https://www.epsu.org/article/french-trade-unionists-call-solidarity-amidst-attacks-essential-rights

#France: Calls for national #strike over criminalization of company #occupations, #picketing on company grounds, other #EU protest limits

#union #Unions #CGT #FNME #VanQuickenborne #EPSU #HumanRights #ClassWar #PublicOrderAct #Repression #Capitalism

Last week, Suella Braverman signed off a ‘statutory instrument’ to edit protest law. It changed the legal definition of ‘serious disruption’ in the Public Order Act 1986 to mean simply ‘more than minor’.

Pledge a donation to support the Liberty and Civil Liberties Trust's legal challenge:

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/stop-bravermans-power-grab/

#ukpolitics #protest #RightToProtest #SuellaBraverman #PublicOrderAct

How police in England can now stop basically any protest.
New anti-protest legislation forced through by Suella Braverman has been labelled "unlawful" https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/police-powers-ban-protest-laws-suella-braverman/ #ToryFascists #ToryCriminals #FuckTheTories #CruellaBraverman #PublicOrderAct #KillTheBill

Looks interesting at 5pm GMT today: Free #Webinar from law firm Garden Court Chambers and NetPol, on the #PublicOrderAct and what it means for #Protest rights in the UK.

https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/events/free-webinar-public-order-act-where-are-we-now

#UKPolitics #Braverman #CivilRights

"Democracy has finally been destroyed by heroic Tories" via @LauraKT

"Finally, the #Tories have amended the #PublicOrderAct 1986 to make #protest super fucking illegal, unless ministers and #police approve of them first … redefining the meaning of disruptive protests to 'anything more than minor'."

The post is satire, but really, I despair of the state of UK politics, its utterly useless so-called opposition, and its lack of interest in #HumanRights

https://normalislandnews.substack.com/p/democracy-has-finally-been-destroyed

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

It's no longer just angry drivers forcibly moving protesters. Video shows a #JustStopOil activist being dragged across a road by a Met Police officer. The Met has said the man "was in a lane of oncoming traffic" and was dragged away "to prevent [him] being harmed." He was dragged and then dumped in front of a lane of vehicles, and there's no sign in the video of the "oncoming traffic" that was supposedly an imminent danger.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65765195.amp

#Protest #Protests #PublicOrderAct

#PublicOrderAct
#publicorderact
Know your rights. Get training.
https://greenandblackcross.org/events/

Not in the habit of recommending political committee hearings as essential viewing, but for anyone interested in the #PublicOrderAct and the recent arrest of #Republic campaigners, do set aside time to watch this.

Graham Smith gave a masterclass, against some very legitimate and also some profoundly stupid questioning from MPs. Cool, composed and rational throughout.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mdjr/select-committees-home-affairs-committee

#Protest #RightToProtest #HumanRights #Coronation

This week’s Philosophy Unleashed takes a look at disruption. Both the Public Order Act and erosion of the right to protest in England, and also leavers’ pranks at the end of the school year. Check it out here: https://www.philosophyunleashed.com/theblog/154-disruption-its-importance-and-its-impotence

#Philosophy #PhilosophyUnleashed #PublicOrderAct #Protest #Disruption #Pranks #Leavers #School #Policing #Dissent

Graham Smith and the other #Coronation protestors from Republic should never have been arrested.

The #PublicOrderAct is an assault on democracy.

Our statement here:

https://doctorsinunite.com/2023/05/06/republics-peaceful-protesters-should-never-have-been-arrested/

#CNN reporting the #MetropolitanPolice pre-arresting #Republican groups, and also discussing the new #Police powers that the #Police gained when the #PublicOrderAct received Royal ascent last Tuesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/06/uk/king-charles-anti-monarchy-protest-arrests-ckc-gbr-intl/index.html

Anne-Sophie Simpere (@asimpere): "Vous vous intéressez au #droitdemanifester? Ca vaut le coup de regarder ce qui se passe au #RoyaumeUni en amont du couronnement #CharlesIII : promulgation d'1 nouvelle loi répressive #PublicOrderAct, recours à la #reconnaissancefaciale... #Coronation = pas de #libertédexpression?" | nitter
https://nitter.hostux.net/asimpere/status/1654192903479087104#m

"The draconian Public Order Act was given royal assent on 2 May, dramatically increasing police powers to arrest protesters. The Home Office has already cited the new Act in threatening letters to anti-monarchists. The campaign group Republic received intimidating letters this week, listing the arrest powers under the new Act. Extinction Rebellion has also received similar threats.

In fact, the Guardian reported that one ‘senior’ insider, who knew about the discussions between the police and the government, confirmed that the Act had been brought into force early, ahead of the coronation on 6 May.

The new Public Order Act powers include penalties of a year in custody for blocking roads, railways and airports. In addition, protesters who use the tactic of locking-on could face up to six months in prison."

#UK #PublicOrderAct #Authoritarian

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/05/04/public-order-act-dubbed-the-worst-attack-on-dissent-for-decades/

Anne-Sophie Simpere (@asimpere): "Vous vous intéressez au #droitdemanifester? Ca vaut le coup de regarder ce qui se passe au #RoyaumeUni en amont du couronnement #CharlesIII : promulgation d'1 nouvelle loi répressive #PublicOrderAct, recours à la #reconnaissancefaciale... #Coronation = pas de #libertédexpression?" | nitter – https://nitter.net/asimpere/status/1654192903479087104#m

Steve Bell on protests at King Charles III’s #Coronation #CharlesIII #Republicanism #NotMyKing #PublicOrderAct #RightToProtest #DemocracyInDanger - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

#PublicOrderAct dubbed ‘the worst attack’ on dissent ‘for decades’ https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2023/05/04/public-order-act-dubbed-the-worst-attack-on-dissent-for-decades/

Read Ian Dunt's article about the anti-protest Act, and tell me you're not worried:
https://inews.co.uk/opinion/most-draconian-assault-free-speech-living-memory-now-law-2313273?ito=copy-link_share_article-top

#protest #FreedomofSpeech #PublicOrderAct

#PublicOrderAct: are you really happy for people to be arrested for walking slowly? https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/05/04/public-order-act-are-you-really-happy-for-people-to-be-arrested-for-walking-slowly/

Ben Jennings on messages to the monarch #CharlesIII #Coronation  #Republicanism #NotMyKing #PublicOrderAct #RightToProtest #DemocracyInDanger - political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com