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
Know Your Police
Responses to the repression of the #copsoffcampus demo.
The Guardian has published some fantastic responses the police riot last Wednesday. Hundreds of lecturers and education staff have signed statements of support.… Read More
Justice 4 Leon Briggs Vigil, 4th Dec, 7pm, Luton Police Station
The Community gathered outside Luton police station on Buxton Road last Monday night (18.11). It’s estimated that more than 100 people went to the candlelit vigil held for Leon Briggs who died in police custody on 4 November.… Read More
Report back from DtRtP Conference
Defend the Right to Protest Conference –
DtRtP would like to thank everyone who came along to our second national conference on the weekend.… Read More
Justice for Mark Duggan
Today the inquest into the death of Mark Duggan, shot by police marksmen in the summer of 2011, begins at the Royal Courts of Justice.… Read More
Police using force to clear peaceful anti-fracking protestors.
Netpol, the network for police monitoring, have produced a fantastic run-down of the excessive use of force employed at Balcombe this weekend.… Read More
Police colluded with blacklisting agency by shopping union activists.
When articles like this come out, the revulsion you feel at the absolute hypocrisy of the police force is almost surpassed by the frustration that the media give the story such little coverage.… Read More
Guardian releases damning data on police taser use.
The Guardian has published its detailed report into the uses and abuses on tasers by British police officers, most importantly the firing of taser shots into victims’ chests.… Read More
DTRTP National Conference - ‘Austerity, Injustice and the Power of Protest’ - 27 October
FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE HERE
We’re really excited to announce our national conference, scheduled for 27th October.… Read More
More dodgy undercover policing - ‘Jason Bishop’
From NetPol - read the article here.
Despite going to many organising meetings, Jason was never on the front line at protests, always preferring to be either driving or hanging around the edges.… Read More