Defend the Right to Protest – National Conference

credit – Peter Marshall

by: Defend the Right to Protest
published: September 2012

AUSTERITY, INJUSTICE & THE POWER OF PROTEST
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Sunday 14th October, 2012, 11:30am – 5:30pm, University of London Union, Malet Street.

Defend the Right to Protest 2012 National Conference

Across the world people are resisting austerity. They also have to confront violent tactics by the police and the draconian use of the law.

In Britain students demonstrating against fees were subject to kettling and mounted horse charges. In Quebec the authorities responded to an all out strike with emergency laws.

Governments are attempting to undermine effective protest at a time of unprecedented cuts. Faced with public sector strikes, Coalition ministers threatened to introduce more hard line anti-trade union laws. Such attacks also take place against a wider context of injustice and clampdown involving stop and search, police racism and deaths in custody. They include the use of protester “ASBOs”, pre-crime arrests and other infringements of civil liberties as seen around the Royal Wedding and the Olympics.

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