[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Dan Ackroyd]

> Marching through
> > the street is not possible without a parade permit.
> 
> Marching through the streets such that you block roads or seriously
> inconvenience traffic or pedestrians requires a permit, but marching
> without doing so doesn't, I believe.  I'm pretty certain we 
> didn't have
> one last time - Dan checked what was necessary IIRC.

I will double check if you want, but so long as you don't block anybody
else's
movement then you are allowed to do pretty much as you like. I suspect we
would 
need quite a few (>50) people to get permission to march along the road from
Picadilly
to Charing Cross, as it would obviously require quite a few police to stop
the traffic.

In fact, I believe we didn't _have_ to inform the police that we were going
to protest outside the US embassy, as we weren't blocking the road, but if 
we didn't tell them in advance they would view us as a disturbance that was
blocking the pavement and would ask us to move along straight away. As well
as get a couple of vans of riot police to ensure that we complied.

> > As a practical matter, however, carrying a big banner on a 
> sidewalk from
> > one very crowded area to another will be quite difficult. 

Definitely, in fact walking around Picadilly on a Saturday is difficult
enough 
even when you aren't carrying anything, but a single person placard is a
good 
way of getting peoples attention.

dan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian T. J. Midgley 
> [mailto:free-sklyarov at effector.xenoclast.org]
> Sent: 09 August 2001 11:37
> To: Theodore Hong
> Cc: free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org
> Subject: Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail
> 
> 
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Theodore Hong wrote:
> 
> > Julian T J Midgley <jtjm at xenoclast.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Kieran Barry wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> > > > > This makes sense.  How about congregating in 
> Piccadilly Circus,
> > > > > leafletting aggresively there for a while, then 
> marching with banners
> > > > > unfurled, flags flying, signs waving and chants 
> shouting to Charing
> > > > > Cross to repeat the leafletting exercise there.
> > > >
> > > > All 30 of us? "The UK Free Sklyarov movement was wiped 
> out today when
> > > > they stepped out in front of the wrong black cab"...
> > > >
> > > > Let's keep the banners etc. in reserve.
> > >
> > > Not sure I agree with this at all.  Assuming we decide to 
> hit both places
> > > we have to get from one to t'other somehow.  It's not far 
> to walk, and if
> > > we want people to come and talk to us, arriving with some 
> noise and
> > > 'interesting visuals' will at least get their attention.
> >
> > As a practical matter, however, carrying a big banner on a 
> sidewalk from
> > one very crowded area to another will be quite difficult.  
> Marching through
> > the street is not possible without a parade permit.
> 
> Marching through the streets such that you block roads or seriously
> inconvenience traffic or pedestrians requires a permit, but marching
> without doing so doesn't, I believe.  I'm pretty certain we 
> didn't have
> one last time - Dan checked what was necessary IIRC.
> 
> Julian
> 
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