protests | Novara Media

Tag: protests

A man with shoulder-length brown curly hair, wearing a great sweater, black bomat trousers and brown boots, stands against a grassy background

Report: This Protester Committed No Crime But Is Going to Prison Anyway

by 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.

A protester holds a placard picturing Jina Amini during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, at Federation Square in Melbourne, Thursday, September 29, 2022. Protests have continued to rage in Iran over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, with demonstrators calling for the end of clerical rule. (AAP Image/James Ross) NO ARCHIVINGNo Use Australia. No Use New Zealand.

Analysis: Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini Was Kurdish And That Matters

by 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.

A woman in a protest crowd holds up a sign that reads: 'Another Jew opposing settler colonialism from Jerusalem to Gaza'

Opinion: Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine

by 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.

Official portrait of Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Report: If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It

by 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

by 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.

A protester in London opposing Poland's abortion ban

Opinion: Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests Are Radicalising a Generation

by 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

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

by 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

by 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

by 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

by 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.

Black Lives Matter protests are being framed as a public health threat. In the long and racist history of policing, justifying state brutality with a claim to be protecting ‘the public’ from contagion - by disease, drugs, or an epidemic of looting - is nothing new, writes Eleanor Penny.

With Bernie Sanders out of the presidential race and the country exploding into civil unrest, can progressive candidates respond to the revolutionary fervour of the American people? Freddie Stuart and Aaron White take a look in the first instalment of our series on the US 2020 elections.

Tag: protests

Analysis: Jîna ‘Mahsa’ Amini Was Kurdish And That Matters

by Meral Çiçek

Opinion: Four Antisemites Won’t Stop Me Supporting Palestine

by Rivkah Brown

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

by Anna Lart Greene

Live: Police Violence at Third Bristol Protest

Live: Policing Bill Sparks Riots in Bristol

Report: If We Can’t Change the Law, We’ll Break It

by Rivkah Brown

Report: A Doctor on Living Through a Month of Deadly Protests in Myanmar

by Charlotte England

Opinion: Poland’s Pro-Choice Protests Are Radicalising a Generation

by Ana Oppenheim

Analysis: How Protesters in Thailand Are Leading the Struggle Against Authoritarianism

by Andrew MacGregor Marshall

Report: The Police Are Using Coronavirus to Crack Down on Protest

by Rivkah Brown

Analysis: ‘Fuck the Algorithm’: How A-Level Students Have Shown the Future of Protest

by James Meadway

Opinion: Trump’s Attack on ‘Anarchists’ Is Just the Latest Red Scare

by Ruth Kinna, Matthew S Adams and Thomas Swann

Black Britannia: Today’s Anti-Racist Movement Must Remember Britain’s Black Radical History

by Bryan Knight

Live: Colston Has Fallen

Opinion: Filth: Disease, Drugs or Looting – Brutal Policing is Always Framed As Protecting ‘the Public’ From Infection

by Eleanor Penny

Report: Racist Policing Accelerated During the Pandemic. Mounting Protests Could See It Get Even Worse

by Sophie K Rosa

Analysis: Beyond Bernie: Amidst National Unrest, Can Progressive Candidates Salvage the Democratic Party?

by Freddie Stuart and Aaron White