Matt Foot's guest appearances

Matt Foot

The Verso Podcast

Novara Media

BetterPod

OwlTail

Morag Livingstone

Our rights have never been handed to us by kings and queens, they’ve been fought for and won through protest. In their new book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest, criminal defence lawyer Matt Foot and documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist Morag Livingstone uncover the lengths to which the police in the UK have gone to suppress those protests.Through eye-witness account and previously unseen documents, they reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti–poll tax campaigners, student protesters, and Black Lives Matter activists.But, they tell Laura Kelly and Sophie Dimitrijevic on this week's BetterPod, protestors will not be silenced. They have useful advice for activists on how to continue making their voices heard, in the face of new restrictions brought in by the 2022 Policing Act.BetterPod is brought to you by The Big Issue’s Future Generations team. Through the Future Generations team, we offer a platform for exciting young journalists from underrepresented backgrounds to address the biggest issues facing us today. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our rights have never been handed to us by kings and queens, they’ve been fought for and won through protest. In their new book Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest, criminal defence lawyer Matt Foot and documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist Morag Livingstone uncover the lengths to which the police in the UK have gone to suppress those protests.Through eye-witness account and previously unseen documents, they reveal organised police violence against miners at Orgreave, print workers at Warrington, anti–poll tax campaigners, student protesters, and Black Lives Matter activists.But, they tell Laura Kelly and Sophie Dimitrijevic on this week's BetterPod, protestors will not be silenced. They have useful advice for activists on how to continue making their voices heard, in the face of new restrictions brought in by the 2022 Policing Act.BetterPod is brought to you by The Big Issue’s Future Generations team. Through the <a href="https://www.bigissue.com/tag/future-generations/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Future Generations</a> team, we offer a platform for exciting young journalists from underrepresented backgrounds to address the biggest issues facing us today. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

Matt Foot & Morag Livingstone: How the police suppress protest

Everyone who’s ever been to a protest in the UK knows it: the police are not there as neutral facilitators of your democratic rights, but to squeeze the joy out of protest and make it invisible to those in power. Recently, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has given the police even more power to restrict protests they deem disruptive, or even just noisy. To understand how we got here, filmmaker Morag Livingstone and solicitor Matt Foot researched the history of the policing of protest for a new book, Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest. In this episode they tell Rivkah Brown how a fundamental right has been slowly destroyed. How does the history of empire affect policing today? Why do journalists so often take the police line? Gow can movements like Kill the Bill defend the fundamental right of assembly? And what does all this have to do with a secret policing manual written in 1983? 

Everyone who’s ever been to a protest in the UK knows it: the police are not there as neutral facilitators of your democratic rights, but to squeeze the joy out of protest and make it invisible to those in power. Recently, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has given the police even more power to restrict protests they deem disruptive, or even just noisy. To understand how we got here, filmmaker Morag Livingstone and solicitor Matt Foot researched the history of the policing of protest for a new book, Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest. In this episode they tell Rivkah Brown how a fundamental right has been slowly destroyed. How does the history of empire affect policing today? Why do journalists so often take the police line? Gow can movements like Kill the Bill defend the fundamental right of assembly? And what does all this have to do with a secret policing manual written in 1983?