THIS IS NOT A PROTEST.

This Saturday performance artist Mark McGowan is to challenge the government and police’s Westminster protest ban by walking backwards inside the entire exclusion zone wearing a tee shirt saying THIS IS NOT A PROTEST, and whispering the words ‘ this is not a protest,this is not a protest’, to passers-by.

A recent law was passed banning all protests within-in a one mile exclusion zone, which also includes any banners, placards and loud hailers.

The event will start at 10am in Westminster Square this Saturday 17th December 2005.

McGowan says, “I don’t think that I am breaking the law, I hope not i am not an activist just an artist, i dont want to get arrested and thrown in jail or anything like that. i am not planning to do a piece about prisons. i just think that

'Everyone has the right of freedom of opinion and _expression; this includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information through any media and regardless of frontiers.' -- Article 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights

this statement says it all."

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