Legal singing protest

Subject: Legal singing protest
From: GUEST,hiding for obvious reasons
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 05:40 PM

Can anyone give a bit of simple advice about the legality of singing as part of a very orderly public protest?
Would it be best just to file a Temporary Event Notice. It would be in the street obviously. Under the terms of the Act the only people who can object are the police and only on grounds of possible law breaking. Far too easy for them to object if it is a planned Public protest I think. Are we stifled forever then??


Any views?

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: skipy
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 05:48 PM

Watch any protest & you will see / hear chanting, usual "what do we want" crap, they never get arrested for that, so why arrest or stop singing as long as there is no incitement, racsism, homophobia, threat etc.
However what are you protesting agianst?
Skipy

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: skipy
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 05:57 PM

Spoken to "er indoors" on this, she deals with this law as a job.
Appears that the emphasis is on performance, if it is planned / advertised & predicted to happen you could be caught out, but if it just happens it appears that you are o/k.
Handing out pre printed song sheets would make it planned.
Skipy.

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: Greg B
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 06:02 PM

Makes one glad for that ol' 1st Amendment on this side of the
pond.

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: Barry Finn
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 06:06 PM

What country are you planning this in, after all laws are different depending on where you are?

Barry

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 06:23 PM

If you get arrested for singing on a protest, that's all to the good. It might even get the rest of the orderly crowd singing.

On CND marches I always used to sneak up behind people shouting out the kind of slogans I didn't like the sound of and start singing. More often than not it worked.

Never got arrested, but then the laws weren't so repressive in those days.

On the other hand the police these days are probably more worried about their public image and about looking like total prats, so I doubt if you've got anything to worry about.

Subject: RE: Legal singing protest
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Jan 07 - 06:39 PM

Thanks Skipy,thats the sort of thinking I was having. We must make sure we just happen to know the same songs, oh how difficult is that? And musicians always carry instruments with them don't they!

Oh it is in the UK, I did forget to mention that we are not in the land of the free.