Public meeting: Stand up for your freedom to protest! LSE, 2nd December
stateofemergency | 16.11.2007 11:43 | SOCPA | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War | London
Gordon Brown plans to extend the restrictions on demonstrations near parliament to cover the whole country, claiming that this will simplify the work of the police. The current law totally bans spontaneous protests, requiring advance police permission, which allows the police to impose arbitrary limits on numbers and effectively act as political censors. The consultation proposes extending these rules to any protest anywhere, in the name of 'harmonisation'. The freedom to protest was won through hard struggle and if we want to keep it we must take a stand to say enough is enough. Come to a public meeting to plan a public response: we propose early January.
Public meeting
LSE room H102, Connaught House
2-4pm, Sunday 2nd December
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm
Public meeting
LSE room H102, Connaught House
2-4pm, Sunday 2nd December
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Brown likes to talk about liberty, quoting everyone he can dig up. Yes, they're all conveniently dead, no danger of them telling him he's talking shit. The police pleas for more powers against demos to be made more restrictive have got a welcome from the government. No surprise there. Whenever our rulers (Labour, Tory, same shit story!) give up buying us off with a half-decent welfare state, housing that real working people can afford, and the right to stand up to our bosses effectively, they always end up trying to beat us into submission.
190 years ago protesters were massacred at Peterloo, the government response was more police powers. Southall, Toxteth, Brixton, Orgreave, Tottenham, Wapping, Bradford, Fairford, more police powers. The government talks as if the freedom to protest is the product of liberal philosophers, in reality it is the product of working people fighting every inch of the way to extract concessions from those who only want obedience. The "war on terror" has just given them another excuse, the war on our liberties never went away.
We have a choice: do we let generations of struggles disappear into the history books or do we say-
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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State of Emergency seeks to highlight and take direct action against the causes and effects of the War on Terror. We stand in solidarity against military and economic oppression by defending ourselves against the ever increasing domination of the state. We recognise that the state of emergency in which we live will continue for as long as our obedience enables them to control us.
190 years ago protesters were massacred at Peterloo, the government response was more police powers. Southall, Toxteth, Brixton, Orgreave, Tottenham, Wapping, Bradford, Fairford, more police powers. The government talks as if the freedom to protest is the product of liberal philosophers, in reality it is the product of working people fighting every inch of the way to extract concessions from those who only want obedience. The "war on terror" has just given them another excuse, the war on our liberties never went away.
We have a choice: do we let generations of struggles disappear into the history books or do we say-
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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State of Emergency seeks to highlight and take direct action against the causes and effects of the War on Terror. We stand in solidarity against military and economic oppression by defending ourselves against the ever increasing domination of the state. We recognise that the state of emergency in which we live will continue for as long as our obedience enables them to control us.
stateofemergency
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Additions
FullGov con-sultation document
17.11.2007 14:29
You can read the full goverment proposals for reducing all our rights to protest to the lowest common denominator at http//www.homeoffice.gov.uk/documents/cons-2007-managing protest?view=Binary
Bonzo
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info
16.11.2007 14:49
jock
more info please
16.11.2007 15:16
I'm not disputing this fact but could you point me to any other info on the web relating to this statement, as I'm genuinely interested (and alarmed!)
Thanks in advance.
KS
Pathetic
19.11.2007 01:21
Karl Marx
how precisely are we going to save the world then?
29.11.2007 13:24
Is it the middle class per se asking for help to smash the state or just trying anything at all he finds laughable? If he wants the chavs to rise up, they'll be a long time prising themselves away from their widescreens and onto the streets. Not unless primark have got a sale on. And apart from meetings and telling people about stuff, how is the revolution going to be engendered exactly? Whats he going to do? Perhaps he should go to the meeting and tell his fantastic ( in the old sense of the word probably) plan to everyone so we can roll it out, save the world and go home in time for tea.
Garibaldi anyone?
s smith