Anti-protest laws are an attempt to silence us… and we must resist, say disabled activists

Proposed new anti-protest laws pose a threat to free speech and are an attempt to silence and control protesters, disabled activists have warned. He said: “It is a threat to democratic process, free speech and our right to defend ourselves and our planet. “Disabled and nondisabled people alike must unite in opposition to this attempt to silence and control us.”He said XR Disabled Rebels had experienced a “foretaste of this iron fist policing” in 2019, while DPAC has also experienced “heavy-handed tactics”. “So as disabled people, we are again at risk of having our rights to speak, to assemble and to protest still further restricted.”Another XR Disabled Rebels member said the bill would increase the targeting of neurodivergent people. It is run and owned by disabled journalist John Pring and has been from its launch in April 2009.