Derbyshire police go over the top again - Rolls Royce

Section 14 can only limit numbers, duration and location for an assembly - they cannot use it to impose other conditions such as stopping you using whistles, megaphones, giving out leaflets. Nor can they use it to against processions which come under section 12.

Section 14 also does not apply in areas other than the ones specificially designated. Also it is a defense if you did not know about it, for example there was too much noise to hear the police megaphones or you did not take the paper they hand out at protest sites.

Of course you could turn all this on its head and make the police suffer for their anti-free speech tactics by having loads of other solidarity actions through the town and elsewhere.

"Of course you could turn all this on its head and make the police suffer for their anti-free speech tactics by having loads of other solidarity actions through the town and elsewhere."

make it so.

k

Blockading the Rolls Royce factory in Derby is nothing new. See previous articles published on Indymedia in 2003:

Invitation to join big peace blockade in Derby - 2005
 http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/09/324584.html

Faslane Peace Camp's Birthday Blockade of Rolls-Royce - 11 June 2003
 https://www1.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/06/72266.html

Derby Rolls Royce Blockaders Found Guilty - 2003
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2003/11/281390.html

Peace Activists close Rolls Royce - Feb 2003
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/02/55432.html

Activists close Rolls Royce Derby (Trident manufacturer) - 28 Jan 2003
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/01/51724.html