The UK government are set on eroding any right to protest that is left. Please do anything you can. I don’t care what banner you do it under, just please do something.
Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, has scalded the government for their draconian crackdown on any people trying to sound the alarm but as we’ve seen recently, there is no justice system and countries cannot and will not hold each-other to account. You can read his report here.
UK stinks right now, Tories are looking at they’re own bottom line and dragging us with them.
I hope everything works out for you and sorry your being put through this but keep up the good fight
That’s obscene. I think there must be some sort of legal recourse, no? That seems intentionally designed to curtail your ability to protest through onerousness.
Yeah it’s super super repressive. I was held in custody (think solitary confinement) for 54 hours for a 10 minute march around parliament square another time. I’m also currently banned from London so can’t join the protests for Palestine happening there. I have friends who were put on GPS tags and not allowed to leave their home for similar marches. One other friend had their GPS tag set up wrong so police turned up and told her she was breaking her bail conditions by going in her bathroom because that’s outside the zone the police set for her 🙃
There’s no legal recourse, who am I going to complain to, the police? Lots of what they’re doing is illegal under their own laws and, more often, international law. But laws are nothing if they aren’t enforced.
If it’s illegal, lawyer up and sue. If it’s not illegal, contact your local newspaper to try to get the story out there so voters can decide it o7ght to be illegal.
I’m sorry this is happening to you, keep visible about all this. At some point the coppers will do this very treatment to the wrong one, and I hope there is a less-violent uprising.
Throughout history, the kings and their legal cronies have needled and passive aggressively irritated people (sometimes to suicide) all who disagreed with the current narrative. We can collectively cook up strategies against them, as there are more of us than them.
You have my respect and best wishes through all this. Keep your network alive, protect the people you know from new people you meet, and keep up the good fight!
The UK tortured Julian Assange before deporting him to the US. Despite the UN special rapporteur warning about it, no other country cared to hold the UK accountable.
Repression against those protesting and protecting the planet is on the rise literally everywhere. Protect yourself and your friends. Stay safe and support those that the state targets.
Also kinda connected, but maybe not what led to OPs legal issues: Many climate protest groups around the world use strategies that focus filming themselves while doing criminal acts and/or getting arrested and identified by the police. I believe its not useful to make it easy for the state to target protestors and organizers.
blow shit up seems like your last course of action
How do I get people to notice me?
Sounds to me like someone needs to ship out a few dozen train cars of Guy Fawkes masks.
Nice of them to provide for those in need of tinder for their fireplace.
At a social event around christmas we did a quiz and the “scrap paper” we were using was an injunction someone had been served lol
Jesus Christ that’s terrible
