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"Campaign of the weekParliament Square Picnickers
Tuesday September 20, 2005
The GuardianHow many campaigns are fought with tea cups? The Parliament Square Picnickers urge supporters to bring food, croquet, and bubbles: unusual weapons with which to wage war on what they call an infringement of free speech.
They are picnicking, dressed as suffragettes, Keystone Cops, or Jedis, every Sunday on Parliament Green, in Westminster, in protest against new laws that make it illegal, under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, to protest within a kilometre of parliament if prior consent has not been sought from the police.
The picnickers regard this as silencing their right to protest. So they have set up the People's Commons ("reclaiming the Commons for a DIY non-hierarchical form of democracy"), and will be holding session, along with the regular banner-painting classes - the banners are not being used, they are just being prepared for a non-specified protest elsewhere - and the picnics, every Sunday if the weather holds out.
To sum up the threat this group poses to British lives, we quote its website: "Let's try to get the Hare Krishnas involved as they bring seriously good vibes and nice food too.".
For more information, visit www1.atwiki.com/picnic "