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The government has just announced new legislation restricting #FreedomToProtest. The Police, Crime and Sentencing bill introduces a raft of repressive changes + buried in it are new powers for policing protests

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This vindictive piece of legislation comes from Priti Patel's fury over the Black Lives Matter uprisings, +the struggle to police XR protests. These new police powers will affect all of our movements.

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Protests are disruptive. That's the POINT of them. But proposed changes to the law make it an offence to cause "annoyance" or "inconvenience". That's most forms of public protest actions.....

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The Government are so angry about the toppling of the #Colston Statue by #BLM protesters that they've upped the penalty for damaging statues to a maximum ten year sentence.

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And it's not just big public protests; one-person demonstrations will be criminalised if they create "noise", "unease", or "distress".

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In a throwback to the Blair years, the area around Parliament will be a "controlled zone" with extra powers for the police to shut down protests if they're impeding traffic.

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This new bill is a threat to all UK social movements that take to the streets. That's why we've developed an alternative vision in our Charter for Freedom of Assembly rights to protect the #FreedomToProtest

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