Nov 23, 2020 | Protest, Rights
PHOTO: Shutterstock A survey of campaigning groups conducted by Netpol shows overwhelming support for protesters retaining a right to have their privacy even when they are on the streets, along with a firm rejection of police treating civil disobedience and direct...
Oct 29, 2020 | Support Us
THIS IS A RE-ADVERTISEMENT FOR THIS POSITION Netpol (the Network for Police Monitoring), is expanding. We need an exceptional and excellent communicator with digital skills to engage with grass-roots campaigns across Britain. Netpol is seeking to significantly grow...
Sep 10, 2020 | Comment, Domestic Extremism, Protest
Extinction Rebellion banners on the streets of London. PHOTO: Splento This opinion piece first appeared on The Canary website on 9 September Whether you agree with their politics or not, it’s really no surprise that with one very effective protest,...
Sep 7, 2020 | Protest, Rights
In Britain, there are laws that are supposed to protect our civil liberties – specifically the Human Rights Act 1998, which has often proven extremely effective as a means of challenging in court injustices by the state that violates our rights. This may go a long way...
Sep 1, 2020 | Domestic Extremism
The Green Party peer Jenny Jones with Netpol outside of New Scotland Yard, February 2018 After years of campaigning by Netpol, policing in Britain has at last decided to abandon the “domestic extremism” label Twelve months after Netpol revealed the decision of the...
Aug 26, 2020 | Protest, Rights
PHOTO: Splento From 1 September, Extinction Rebellion (XR) have called their latest series of actions focusing on Parliament in London and on protests in Cardiff and Manchester. Serious concerns about the Metropolitan Police’s operation during last October’s XR...
Aug 12, 2020 | Support Us
Netpol (the Network for Police Monitoring), is expanding. We need an exceptional and excellent communicator with digital skills to engage grass-roots campaigns across Britain. Netpol wants you to help us grow our digital reach, fundraising and campaigns through...
Jun 15, 2020 | Domestic Extremism
PHOTO: Shutterstock PRESS RELEASE The Chief Constable of Kent Police has this year paid a cash settlement to an anarchist writer and organiser who they had stopped and interrogated under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act. On 19th May 2013, Tom Anderson (a pseudonym to...
