ACFM: Trip 39: Protest
What did an A-to-B march ever achieve? The gang consider the necessity and futility of protest, with music from Lowkey and Dylan.
Tag: protests
Report: Former Amnesty Official Arrested for Satirical Placard
Rivkah Brown
Aisha Jung was arrested for holding a placard that described Israel as an ‘apartheid cuntry’ while attending a pro-Palestine demo with her husband and sons.
Report: Donald Tusk Gives Polish Leftists the Ick. They Might Have to Get Over It
Ana Oppenheim
On Sunday, half a million people took to the streets of Warsaw to hear Donald Tusk rail against the government. The march presented a dilemma for the Polish left, torn between its disdain for continental Thatcherites like Tusk and its hatred of the far-right incumbents. Ana Oppenheim reports.
Report: This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway
Denise Laura Baker & Josie Argyle
On 23 September, climate activist Elliott Cuciurean was sentenced to 268 days in prison. He hadn't committed any crime, but instead had breached HS2's injunction. Denise Laura Baker and Josie Argyle report on the privatisation of protest policing.
Analysis: Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini Was Kurdish And That Matters
Meral Çiçek
Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini’ was Kurdish, as are the chants of liberation echoing around the world in her name. This context can't be removed from her life, death and legacy.
Opinion: Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine
Rivkah Brown
Our struggle against Israeli apartheid cannot be derailed by the men who drove down Finchley Road on Sunday threatening Jewish people, writes Rivkah Brown.
Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.
Novara Live: Police Violence at Third Bristol Protest
On Friday Bristol saw its third protest against the policing bill in 6 days. We speak to Adam Cantwell-Corn, co-founder of The Bristol Cable, who reported from the scene.
Novara Live: Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol
The Tories' draconian policing bill sparks riots in Bristol. Michael Walker and Ash Sarkar discuss the fallout from the protests, and the utility of riots.
Report: If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It
Rivkah Brown
On Saturday, police banned a vigil for Sarah Everard - hundreds turned out anyway. The new policing bill may threaten our right to protest, but we already know how to resist. Rivkah Brown reports on a resurgence in civil disobedience.
Report: A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar
Charlotte England
Police shot and killed at least 18 people in Myanmar on Sunday in the deadliest crackdown on protests since the military staged a coup d'etat on 1 February. Novara Media asked a doctor and activist what the last month's been like.
Opinion: Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests Are Radicalising a Generation
Ana Oppenheim
Attempts to outlaw abortion in Poland appear to have strengthened the country's growing pro-choice movement, writes Ana Oppenheim. Women across the country, many of whom never before saw themselves as activists, are learning what it means to defy authority and stand up for their rights.
Analysis: How Protesters in Thailand Are Leading the Struggle Against Authoritarianism
Andrew MacGregor Marshall
With tens of thousands of protestors taking to the streets every day in Thailand, Andrew MacGregor Marshall traces how the country has become a new front line in a global struggle challenging authoritarianism, inequality and restrictions of freedom of speech.
Report: The Police Are Using Coronavirus to Crack Down on Protest
Rivkah Brown
Police are forcing organisers to cancel demonstrations or face arrest and a £10,000 fine under new Covid laws. Activists say 'unworkable restrictions' and harsh sanctions pose an escalating threat to the right to protest. Rivkah Brown reports.
Analysis: ‘Fuck the Algorithm’: How A-Level Students Have Shown the Future of Protest
James Meadway
Aside from their much deserved success in forcing the government to ditch algorithmically-moderated A-level grades, protesting students have signalled an increasingly salient area of politicisation. James Meadway takes a closer look at the use and abuse of data within our systems of governance.
Opinion: Trump’s Attack on ‘Anarchists’ Is Just the Latest Red Scare
Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann
The spectre of anarchism, invoked by Donald Trump and repeated without challenge in the mainstream media, reinforces the strategic demonisation of movements like Black Lives Matter that expose and mobilise against persistent injustices, write Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann.
Black Britannia: Today’s Anti-Racist Movement Must Remember Britain’s Black Radical History
Bryan Knight
50 years on from the Mangrove Nine Trial, Bryan Knight reflects on the history of the British Black Panther movement, explaining why today’s activists should look back at their revolutionary forerunners. This is the first article in our new series Black Brittannia, which reflects on the country's Black radical history.
Novara Live: Colston Has Fallen
Edward Colston Has Fallen. Now, can the #BlackLivesMatter movement force Britain to face up to its colonial past and the racism that exists to this day?