Green Left Show #39: How protest rights are under threat in Australia
David Meija-Canales from the Human Rights Law Centre discusses the new report Protest in Peril: Our Shrinking Democracy on the latest episode of the Green Left Show.
The interview included discussion about: 2:21 the Protest in Peril report; 4:03 threats to protest rights; 6:41 draconian policing; 9:26 protecting protest rights; 11:06 responding to critics; 12:25 protest as a “gateway human right”; 14:48 broader attacks on democratic rights; and 16:54 disruptive protests.
The report can be found here.
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