Blogposts tagged 'Peaceful Protest'

This blog by Greenpeace UK exective director John Sauven first appeared on the Guardian's Comment Is Free. 

Today reports have begun to circulate that police have carried out what according to the Guardian "is thought to be the biggest pre-emptive raid on environmental campaigners in UK history, arresting 114 people believed to be planning direct action at a coal-fired power station". The arrests don't really come as a huge surprise to me. What we are witnessing today is a massive increase in police surveillance of environmental campaigners and an increasing number of environmental groups being infiltrated by informers.