Four leading groups have launched a nationwide campaign emphasizing the right to protest using digital billboards in major cities. The campaign showcases real protesters advocating for various causes, including disability rights, climate change, and anti-black racism. Created with special effects, these virtual representations appear in popular shopping areas, aiming to raise awareness about the challenges activists face. Research indicates that the Metropolitan Police have arrested numerous protesters without substantial grounds for charges, highlighting the urgent need to protect the right to protest.
Disabled people are one of those groups who can be isolated and silenced by a government that doesn't want to listen. There's a lot of us, but we don't have the economic power of a trade union to protect ourselves, and we don't have much of a presence in the media, so we really need the right to protest to make ourselves visible and have our concerns heard.
With some of the disability policies this government is trying to bring in, and the disastrous impacts they could have, it isn't surprising that they might want to make it harder for us to tell people what's going on.
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