SilentProtest.org.uk.is a new protest web gallery website
This site was launched in June 2006 to protest the government's removal of the right to protest within a vaguely defined area that includes the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square - traditionally a common place along any protest route.
Trafalgar Square is within the "1 kilometre in a straight line from the nearest point in Parliament Square" possible zone, but is currently excluded in the Designated Area The exact extent of the boundary of the Designated Area is open to dispute see:
Is the SOCPA Designated Area actually bigger than we have assumed ?
While the right to protest may not be entirely removed (you may request permission to do so, subject to any conditions), the fact that people can no longer freely assemble needs remarking upon. No longer do the government (any government) need to run the risk of being seen to ignore protests - now they can simply ignore the request to protest.So how to protest the removal of the right to protest? How to protest against the removal of freedoms when those freedoms removed are the ones guaranteeing the freedom to protest?
In what may possibly be seen as a daft move, we're encouraging people to stage a virtual, goverment-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.
Send them here with your comments and we'll post them to join the rest of the people in this country who feel that enough is enough. And get to feel a little bit naughty by taking part in a protest that at least bends a stupid rule, if not quite breaks it...
Send, and request information via: info@silentprotest.org.uk
Photos should go to: photos@silentprotest.org.uk
N.B. read the Image Guidlines and the Submission Terms and condition, before submitting a photo image.
If you want to remain anonymous, then make sure that you have removed or anonymised any Meta Data which your digital camera might have embedded in the images.
Hi - thanks for the linkage!
Re: Trafalgar Square - I realised on Friday (just after committing the site to the net) that I'd left that in without checking it... my revised copy says only the area around Parliament Square... bit of a schoolboy error but hopefully I've at least got rid of all the spelling mistakes...
Kind regards,
Irving