Protest, Prison & The #Right2Water Movement - an interview with Paul O’Connell

Posted on 28 February 2022 by admin

Following the imprisonment of five Right2Water protesters in Ireland last week, DtRtP talked to Paul O’Connell a Reader in Law at SOAS who has been active in the anti-water charges movement in Ireland and building solidarity here in London.… Read More

Beyond The Law: Defend The Right To Protest And The Ferguson Solidarity Tour

Posted on 24 February 202224 February 2022 by admin

Patrisse Cullors #BlackLivesMatter with Carole Duggan and Marcia Rigg in Tottenham”Published by 12 Feb. “The recent Ferguson Solidarity Tour shows the solidarity that has been built in response to police violence, in which the process of exclusion is turned against itself and becomes the basis of a new collective political subject.” By Matt Bolton, in New Left Project Last December, hundreds of protestors brought the US #blacklivesmatter movement to London, staging a die-in at Shepherd’s Bush Westfield shopping centre.… Read More

Innocence is not a simple matter. My son would not have been acquitted without legal aid

Posted on 23 February 202224 February 2022 by admin

Susan Matthews, mother of Alfie Meadows and Secretary of Defend the Right to Protest joined the Justice Alliance #RelayForRights on Saturday 21 February 2015.… Read More

JUSTICE FOR ALL: Join the “Not the Global Law Summit” protests

Posted on 20 February 202224 February 2022 by admin

Defend the Right to Protest will be joining - civil liberties groups and human rights lawyers this weekend to walk from Runnymede to Westminster in defence of the legacy of Magna Carta and to highlight the hypocrisy of the government’s three-day event to mark the 800th anniversary of the historic document, the ‘Global Law Summit’.… Read More