dagblog - Comments for "The Right of the People to Protest Lockdown" http://dagblog.com/link/right-people-protest-lockdown-31305 Comments for "The Right of the People to Protest Lockdown" en Open your third eye http://dagblog.com/comment/281835#comment-281835 <a id="comment-281835"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/right-people-protest-lockdown-31305">The Right of the People to Protest Lockdown</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/open-your-third-eye/">Open your third eye <em>Glastonbury against the machine</em></a></p> <p>By <a href="https://thecritic.co.uk/author/richard-wright/" rel="author" title="Posts by Richard Wright">Richard Wright</a> @ TheCritic.co.uk19 May, 2020​</p> <blockquote> <p>Best known these days for its annual pop festival, the ancient town of Glastonbury in Somerset has become perhaps the unlikely epicentre of dissent against the Government’s lockdown.</p> <p>While the festival site at Pilton nearby is this year given back to grazing cows because of the coronavirus outbreak, the marketplace in the town centre has seen a series of protests against the restrictions imposed in the light of Covid-19.</p> <p>Small but repeated demonstrations, breaking the Government guidelines on gathering in public and social distancing, have brought police, including mounted officers, out in force.</p> <p>Events have also attracted an unlikely coalition of speakers: Piers Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour leader, who claims the virus is part of an agenda to bring in one world government, mandatory vaccines and a plan to get everyone microchipped; Mike Overd, the ex-paratrooper turned street evangelist, once dubbed ‘the most arrested preacher in Britain’; and Geraint Christopher, the cannabis campaigner, who runs the shop Hemp in Avalon in the town centre.</p> <p>The traditional Beltane May Day festival [....]</p> </blockquote> </div></div></div> Thu, 21 May 2020 02:24:06 +0000 artappraiser comment 281835 at http://dagblog.com Coronavirus/religious freedom http://dagblog.com/comment/281811#comment-281811 <a id="comment-281811"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/right-people-protest-lockdown-31305">The Right of the People to Protest Lockdown</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-cards="hidden" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Coronavirus/religious freedom news tonight...<br /><br /> LOS ANGELES (AP) — The head of the federal Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division told Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday that his plan to reopen California discriminates against churches. <a href="https://t.co/vcnZENXnkD">https://t.co/vcnZENXnkD</a></p> — Elana Schor (@eschor) <a href="https://twitter.com/eschor/status/1262952244124749832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Wed, 20 May 2020 03:36:49 +0000 artappraiser comment 281811 at http://dagblog.com