Know Your Rights – A Guide for Protesters
Check out our new Know Your Rights handbook – a new guide co-produced with the National Union of Students (NUS) containing lots of practical information about attending a protest.… Read More
Defence Campaigns
Know Your Rights #EndAusterityNow #JuneDemo
Marching on #June20 #EndAusterityNow? Have a great day.
Don’t forget to pick up a bust card from Green and Black Cross. … Read More
Oxford Antifascist report - Trial dates announced for 11th and 12th November
Following the hearing for two antifascists facing charges for protesting against the National Front in Oxford, the police are pursuing the case against one but have dumped the other case.… Read More
Solidarity call for anti-fascists targeted by police on anti-NF protest in Oxford
Pic by Dan Fearnley: Anti-fascists mobilised against the NF in Oxford on Saturday
Solidarity protest, Mon 11th August, 1-2pm, Oxford Magistrates Court
By Nick Evans: Two antifascists are facing charges for demonstrating against the National Front in Oxford on Saturday 26th July.… Read More
Violent disorder again: the topsy turvy world of protest law
By Susan Matthews, DtRtP and Justice for Alfie Meadows
If something seems to good to be true, it probably is: the belief that the police and CPS had learnt their lesson from a series of embarrassing failures to prosecute student protesters (including the Hilliard brothers and my son Alfie Meadows) in the wake of the 2010 student protests, turns out to be false. … Read More
DEFEND RMT ACTIVIST MARK HARDING - DROP THE CHARGES
**UPDATE: The Defend Mark Harding campaign is calling for the biggest possible display of solidarity with him at the RMT picket line this Wednesday, 12th Feb, at Hammersmith (H&C) station, the scene of Mark’s arrest last week.… Read More
B’HAM ARRESTS: time and again the states sense of entitlement to our information exceeds its own laws
Guest post by SUSANNAH MENGESHA who won a judicial review against police use of kettling for intelligence gathering last year
(Pic: Lou Macnamara)
Time and again the state’s sense of entitlement to our personal information exceeds its own laws.… Read More
JOINT PRESS RELEASE: ESCALATION OF REPRESSION AS STUDENTS PLEDGE TO MOBILISE
Joint press release from Defend Education Birmingham, Defend the Right to Protest and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.… Read More
Defend B’ham students: kettled, held in police cells and 3 now charged with violent disorder
On Wednesday (29th January) over 300 students met in Birmingham to discuss resistance against privatisation, commodification and marketization of education.… Read More
Sussex disciplinary hearings adjourned due to bias - but the fight is not over
By Jelena Timotijevic
Today’s disciplinary hearings of the Sussex students (four happened today; the fifth is to occur later in the term) took place in the context that has become familiar to public sector workers not just in schools, colleges and universities, but also in the NHS, the post office, our public libraries and community centres: mass privatisation and outsourcing of public services.… Read More