Our aims...
to challenge vicious and violent protest and its apologists
to defend the human rights of protestors and their targets

This site is now an archive (10 April, 2008)

Its work continues now at www.livingissues.com family of sites on tough issues

This site is about protest that's gone wrong:
People have struggled and died for the right to protest. We celebrate the right to free speech and association. But some protest uses threats and menace - that's where protestors forget that their targets have human rights, too. And we look at the implications of other forms of direct action, usually with a degree of scepticism.

Try these recent stories:
Pro-test pros and cons, 24 February, 2006
UK "Cartoon Riots", 8 February, 2006
D-A editor in More 4's "Animals", 4 February, 2006
Morrissey supports animal rights violence, 25, January 2006
Civil Servant helps extremists, 4 November, 2005
Slip-up gaols extremist, 4 November, 2005
Extremist crackdown, 25 October, 2005
New anti-extremist measures? 30 October, 2005
Extremists to pay damages, 22 October, 2005
Monbiot on protest, 4 October, 2005
ALF/Shac activities, 2 October 2005
G8 Bombings, 7 July 2005
GP demo at minister's home, 26 April, 2005
Hunt supporters' triumphalism, 26 September 2004,
RDN challenges the fox-hunt protests, 16 September, 2004
AR "crackdown", 30 July, 2004
Foxhunters and Anti-vivisectionists, 30 July, 2004
"Of course I don't condone....." 30 July, 2004
AR victims' fightback 24 July, 2004
"Guinea pig farm victims" 26 April, 2004
"Use existing protest law better" (27 April, 2004)
Campaign victim in attack on Govt (26 April, 2004)
Plans for hunt civil disobedience (27 April, 2004)
Oxford: "Capital of animal suffering" (12 February, 2004)
"Activists changed my mind" - lawyer (6 April, 2004)
Vigorous debate or rights terrorism? by RDN (5 February, 2004)
Police wear down May Day anarchists (24 March, 2004)
Greenpeace and Big Ben war protest (22 March, 2004)
Ms Gun & GCHQ: loose cannon or a saint? (28 February, 2004)
Animal rights activists target judge's family (23 February, 2004)
Lawyer said to be harassing protestors (11 February, 2004)
Vigorous debate or rights terrorism? (5 February, 2004)