugs but if you want to toke, I support your right to do so. I oppose laws to send you to prison for it.
I'm not required to approve of your choices, nor you of mine. I don't owe you a platform or my ear, nor you me. But we do owe each other the courtesy of noninterference with each others' rights.
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Climate change is one of the biggest existential threats we face and citizens are exercising their right to peacefully protest against the Government inaction that is contributing towards it.
Yet climate change protesters are receiving increasingly harsh treatment from the police, Government and judicial system
Addendum 6 cont'd 2/
Greenpeace USA Executive Director, Ebony Twilley Martin:
“This is what authoritarian governments do. Our democracy is being dismantled in front of our eyes. ...
"The right to protest is protected by the 1st Amendment, but there has been a noticeable, purposeful escalation of efforts to criminalize & silence peaceful protest, dissent, & advocacy in recent years. ..."
@greenpeace
Greenpeace USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace_USA
Addendum 6 cont'd
Greenpeace USA Pushes Back: This is NOT a Democracy
RICO actions pose serious threats to democracy, hence ability to advance climate justice
Via these harsh tactics officials protect polluters, punish activists
* response to the 61 activists indicted on racketeering charges in connection to the Stop Cop City movement
#RICO #GOP #Greenpeace #Atlanta #StopCopCity #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #extremism #DefundThePolice #neofascism #HumanRights #RightToProtest
Addendum 6
‘Cop City’ Activists Indicted on Racketeering Charges
Opponents engaged in legitimate protest
Prosecutors accuse them of sprawling criminal enterprise
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/cop-city-atlanta-indictment.html
Activist Responds to RICO Charges Intensifying Criminalization of Stop Cop City
https://truthout.org/articles/activist-responds-to-rico-charges-intensifying-criminalization-of-stop-cop-city
* 61 people indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges
#RICO #GOP #solidarity #Atlanta #StopCopCity #MilitarizedPolice #PoliceState #extremism #DefundThePolice #neofascism #HumanRights #RightToProtest
The right to peacefully assemble and #protest is sacrosanct, New York Attorney General says, explaining a legal settlement w/the NYPD to prevent them from “kettling” #protesters and then arresting them. #FreeSpeech #RightToAssemble #RightToProtest #FirstAmendment https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/nyregion/nypd-settlement-protesters-penning.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Can someone explain why Starmer instructed Labour Lords to abstain in Jenny Jones's 'fatal motion' debate this evening, letting through the Public Order Act, 154 to 68?
This drastically reduces our right to protest, enabling police & gov't to redefine 'serious disruption' as anything causing ‘more than a minor interference’ to daily activity.
Now, when there's more to protest against than ever.
Extract from an email sent by Graham Smith of Republic:
"Our arrests have been covered around the world and by all UK media outlets. It has been noted by a lot of observers that Charles has remained silent and has not made any effort to defend our values and liberties.
***Republic has also seen a huge influx of members, supporters and donations."*** 👊👊🥳
#FreeSpeech #RightToProtest #Coronation #NotMyKing #MetPolice #AbolishTheMonarchy #FuckTheTories #UKPolitics
@SteveJonesnono1
Update on "you can't protest in France then come here, mate" ...
This is terrifying:
#CivilRights #UKPolitics #RightToProtest #EnoughIsEnough
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/19/french-publisher-arrested-in-london-was-asked-about-support-for-macron
In case you were in any doubt who's going to be the propaganda wing for the bully boy state ...
#RightToProtest #UKPolitics #GrandNational #FuckTheTories #AnimalRights
The UK has been downgraded in the Civicus Monitor, an annual global index of civic freedoms, as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests
@openrightsgroup we are resisting this corrupt dangerous govt on so many fronts.
#GTTO #ukpolitics #stopthebills
#refugeeswelcome #RightToProtest
Morgenavond (1 maart, 20:00u – 21:30u) organiseert Amnesty NL een online bijeenkomst over demonstratierecht. Wat gaat er mis bij demonstraties in Nederland? Weet jij wat je rechten zijn als je een demonstratie wilt organiseren? Activisten (XR, KOZP, Woonprotest) delen hun persoonlijke ervaringen en Amnesty vertelt over beperkingen van het demonstratierecht in de praktijk en de campagne #RightToProtest.
Aanmelden hier: https://www.amnesty.nl/kom-in-actie/acties/macht-van-de-straat-aanmelding
Here’s a suffragette asking people to take a long view on their dispute over voting rights.
We must do the same over the right to withdraw labour. We cannot be compelled to work with no power to agree the terms and conditions. We are not productivity robots.
#Strikes #RightToStrike #EqualRights #WorkersRights #HumanRights #EnoughIsEnough #RightToProtest