Just Stop Oil: How Mediation Between Climate Activists And Police Could Help With Escalating Protests

Mike Makin-Waite reflects on how civic mediation practices may help to de-escalate protest scenarios.
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Mike Makin-Waite reflects on how civic mediation practices may help to de-escalate protest scenarios.
Colonial police organisations used similar arguments to uphold their power as were heard in the trial of George Floyd’s murderer.
The coronavirus lockdown in the UK has lead the government to increasingly focus on the affective life of the populace. This draws our attention to sovereign encounters, racialised public order and the temper of the populace more generally.
We need to be clearer about what’s at stake when deciding how, for what purpose, and against whom, police authority is deployed.
West London music group 1011 have been banned from making music without police permission.