2000 mass lone demonstrations on Saturday 21st April within the SOCPA Designated Area around Parliament Square
The Mark Thomas website has details of a planned set of 2000 demonstrations in one day, on Saturday 21st April 2007, within the Designated Area around Parliament Square and beyond.
You can join the challenge to New Labour's liberty threatening laws. So far 59 individuals have applied for 20 demos each (with 4 single demo requests) but anyone can come along on the 21st of April. Get involved and let's have 2,000 demos!This is how it works: Each demonstrator holds a 10 minute demo at 19 different places (the start and finish demonstrations are in Parliament Square) and then gives themselves 10 minutes to get to their next demonstration. We have an info pack available for you to use which includes details on how to organise the demos, a list of places you might want to protest at in the designated area, a map of the SOCPA zone and access to our easy to fill in application printer (type in the bare details of your demos and in seconds you will get 20 forms set up and ready to print.)
If you want to demonstrate on the 21st of April you have until 10.30am Sunday the 15th of April to get your forms into the police at Charing Cross police station.:
N.B. you should check that any Letter which you hand in or send via recorded delivery post (neither ordinary postal mail, nor fax, nor email are legally acceptable) to Charing Cross Police Station (or any of the other "police stations in the Metropolitan district" of London) is formally addressed to the "Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis", as per the wording of Section 133 of SOCPA, just in case you have to rely on this document in Court.
(1) A person seeking authorisation for a demonstration in the designated area must give written notice to that effect to the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (referred to in this section and section 134 as "the Commissioner").
[...]
(4) The notice must state-
(a) the date and time when the demonstration is to start,
(b) the place where it is to be carried on,
(c) how long it is to last,
(d) whether it is to be carried on by a person by himself or not,
(e) the name and address of the person giving the notice.(5) A notice under this section must be given by-
(a) delivering it to a police station in the metropolitan police district, or
(b) sending it by post by recorded delivery to such a police station.
UPDATE:
Indymedia have a report and some photos. It seems that the target of over 2000 demonstrations was achieved, which should not, of course, be allowed to be used by the Labour politicians as evidence that somehow the freedom to demonstrate has not been affected by this stupid and repressive law.
