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Just received more legal papers for the crime of a 30 minute protest march. I'm now up to 153 pages for this one protest.
(lemmy.blahaj.zone)
The UK government are set on eroding any right to protest that is left. Please do anything you can. I don't care what banner you do it under, just please do something.
Michel Forst, the UN Special Rapporteur on Environmental Defenders, has scalded the government for their draconian crackdown on any people trying to sound the alarm but as we've seen recently, there is no justice system and countries cannot and will not hold each-other to account. You can read his report here.
I'm sorry this is happening to you, keep visible about all this. At some point the coppers will do this very treatment to the wrong one, and I hope there is a less-violent uprising.
Throughout history, the kings and their legal cronies have needled and passive aggressively irritated people (sometimes to suicide) all who disagreed with the current narrative. We can collectively cook up strategies against them, as there are more of us than them.
You have my respect and best wishes through all this. Keep your network alive, protect the people you know from new people you meet, and keep up the good fight!