Solidarity Statement with Jan Goodey, academic, activist, and political prisoner

Dec 8, 2022 | Comment

We the undersigned academics express our solidarity with jailed academic and activist Jan Goodey.  Last week Jan was sentenced to 6 months in prison for his role in causing disruption to the M25 motorway in November 2022 as part of a Just Stop...

Voices of Bristol defendants sentenced today: Tyler Overall

Nov 11, 2022 | Comment

On 11th November, three people were sentenced for their participation in the Bristol uprisings against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act on 21st March 2021. While many cases are still awaiting sentence or are going through the Courts, at least 15 people...

Stay Aggravated in the Permacrisis

Nov 2, 2022 | Aggravated Activism, Comment

It will come as little of a surprise to most of us that ‘permacrisis’ – the feeling of living through “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events” – has been chosen as Collins...

Justice for the Bristol protesters!

Oct 28, 2022 | Comment, Protest

Campaign statement by Justice for the Bristol Protesters Justice for the Bristol Protesters (JBP) is a group of parents, friends and supporters of those charged with riot and given harsh prison sentences as a result of being involved with the protest against the...

Anti-royal arrests: the after-effects

Sep 19, 2022 | Comment

Following the recent publicity surrounding anti-monarchy protest arrests, Netpol is publishing this guest piece from Hannah Chutzpah who was arrested during the royal wedding in 2011. As the post highlights, while this type of repression is appalling, it is nothing...

COMMENT: police ‘not knowing’ whether protest is permitted is deliberate – and it has to end

Sep 15, 2022 | Comment, Protest

There has been considerable press interest in the fairly small number of arrests (or threats of arrests) of anti-monarchists since the Queen’s death on 8 September. Protests have been nothing quite as dramatic as the hundreds who gathered outside of Buckingham Palace...