Save the parliament anti-war guy
Brian Haw has been domonstrating in front of Westminster for four years against Iraq sanctions and the Iraq war. Today he’s fighting yet another legal battle to stay.
The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, passed earlier this year, requires protesters to obtain police permission before staging any demonstration within a particular area designated by the home secretary: that area includes Parliament Square and Whitehall.
He has vowed to stay here as long as it takes. His wife, he believes, supported him for the first year, but has now been granted a divorce, despite the fact that he feels ‘closer to her than I have ever been in my heart’. He has, he admits, nowhere now to go.
Link to interview in The Guardian
Annoying, wacky, inspiring, tragic: whatever you think, isn’t this exactly what we’re trying to protect in London? Go Brian!
I spoke to him once. He is very passionate about what he is doing. It is silly that the government is attempting to ban free speech even a peaceful protest even.
he rocks. need more like him.
Good news! Westminster war protester wins right to stay: http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,11026,1538920,00.html