Peter Bradwell
Researcher
Peter Bradwell is a researcher at Demos. He is interested in digital identity, technology and the ways that information and knowledge is shared...
at 9:23am
on Wednesday, 24th January 2007
Brian Haw is the possibly heroic megaphone-clenching peace protestor whose lone vigil outside the gates of Parliament has lasted over five and a half years. That's a long time to hold a protest for. According to Indymedia, on Monday, following the latest attempt to remove him or limit what he can do and display, he successfully had the case against him (that he breached the conditions placed on his demonstration) dropped. There's a BBC story about it here.
These hijinks stem from the SOCPA (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act) legislation that, amongst other things, bans unauthorised protest within the vicinity of Parliament. Hilariously, this particular bit of law was pretty much designed solely to remove Brian but has so far only squeezed him down to three square metres.
If you want to do something to challenge the bit of SOCPA that, quite bizarrely, limits free assembly and the airing of public opinion, then one thing might be to pester your MP about this proposed amendment.
Mark Wallinger also has a display at Tate Britain right now called 'State Britain'. He has recreated Haw's original display, and it looks like an interesting bit of work.
Brian Haw is the possibly heroic megaphone-clenching peace protestor whose lone vigil outside the gates of Parliament has lasted over five and a half years. That's a long time to hold a protest for. According to Indymedia, on Monday, following the latest attempt to remove him or limit what he can do and display, he successfully had the case against him (that he breached the conditions placed on his demonstration) dropped. There's a BBC story about it here.These hijinks stem from the SOCPA (Serious Organised Crime and Police Act) legislation that, amongst other things, bans unauthorised protest within the vicinity of Parliament. Hilariously, this particular bit of law was pretty much designed solely to remove Brian but has so far only squeezed him down to three square metres.
If you want to do something to challenge the bit of SOCPA that, quite bizarrely, limits free assembly and the airing of public opinion, then one thing might be to pester your MP about this proposed amendment.
Mark Wallinger also has a display at Tate Britain right now called 'State Britain'. He has recreated Haw's original display, and it looks like an interesting bit of work.
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