Kicking off our human rights workshops is the right to protest. With the recent passing of the Public Order Bill, we look at how legislation has impacted the right to protest and how free-speech remains vital for a democratic society.

Date: 3rd August 2023
Time: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location: HU2.38/39 Hugh Aston Building, DMU
Entry : FREE

Use our Eventbrite link to book: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-gazette-free-human-rights-workshops-tickets-682192204247?aff=oddtdtcreator&ref=greatcentralgazette.org

#WhatsOnLeicester #FreeWorkshop #HumanRights #PublicOrderBill #Leicester

The Right to Protest

Get ready for The Gazette: Human Rights Workshops! Free and interactive workshops running from August-October, in the heart of Leicester.

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There's a lot of consternation on The Bird about #Labour refusing to block the #Tories reinserting the most aggressive anti-#protest sections to the Public Order Bill, because supposedly the #Lords doing so would be 'anti-democratic' (even though they were the ones to block it).

But when you work out that all political parties and 'politicians' who are permitted to hold any 'power' by the ruling class are there solely to serve them, everything becomes clear. (+2🔽)

#PublicOrderBill #ukpol

“Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”
Terry Pratchett; The Truth
#DiscWorld #BaronessJones #FatalMotion #PublicOrderBill #HoL #TorySubversion #ToriesDestroyingDemocracy
'Where the hell is UK media?' Fatal motion tabled as outrage over Public Order Bill grows

"This is probably the angriest film I’ve ever made and I make no excuses for my rage", filmmaker Peter Stefanovic said.

The London Economic

“What is the point of Parliament if a Minister can just ignore the outcome of debates and votes by imposing draconian laws on the public?"

#EverydayFascism
#TheNastyParty
#PublicOrderBill

https://greenworld.org.uk/article/baroness-jenny-jones-tables-fatal-motion-against-public-order-bill

Baroness Jenny Jones tables ‘Fatal Motion’ against Public Order Bill

The Green Party’s Baroness Jenny Jones has tabled a ‘Fatal Motion’ to stop the government from overturning a decision in Lords on the Public Order Bill.

Green World
Gary Lineker | 'They do Stuff Knowing they'll be Locked Up' | 24 May 2023 | Just Stop Oil #shorts

YouTube
Ryan Coogan: It might be rude of protesters to try to disrupt the coronation – but I’d die in the last ditch for their right to do so | The Independent
#Protestors
#Coronation
#Britishness
#Democracy
#British
#Republic
#AntiMonarchy
#ProtestGroups
#PublicNuisance
#ProtestBans
#PublicOrderBill
#King
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronation-police-king-charles-protest-b2333836.html
Protesting the coronation is as British as the coronation itself

Protest is a fundamental part of being British – because democracy is a fundamental part of living here

The Independent
'UN Human Rights Chief urges #UK to reverse ‘deeply troubling’ Public Order Bill'
27 April 2023
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/04/un-human-rights-chief-urges-uk-reverse-deeply-troubling-public-order-bill
'GENEVA (27 April 2023) - The #PublicOrderBill which has now been passed by Parliament in the United Kingdom, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international #humanrights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Thursday.'
UN Human Rights Chief urges UK to reverse ‘deeply troubling’ Public Order Bill

GENEVA (27 April  2023) - The Public Order Bill, which has now been passed by Parliament in the United Kingdom, is deeply troubling legislation that is incompatible with the UK’s international human rights obligations regarding people’s rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned on Thursday.

OHCHR

RT @jayneb64: @RichardBurgon @Hugorelly And yet @UKLabour peers were told to abstain on #PublicOrderBill and @DavidLammy has said you’ll be ‘too busy’ to repeal. Labour[sic] will do nothing to improve our lives. https://t.co/gRPcTw7nNI

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/catherinerowett/status/1655484943516966912

Jayne Doherty 🇵🇸 on Twitter

“@RichardBurgon @Hugorelly And yet @UKLabour peers were told to abstain on #PublicOrderBill and @DavidLammy has said you’ll be ‘too busy’ to repeal. Labour[sic] will do nothing to improve our lives.”

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