Demos

Theme : parliament

News from Westminster 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... from : petebradwell 24th January 2007
Can I Tell You You're Wrong Here? Got any spare time next Thursday evening? Have anything you want to get off your chest?Then you could do worse than involving yourself in this heartwarming and ingenious plan to play around with the ridiculous SOCPA legislation over the next week. That way you can express yourself right in front of the big cheeses in Parliament.As the Rachel From North London blog highlights, the scheme - which I think is led by Mark Thomas - is to get as many individual protests happening in Parliament Square... from : petebradwell 23rd August 2006