A Likely Story
As the evidence accumulates, the Evening Standard’s allegations of terrorist planning have fallen apart.
Archive for the 'protest' Category
Beneath the Pall of Misery, a New Movement Is Born
The climate camp at Heathrow is materially different from protests that have taken place in Britain before.
Attack of the Baby Eaters
The press has been publishing a series of crazy scare stories about our intentions at the climate camp
This Is Now a Protest for Democracy
To win an injunction against protests at Heathrow airport, BAA used a law which threatens our democratic rights
A Plague of Lawyers
Their over-representation in politics is partly responsible for a long sequence of oppressive laws.
Bayoneting a Scarecrow
The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a coward’s cult. Read more »
Short Changed
9/11 conspiracism is dragging activists away from the real issues
Putting the State on Trial
Protesters who have damaged military equipment are walking away from the dock
A World Without Men
An untold story from Greenham Common Read more »
Protesters are Criminals
And hardly anyone is contesting the new clampdown
Protest as Harassment
The new crime bill permits the police to stop almost any demonstration.
The Alternative Media
Undercurrents and Schnews are both ten years old, and still blooming.
A Thousand Dusty Codicils
Little by little, democracy is being banned
Rattling the Bars
Something very big is stirring among Europe’s young people
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George Bush, The Anti-American
Our protests are against the policies, not the people
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Fired Up
Far from fizzling out, the global justice movement is growing in numbers and maturity
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The Time for Talking Is Over
We must oppose this war as we have never opposed one before
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World Bank to West Bank
The movement written off after September 11 is demonstrating its worth in Palestine
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On Violence
Review of the video “Non-Violence for a Change”, JustUs Productions (justus@gn.apc.org)
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Raising the Temperature
It’s time we started pulling down corporate headquarters
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Say It With Food
Throwing Eggs at Ministers is Good for Democracy
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Violence is Our Enemy
And peaceful protesters must be brave enough to stand up to it
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Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
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Britain Rising
A powerful new opposition movement is beginning to emerge
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Illegal Beagles
In the name of preventing violence, the government is being asked to ban peaceful protest
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Our Peripheral Parliament
Politics is moving out of Westminster, as our representatives avoid the real issues
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Still Digging
The 17th Century campaigner Gerrard Winstanley is a hero for the 21st Century
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No Way to Run a Revolution
One of Britain’s Most Effective Direct Action Movements Has Lost the Plot
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The Price of Dissent
People are being ruined for opposing development
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The Homespun Revolution
The Homespun Revolution
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Disruptive Protest is a Civic Duty
When the law is wrong it must be challenged. That’s progress
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Defective Inspectors
As the security services seek to justify their existence, harmless activists are being treated as terrorists
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Hawks and Doves
Four remarkable women are challenging the most powerful forces in the land
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Starting Over
Britain’s direct action movements have become a force for cultural and even economic renewal
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You don’t give us the Earth, we’ll take it.
The direct action movement is putting the passion back into politics
Get Off My Planet
Britain’s landlords are trespassing against our right to enjoy the countryside
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If Not Now, When?
There are no excuses for not joining the protest against the Newbury bypass
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Subversive Genius
Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal
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Back to 1662
The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago
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A Private Order Called Public Order
Environmentalism is at the vanguard of Britain’s movements for political change
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Fire in a Box
Britain’s protest movements have emerged in response to the enclosure of the land, the mind and political power. They are seeking to recover the freedom all of us have lost
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Your Round
Why doesn’t Guinness stop fighting us and help us to turn its land into something worthwhile?
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