Diane Abbott MP: The Public Order Bill has no place in a democratic society
‘This is a government that does not tire of lecturing the rest of the world on democracy and human rights, and yet this is Bill creates two classes of citizens.’
‘This is a government that does not tire of lecturing the rest of the world on democracy and human rights, and yet this is Bill creates two classes of citizens.’
28,000 people are locked up each year with no release dates
Rodney King, 1965-2012, wanted to be remembered for the short speech he made, appealing for an end to the LA race riots of the early 1990s.
Alex Hern covers the latest smear-job by the Telegraph against peaceful protest; the message is clear: If you aren’t in bed by midnight, you can’t protest.
Mike Morgan-Giles shows how the reaction to Occupy London is emblematic of the response to protest in the UK today.
The name of Rosa Parks is known wherever the American civil rights struggles of the sixties is retold. But who has heard of Claudette Colvin? Nine months before Rosa Park, Claudette Colvin also refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.