On 21st April 2023, Extinction Rebellion brought 1000s to protest peacefully outside the Houses of Parliament for the Big One – a demand to end to the fossil fuel era and for a citizen-led transformation towards a fair society that includes reparations.
After a “winter of discontent” that saw thousands gathered at picket lines and demonstrations, and hundreds of pages spent evaluating and criticising the tactics of protests in our streets or our museums, protest – and its power – is in the air.
What are the demands of the Big One? What is changing in how the British state interacts with protestors and organisers? Are we under threat?
On this episode of It’s Bloody Complicated we brought together Miranda Irwin a relationship builder from XR, David Mead, a legal academic specialising in the regulation of protest and dissent, and Nick Dearden, the director of Global Justice Now to talk about the power of protest.
Recorded live April 11th, 6pm.
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