Pressure forces Home Office publish data on police use of powers - Netpol
https://netpol.org/2023/06/20/pressure-forces-home-office-publish-data-on-police-use-of-powers/ #NetPol #RightToProtest #protest #democracy #fascism

Stripping away our right to dissent
Netpol’s Kevin Blowe rounds up the set of incoming laws which threaten to outlaw all but the most useless forms of protest..

Nothing quite illustrates how a spark can seem to catch and then fail to fully ignite than these two grim facts. There are young people in prison in Britain today because they came onto the st
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/06/04/stripping-away-our-right-to-dissent/
#ActivismAndLaw #KevinBlowe #netpol #Protest #PublicOrderAct

Call for solidarity by NetPol - The rights of disabled campaigners during this weekend of protest https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/18/call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/ #Netpol #DisabilityRights #RightToAssembly #RightToProtest #PoliceDiscrimination #PoliceBrutality #InstitutionalDiscrimination #MetPolice #MetPoliceViolence #NoMorePolicePowers #ACAB

Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restrict
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/18/call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts #DWP #ExtinctionRebellion #MetPolice #netpol #Repression #Solidarity

Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic discrimination towards disabled protesters that we documented in our report “Restrict
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/04/18/call-for-solidarity-defend-the-rights-of-disabled-campaigners/
#DisabledPeopleAgainstCuts #DWP #ExtinctionRebellion #MetPolice #netpol #Repression #Solidarity

Taking a label the police see as a negative and turning it into one that we are proud to embrace, #AggravatedActivistDay will take place on 15 February 2023 to celebrate our fundamental right to express our displeasure and anger about the mess Britain is now in. https://netpol.org/2022/11/02/stay-aggravated-in-the-permacrisis/ #AggravatedActivist #NetPol

Climate activists targeted in police crackdown at G7
During the G7 summit last weekend, officers from Devon & Cornwall Police arrested 29 members of the animal rights and climate emergency group Animal Rebellion, in what looked like the deliberate targeting of anyone associated with them for harassment, searches, and arrests.

The largest number of arrests were
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/06/17/climate-activists-targeted-in-police-crackdown-at-g7/
#G7 #Legal #netpol #Police #Protest

Doing our duty by the lawyers
Recently we’ve had a bout of whinging on Twittergram about our advice to not use the Duty Solicitor at the police station. Since this has included such august bodies as the Law Society and generated a fair amount of debate here’s some detail and background on why this has been the policy of all protest support groups going ba
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/19/doing-our-duty-by-the-lawyers/
#dutysolicitor #GreenandBlackCross #Legal #netpol #protestsupport

Doing our duty by the lawyers
Recently we’ve had a bout of whinging on Twittergram about our advice to not use the Duty Solicitor at the police station. Since this has included such august bodies as the Law Society and generated a fair amount of debate here’s some detail and background on why this has been the policy of all protest support groups going ba
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2021/04/19/doing-our-duty-by-the-lawyers/
#dutysolicitor #GreenandBlackCross #Legal #netpol #protestsupport