@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-09-02 14:02:15
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-09-02 14:02:15
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-10-05 08:42:00
Content warning: London protests / police / law / proposed mask ban
"After Saturday’s protest, the chair of the Metropolitan police federation said officers policing protests in London were “emotionally and physically exhausted”.
"Paula Dodds said: “Enough is enough. Our concentration should be on keeping people safe at a time when the country is on heightened alert from a terrorist attack. And instead officers are being drawn in to facilitate these relentless protests.”"
Well that's the government's fault for having completely unnecessarily created this conflict and brought the law into disrepute!
No wonder the police are "emotionally exhausted", when they have to keep on arresting peaceful old people like their grandparents, and being mocked for it! Not what any of them probably imagined their job was gonna be!
But this to me is the worst bit of news in that article:
"The planned new power follows protest-related measures in the crime and policing bill going through parliament, which bans the possession of face coverings ... at protests"
Planning to ban masks, in the time of covid. Denial or what.
I wonder if they've done an "impact assessment" for that bit of the law, because it certainly would disproportionately affect people disabled with Long Covid & similar things.
#UKLaw #masks #London #protests #Palestine #CovidIsntOver #KeirStarmer
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-09-21 00:37:41
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-10-19 08:15:46
#TheAtlantic has compiled a series of photos showing #protests against Darth Donald #Trump and his administration that have taken place over the last few days. While the crowd was small compared to those supporting…
@ncoca@social.coop2025-09-02 04:55:39
#Gig #workers are playing a central role in #Indonesia's #protests. It's no accident - there's been innovativ…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-16 08:34:17
Content warning: heartening interviews with the over-60s getting arrested
“I’ve been a very law-abiding citizen and very respectful of authority all my life but I knew I had to do this and it was my duty to do this.”
- Deborah Hinton, 81
“The focus shouldn’t be on Palestine Action. The focus should be on what the government isn’t doing for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.”
- Father John McGowan, 75
“As a former officer in the British army, I am horrified that the government is misusing our armed forces to be complicit in the genocide rather than to end it.”
- Chris Romberg, 75
“Palestine Action’s methods sit very uneasily with me. It’s difficult to accept that vandalism is the only way to go. However, I feel we have to do something and I support their stand against genocide.”
- Richard Whitmore-Jones, 74
“The policeman said: ‘You’re a bit heavy.’ He had to call one of his friends over to help carry me. I thought that was a bit of a liberty.”
- Trevelyan Evans, 64
#PalestineAction #protests #UKLaw #Gaza #Palestine #Israel