Counter-terrorism police list that included Extinction Rebellion was shared across government, not just by the regional police unit in the south-east theguardian.com/environment/20…
Initially, counter-terrorism police said this document an “error of judgment” and “was produced at a local level”. This was a lie.
It was sent to the Home Office, Department for Education, NHS England, MOD, HM Prison Service, Probation Service, Ofsted and 20 local authorities
It was sent to the Home Office, Department for Education, NHS England, MOD, HM Prison Service, Probation Service, Ofsted and 20 local authorities
These include Milton Keynes, Slough, Bracknell Forest, Reading, Wokingham, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Southampton, Portsmouth, the Isle Of Wight, Brighton and Hove, Medway, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, Hampshire, East Sussex, West Sussex and Kent.
If you live in these areas and are involved in XR or one of the groups named in the guidelines, you can assume local authority safeguarding teams will still describe your cause as "extremist" long after apologies and reassurances have been issued.
Ask the anti-fracking movement.
Ask the anti-fracking movement.
Over three years ago, the Home Office confirmed that opposition to fracking was no longer seen as “an indicator of vulnerability to extremism”. In October 2019, Surrey County Council was continuing to label anti-fracking protests as extremism drillordrop.com/2019/10/09/cam…
