April 2006 Archives

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Beating the Bounds WiKi:

On 1 August 2005 Section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) came into force, making any protest in the 'designated area' - up to 1km around Parliament - illegal unless police permission has first been received.

On 1 May 2006 we will be BEATING THE BOUNDS of this massive protest exclusion zone against our loss of freedoms of association and expression.

We will assemble at 12 noon in Trafalgar Square on 1 May 2006

ON THIS TRADITIONAL DAY OF COMING TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE AND UPHOLD OUR RIGHTS, LETS DEFEND OUR FREEDOM TO PROTEST WITHOUT POLICE PERMISSION

COME AND TAKE PART IN THIS FUN, NOISY, CREATIVE AND PEACEFUL CHALLENGE TO AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY

See here for a reports/photos from a previous Beating the Bounds demo:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/12/329275.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/12/329150.html
Lets make this next one really big and really noisy!

A map of the exclusion zone can be seen here:
http://www.met.police.uk/publicorder/images/Section_132_7_boundary.jpg

A detailed description of the boundary of the 'designated area' can be seen here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2005/20051537.htm

For more details on SOCPA and the protests against it see:
http://www.peopleincommon.org
http://www.parliamentprotest.org.uk
http://www.pledgebank.com/protest

Also see Is the SOCPA Designated Area actually bigger than we have assumed ?

The Observer has a snippet of Government spin:

Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, will use a lecture to the London School of Economics tomorrow to counter what he will describe as 'the myth' that Labour has assumed police state powers.

Critics cite examples such as a new law forbidding demonstrations outside Parliament without prior police permission. Clarke is expected to argue that freedom is alive and kicking, with 157 demonstrations held there since last August.

No ! It is the number of peaceful demonstrations which have not been politically vetted by the Police and the State which is the evidence of freedom.

If freedom is not being curtailed, then why have these peaceful demonstrators been arrested, charged and convicted ?

"The News We Deserve"

Speaker: Charles Clarke
Date: Monday 24 April 2006
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Unless you have a ticket already you will probably not get in, but given the number journalism students and media in the audience, it may well be worth visiting the Three Tuns student bar next door.

Map and directions

It is ironic that Charles Clarke is lecturing the London School of Economics given the personal attacks he has made on their academic staff who dared to criticise his inept and authoritarian ID Card scheme in their well researched Identity Project report

This weekend sees a peaceful series of events plannedby the PeopleInCommon Sunday picnic demonstrators, to protet against the SOCPA Designated Area loss of our traditional freedoms and liberties, with a series of events this Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd April from Runnymede to Parliament Square on Saint George's Day.

April 22nd and 23rd Reclaim St George Weekend

Come and help us beat The Exclusion Zone around Parliament*

There are four main parts to the action:

[1] From 12 noon Saturday 22nd April Overnight Camp at Runnymede [where the Magna Carta was signed in 1215];

[2] From 1pm Sunday 23rd April Welcome Picnic/Party from 1pm at the Tibetan Peace Gardens at the Imperial War Museum;

[3] From 3pm Sunday 23rd April a non-demonstration march from there to Parliament Square [please dress up and bring blank placards and banners]; and

[4] From 4/5pm Sunday 23rd April Tea Party and Burning of [and game of cricket for the Ashes of] the Magna Carta and s132 of SOCPA*.

There is also being organised a morning picnic at St Georges Hill Weybridge, on the golf course at the site where the Diggers began their revolutionary commune.

More info on all this can be found below..

--- What's It All About

The idea behind this event is to challenge s132 of SOCPA*, do a fun action, learn a bit about English history and Reclaim St Georges Day - for better or for worse, the national day of England - from the far right, all [to quote Shakespeare**] 'in one fell swoop'.

And also to mark the weekend with an alternative 'Freedom Marathon' [the Flora Marathon is taking place on the 23rd too].

We want to use theatre and fun to highlight Tony Blair's cavalier approach to our ancient constitutional freedoms [as embodied in and developed through the Magna Carta of 1215] but also to invoke the best traditions of the civil rights movement, by placing our action firmly in historic context.

And we want it to be a celebration of our eccentricity and diversity, a way of reclaiming England's national day from the far right, a way of bringing together people from different backgrounds in common cause.

Standing up for rights and against authoritarianism. And having fun!

More info on each section is given below.

Greg Hands the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hammersmith and Fulham has had a reply to his Parliamentary Written Question:
House of Commons Written Answers for 18th April 2006:

Parliament Square (Demonstrations)

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many applications have been made for demonstrations in Parliament Square since 1 August 2005; and how many such applications were successful. [63890]

Paul Goggins: The Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police tells me that 141 applications have been made for demonstrations in Parliament Square and Whitehall between 1 August 2005 and 28 February 2006.

18 Apr 2006 : Column 324W

Authorisation was given for all applications. Under Section 134 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, the Commissioner must give authorisation for a demonstration for which written notice has been given.

An example of how stupid and ineffective the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 Designated Area law is, can be seen from today's demonstration by fathers' rights protestors who scaled part of Westminster Abbey, as reported by the BBC

Similar protests have been made by climbing up onto the Foreign Office parapet and by environmentalists climbing up St. Stephen's clock tower ("Big Ben"), both of which buildings are within the boundary of the Designated Area. Buckingham Palace is within the theoretical 1 kilometre maximum extent of the Designated Area, but not curretly within the boundary as laid down by Order.

However, none of these are actually part of the Designated Area since they are not "highways or pavements" and they are not a "public place" as defined by Section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

(b) "public place" means any highway or any place to which at the material time the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission,

The public areas of Westminster Abbey, where the tourists and religous worshipers congregate are covered by the Designated Area. Why should the Police have to decide whether a Religous service or ceremony in Westminster Abbey is or is not a Demonstration requiring prior written permission ?

All of these "climb up somewhere perilous on a public building" type publicity stunts have been in areas where the public does not have any "express or implied permission".

There is another section of the Act, Section 128 "Offence of trespassing on designated site", which can be used to Designate sites such as Crown Land or for National Security , but this has only been used so far to Designate some Military bases.and neither the Foreign Office, nor Buckingham Palace has yet been Designated.

Astonishingly, the Government has already amended this section of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 via the Terrorism Act 2006 Section 12 "Trespassing etc. on nuclear sites" , to also allow for the Designation of Civilian Nuclear sites (which are not owned by the Crown, having been semi privatised).

It has to be asked, what exactly have peaceful protests or demonstrations, even ones involving trespass, got to do with terrorism or with serious organised crime ?

Milan Rai has become the first person to be convicted of organising an unuthorised demonstration under the controversial Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 Section 132 Designated Area law around Parliament Square.

Milan has been fined £350 with £150 costs i.e. £500. He does not intend to pay and will try to appeal against this conviction.

Lifestyle Extra has a good report:

Peace activist refuses to pay fine

Wednesday, 12th April 2006, 13:06
Category: Crime and Punishment

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - A peace activist convicted under new laws banning unauthorised demonstrations near the Houses of Parliament today (Wed) vowed to go to prison rather than pay a fine.

Milan Rai, 40, escaped a jail sentence at Bow Street magistrates' court and was slapped with a £350 and £150 costs after he refused to obtain police permission for his demonstration next to the Cenotaph in Whitehall near the gates to Downing Street last year.

Outside the court today, Rai said: "I have no intention of paying the fine.

[...]

"I am prepared to go to prison over this, I'm not scared. I guess people are afraid of the unknown, but I have already been to jail and it becomes less daunting every time."

[...]

Today district Judge Nicholas Evans said Rai, who faced up to 51 weeks' imprisonment under the controversial new law, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, had known the consequences of protesting without a permit.

Maria Gallastegui seems to have won a victory against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 section 132 Designated Area law.

Victory for Maria 6 April 06:

Maria's retrial for taking part in an unauthorised demo was today thrown out of court!

Maria is one of Brian Haw's most stalwart supporters and was with Brian at his site as the 1 August demo against SOCPA was taking place on the adjacent green.

She was arrested when she went to advise someone at the demo with a megaphone that they would be arrested.

At the original trial the magistrate paid no regard to the fact that Maria was not part of the unauthorised demo and she was convicted but decided to appeal.

At the retrial at Southwark Crown Court the judges ruled there was no case to answer after the CPS had put forward its case, with very little evidence.

This case highlights what a thankless and impossible task the Metropolitan Police have in fairly and equally enforcing this stupid law.

Given the almost random way in which people are being arrested by the Police who only need "reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence has been committed", something which is entirely at the whim of an individual Police Officer, it is not clear that this case will have any effect on the behavioir of the Metropolitan Police.

It may give the Crown Prosecution Service some pause for thought when they decide whether or not to prosecute an arrestee.

The first appeal against a conviction under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 section 132 is scheduled for Thursday 6th April 2006 starting at 10 am.

Maria Gallastegui, one of Brian Haw's most committed supporters, is appealing against her conviction for demonstrating without authorisation and obstructing arrest at Southwark Crown Court, 1 English Grounds, London SE1 2HU, (by HMS Belfast) starting at 10 am.

Location Map

The BBC reports that Mark Barrett has been convicted of demonstarting unlawfully, under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, and has been fined £250.

UPDATE: It seems that Mark has also been landed with £250 of costs as well, i.e. £500 in total.

Mark says in an interview with BBC London, that he will not pay the fine, and is prepared to go to prison if necessary, to defy this bad law.

You can see a RealMedia video clip of the report on the BBC website..

The BBC London reporter Guy Smith did a "now I am outside the 'Exclusion Zone' , now I am inside it" piece at the southern end of Lambeth Bridge , with the Houses of Parlaiment in the background.. Actually, we think that he was within the Desiganted Area in both camera positions.

The graphic of the extent of the Designated Area (again referred to as the "Exclusion Zone") also managed to miss out the western loop around the MI5 amd Northern Ireland Office buildings.

There was stock footage of the violent Countryside Alliance demonstration which was, of course, one where only a section of the crowd turned violent on the day, partly due to the weak police presence at the time, something which could never have been predicted by the organisers, 6 days in advance. In contrast, there was footage of the weekly peaceful Sunday picnic in Parliament Square Gardens (which starts between 1pm and 1.30pm), showing nothing more violent than a cup of tea.

Another few soundbites from a Human Rights lawyer and overall quite reasonable publcity from the BBC - thanks for the link back to this website.

Will the Appeal Court Judges side with the plucky British underdog, or will they rule for the Kafkaueasque NuLabour politicised Police and Civil Service bureaucracy, who are wasting the taxpayers money on this legalistic persecution ?

Immediate press release
2 April 2006

HOME OFFICE APPEALS PARLIAMENT SQUARE PROTESTOR'S RIGHT TO STAY

Monday 3 April, 10am, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London

Brian Haw, the peace protestor who has been staging a continuous peace demonstration opposite Parliament for nearly 5 years, will again be attending court to hear the case against his presence in Parliament Square.

The Home Office and the Metropolitan Police are appealing a High Court judgement made in July last year which found that the law that had been passed specifically in order to remove him from Parliament Square did not apply to Mr Haw.

Mr Haw's demonstration had been seen as lawful since he won his first High Court victory in October 2005. [A] In 2005 the government included new measures within the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act to legally evict him.

However, when drafting the law, the government specified that demonstrations must have authorisation from the Metropolitan Commissioner before they 'start'. Mr Haw defence team argued in court that it was only in secondary legislation that continuous protests such as his were covered.

Despite hearing arguments from the Home Office that the intention was always to remove Mr Haw, the judges found that, because a criminal offence would be committed by breach of the new law with the penalty of up to a year in prison, there was "something sinister" about using secondary legislation to rewrite the law in this way. The judges found that the new law did not apply to Brian Haw and that he could continue his protest without authorisation from the police. [B]

The new law banning unauthorised protest within the Designated Area (up to 1km around Parliament) has been used to arrest those maintaining their right to freedom of speech since it came into force on 1 August 2005. There have been 11 convictions so far. [C]

CONTACT & INFORMATION:
Brian Haw will be outside the Royal Courts of Justice from 10am on 3 April.
There will be a demonstration in support of Mr Haw outside the Royal Courts of Justice from 10am.
For more information contact Emma Sangster, supporter of Brian Haw, 07791 486484, info@parliament-square.org.uk, www.parliament-square.org.uk

NOTES:
A. www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,4515616-103690,00.html

B. www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,,1539340,00.html

C. The provisions in question are sections 132-138 Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. See www.parliamentprotest.org.uk and www.parliament-square.org.uk/defendaction.htm for details of protests against the new law and arrests.


Parliament Square Peace Campaign
for supporters of Brian Haw and the right to protest
www.parliament-square.org.uk

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Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers and Protest Organisers

The hints and tips below are just as important to anybody organising a peaceful Protest near to Parliament Square, as they are to other people who might come under UK Government or Multinational Corpotation:

Please take the appropriate precautions if you are planning to blow the whistle on shadowy and powerful people in Government or commerce, and their dubious policies. The mainstream media and bloggers also need to take simple precautions to help preserve the anonymity of their sources e.g. see Spy Blog's Hints and Tips for Whistleblowers - or use this easier to remember link: http://ht4w.co.uk

BlogSafer - wiki with multilingual guides to anonymous blogging

Digital Security & Privacy for Human Rights Defenders manual, by Irish NGO Frontline Defenders.

Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide (.pdf - 31 pages), by the Citizenlab at the University of Toronto.

Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents - March 2008 version - (2.2 Mb - 80 pages .pdf) by Reporters Without Borders

Reporters Guide to Covering the Beijing Olympics by Human Rights Watch.

A Practical Security Handbook for Activists and Campaigns (v 2.6) (.doc - 62 pages), by experienced UK direct action political activists

Anonymous Blogging with Wordpress & Tor - useful step by step guide with software configuration screenshots by Ethan Zuckerman at Global Voices Advocacy. (updated March 10th 2009 with the latest Tor / Vidalia bundle details)

Convention on Modern Liberty - 28th Feb 2009

Convention on Modern Liberty - 28th Feb 2009
Convention on Modern Liberty - 28th Feb 2009

The Convention is being held in the Logan Hall and adjoining rooms at the Institute of Education in Bloomsbury, central London.

Address:

The Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL

There are video linked screenings or other parallel meetings being held across the UK in Belfast. Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff and Manchester.

Convention on Modern Liberty blog

Campaign Button Links

NO2ID  Campaign
NO2ID - opposition to the Home Office's Compulsory Biometric ID Card and National Identity Register centralised database.

UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign
UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign

link to www.peopleincommon.org

People in Common - weekly Picnics etc. in Parliament Square, every Sunday at about 1pm.

Save Parliament: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (and other issues)
Save Parliament - Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (and other issues)

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Campaign for the Freedom of Information

Please help us to find this man! He was arrested(?) in Parliament Square on 1st August 2005

This man was one of the very first people arrested in Parliament Square on 1st August 2005, but he has apparently disappeared.

link to SilentProtest.org.uk
Silent Protest - a web photo gallery "encouraging people to stage a virtual, government un-sanctioned protest. All you need to do is get a picture of yourself, or your friends, within the protest free zone. Assume the pose (hand over mouth), aim and click."

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. repeal-SOCPA.info - useful background briefings for the Managing Protest around Parliament public consultation, and model letters to MPs etc.

About this blog

This web blog has been set up as an information resource and discussion area (please be polite in the comments) to help organise resistance to the restrictions on peaceful democratic demonstrations and protests, which have been enacted by law, in a wide Designated Area around Parliament Square in London.

It appears that in order to remove the peace protestor Brian Haw, who had been demonstrating continuously in Parliament Square, day and night, for over 10 years,(literally until his death in June 2011), the NuLabour Government overreacted, and granted themselves draconian and arbitrary powers, which affected the rights of all individual British citizens to lobby their Members of Parliament, or to walk in a vast Designated Area wearing a "political slogan" T-shirt, badge, rubber wristband etc. without first seeking prior written permission from the Police.

This is an affront to democracy and is not justified even on any spurious "climate of fear" alleged "security" grounds.

N.B. SOCPA ss128-132 is now repealed and replaced with less restictive laws, but there are still some peculiar restrictions and bylaws on protests around Parliament Square.

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Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 was rushed through, "on the nod", with minimal debate, during the undemocratic "wash up" process at the end of the last Parliament when the General Election had been called.

The bulk of the Act deals with the setting up of the Serious Organised Crime Agency, but there are also sections such as:

Section 110 Powers of Arrest

From 1st January 2006 this section makes any offence, no matter how minor, into an arrestable offence. Arrests by the police these days can mean taking 10 fingerprints and two palm prints, a DNA tissue sample and processing it into a digital "DNA fingerprint", forcing you to remove any facial coverings, (even those worn for religous purposes) to take photographs of your face etc. All of these items of personal data can then be retained forever, even if you are not charged, or any charges against you are dropped, or if you go to court and are found not guilty.

These new powers are regulated by the new statutory Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) Code of Practice G (.pdf)

Section 128 Trespass on a Designated Site - e.g. Crown Property or National Security

Sections 132 to 138 Demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament - the controversial restrictions in detail.

The Public Whip website has details of how the Members of the House of Commons voted on these controversial clauses.

Brian Haw

Veteran peace protestor Brian Haw was physically camped out in Parliament Square since 2nd June 2001 until his death in June 2011

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 sections 132 to 138 Designatd Area law seem to have been written to try to specifically suppress his protests, although, through sheer incompetence, the Government found that Brian Haw himself was initially exempt from some of it, since his protest started before the stupidly worded repressive legislation came into force, although a later High Court Appeal, at public exepnse, did apply the law to him.

See Parliament Square website for news and support details.

Write to politicians

Write To Them - identify and contact your local councillors, Members of Parliament, devolved Assembly members and Members of the European Parliament

You can also write to the Home Secretary David Blunkett Charles Clarke John Reid Jacqui Smith Alan Johnson Theresa May

You can send an email public.enquiries@ homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk or a letter to:

Rt. Hon. Theresa May MP
Home Secretary
c/o Direct Communications Unit
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF

Home Office Contact Us page

Designated Area

The current Designated Area is set out in:

Statutory Instrument 2005 No. 1537 The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Area) Order 2005

Read more about the Designated Area in our category archive.

The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 section 132 to 138 have been repealed by the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 Part 3 on the Statute Book, but not yet Commenced by Order). This replaces the Designated Area with a much smaller Controlled Area - just Parliament Square Gardens and the surrounding pavements.

Mass Lone Demonstrations

Comedian Mark Thomas's website has details of Mass Lone Demonstrations which legally show up the absurdity of this law, and the bureaucracy involved in enforcing it. These multiple independent one person demonstrations take place on the third Wednesday of the month, from 5pm - 7.30pm within the Designated Area (often in Parliament Square, but not exclusively so)

Meet on the second Wednesday of each month outside Charing Cross police station (located at Agar Street, London, WC2N 4JP - see the map) any time between: 5.30 pm -7.30pm to hand in your Metropolitan Police SOCPA forms (download the optional Word or PDF forms from the Metroplitan Police) or your own personal Written Applications for Prior Permission.

Regular Protests in Parliament Square

Parliament Square - supporting the long running, 24/7, peace protest by Brian Haw in Parliament Square

Global Women's Strike who held "open mike" loudspeaker protests every Wednesday for over two and a half years, which are now banned.

London Critical Mass - group bicycle ride on the last Friday of every month, for the last 10 years, which often strays into the Designated Area.

The People's Commons Meeting / Tea Party / Picnic-Protest is now meeting every Sunday afternoon starting at 1 for 1.30pm on the Green in Parliament Square. wiki - new website PeopleInCommon.org

Website Links

Home Office - "Not fit for purpose. It is inadequate in terms of its scope, it is inadequate in terms of its information technology, leadership, management, systems and processes" - Home Secretary John Reid. 23rd May 2006.

Metropolitan Police Service

Metropolitan Police Authority - meant democratically to supervise the Metropolitan Police Service

Independent Police Complaints Commission

United Kingdom Parliament - Palace of Westminster, House of Lords, House of Commons etc.

Booking Parliament Square - Greater London Authority booking forms, terms and conditions for filming and photography for Parliament Square - "The GLA does not grant permission for demonstration, rallies and public meetings on Parliament Square Gardens".

They Work For You - a more user friendly version of the House of Commons Hansard

Pledgebank pledge:

"I will form part of a human chain around the Westminster no protest zone but only if 6,000 other people will join in."

Repeal-SOCPA-Info has useful briefing material for the Public Consultation into the laws restricting demonstrations, marches and assemblies, sample letters to MPs etc..

Blog Links

Spy Blog - Privacy and Security and Civil liberties campaigning

Mayor of London Blog - unnofficial comments on the Mayor of London and Greater London Assembly

Fuel Crisis Blog - Petrol at £1 per litre ! Protest !

Bloggerheads graphics of the 1km zone and the actual Designated Area

Charity Sweet - who has been harrassed for reading a copy of the Independent newspaper outside Downing Street etc.

BBC Travel Jam Cams

BBC Radio London has some links to Traffic Monitoring CCTV cameras, which they publish every 5 or 10 minutes, not usually in real time.

Whenever there is an "incident" or a march or demonstration, these online images are deliverately censored i.e. "not available for operational reasons", This is despite the images being of too low a resolution to identify anybody, and, the effect of not diverting traffic away from the incident, which should be the whole point of the online Traffic Cam images in the first place.

Whitehall / Parliament Square - this camera view sometimes shows Brian Haw's peace camp, and the "temporary" GLA fence around Parliament Square Gardens (removed >then rebuilt)

Northumberland Avenue / Victoria Embankment

Trafalgar Square (on the edge of the Designated Area)