http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 23 May 2012 03:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/08/pro-democracy-activist-on-trial/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/08/pro-democracy-activist-on-trial/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:02:27 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=12984 Tomorrow, pro-democracy activists involved in the student demonstrations in December last year will appear at City of Westminster Magistrates Court. The demonstrations were followed a media witch-hunt; photographs of so-called “violent thugs”, and appeals for protesters to come forward and give the police information on their fellow students.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/08/pro-democracy-activist-on-trial/feed/ 52 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/06/after-alexandria-unity-is-needed-in-the-face-of-adversity/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/06/after-alexandria-unity-is-needed-in-the-face-of-adversity/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:14:13 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7553 On January 1st, 2011, Egyptians awoke to a disaster. Twenty-one people had been killed after a bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/06/after-alexandria-unity-is-needed-in-the-face-of-adversity/feed/ 9 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/31/a-real-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/31/a-real-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:23:48 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7407 One of the main stories to emerge after the tuition fees demonstrations earlier this month was the attack on Prince Charles and Camilla’s car as it drove down Regent Street.  Predictably, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police condemned what he referred to as the “thugs” who carried out the attack.  The double-standards should be highlighted; [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/31/a-real-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolution/feed/ 18 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/20/do-we-need-a-%e2%80%9cdemocratic-right%e2%80%9d-to-protest/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/20/do-we-need-a-%e2%80%9cdemocratic-right%e2%80%9d-to-protest/#comments Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:00:13 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7163 Since the student demonstrations erupted last month, over government plans to slash EMA and increase tuition fees to £9000 per year, there has been a lot of debate over our “democratic right” to protest. But what does the term actually mean?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/20/do-we-need-a-%e2%80%9cdemocratic-right%e2%80%9d-to-protest/feed/ 92 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/17/%e2%80%98supervision%e2%80%99-is-not-enough-the-ipcc-must-handle-this-investigation-themselves/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/17/%e2%80%98supervision%e2%80%99-is-not-enough-the-ipcc-must-handle-this-investigation-themselves/#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:53:45 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7120 When yesterday’s headlines announced that the police would be ‘probing’ my official complaint to the IPCC, after being dragged out of my wheelchair by an officer at Thursday’s student demonstration, some kind of medical examination was the first thought that popped into my mind.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/17/%e2%80%98supervision%e2%80%99-is-not-enough-the-ipcc-must-handle-this-investigation-themselves/feed/ 139 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who%e2%80%99s-apathetic-now/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who%e2%80%99s-apathetic-now/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:08:04 +0000 Jody McIntyre http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=7041 My name is Jody McIntyre and I didn’t begin fighting for equality on the 9th December, the night that I was thrown from my wheelchair and dragged across the road by a riot police officer. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/15/jody-mcintyre-who%e2%80%99s-apathetic-now/feed/ 516