Infringements on the right to protest have been 'emboldened' by successive governments, report argues

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The authors hit out at a “growing portrayal of protesters as alleged threats to democracy rather than a vital part of public participation.”

Two major Acts of Parliament – the Police Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 – have “changed the legal landscape” for protest drastically over the past few years.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    12 hours ago

    Labour should end those Acts made by the Tories, if they know what’s good for them.

    They won’t….but they should.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    21 hours ago

    They’ll throw protestors in prisons until the oceans swallow them all. Then they’ll throw them in the ocean.

    • solo@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Doomerism not helping. We get tones of it from the mass media, and from people reproducing this narrative (online and in person) that wants us to think that it’s better to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

      I’m fed up with this approach.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        I didnt say you can’t resist. I just said they’ll fight it until there is nothing left to defend anymore. Governments are choosing to arrest protestors over charging the heaviest climate polluters.