Feb 1, 2022 | Domestic Extremism, Don't Be On A Database, Protest
Protesters at a Swansea demonstration (photo credit: BLM Swansea) My name is Lowri Davies, and I’m an organiser with Black Lives Matter Swansea. My role is purely organisational; I plan protests, speakers, and sound systems, do the graphics for them, and then get the...
Oct 26, 2021 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
Photo credit Dimitris Legakis/The Guardian South Wales Police have been exposed while unsuccessfully attempting to recruit Lowri Davies, one of the co-founders of the Swansea Black Lives Matter group, as a police informant. This is the first publicly recorded instance...
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 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...
Jan 15, 2020 | Domestic Extremism, Protest
This post was first published by New Internationalist on 15 January 2020 Extinction Rebellion is not the first protest group to find itself labelled a threat because of alleged ‘extreme or violent ideologies’ and sadly it is unlikely to be the last. Over the...
