Category: protest

Stir Crazy

Why are peaceful protesters getting longer sentences than violent rioters?

Labour must repeal the laws that led to shockingly disproportionate prison sentences for environmental protesters.

By appointing extremists to set the limits of free speech, the government protects powerful interests from challenge.

Peaceful protesters are facing extreme and multiple punishments for the same offence: the offence of trying to defend Earth systems.

Corporate lobbyists are demanding a ban on protest – and getting it.

The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation.

Corporations have found a way to punish people for disagreeing with them.

Using entirely bogus pretexts, the police are deploying oppressive new laws to shut down peaceful protest.

Should we blow up pipelines?

Environmental protesters are forbidden to explain their motivations to juries, making a mockery of justice.

What does democracy mean, under governments like this?

Why is life treated as less valuable than the depiction of life?

A government that cannot tolerate protest is a government that cannot tolerate democracy.

There’s no solidarity in the ‘sovereign citizen’ protests now taking off around the world, only incoherent rage.

At extraordinary speed, the government is shutting down crucial political freedoms. We must resist while we still can.

If the government’s amendments to the Police Bill are passed, we are on the path to authoritarianism.

Anyone seeking to defend life on Earth is now labelled an extremist. Yet the real extremists are those in power.

This is my rationale for getting arrested with Extinction Rebellion

The oil companies have successfully transferred blame for their actions to us. It is time to fight back.

History will be kind to the protesters who plan to stop flights at Heathrow airport. They are climate heroes.