Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Anna Feigenbaum is a lecturer in media and politics at Bournemouth University. She is an author of Protest Camps (forthcoming with Zed) and is currently writing a book about the political history of tear gas to be published with Verso. Follow@drfigtree on Twitter
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Published in: TransformationThe rise of resistance and resilience to tear gasTear gas turns the square, the march and the public assembly into a toxic space.
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Published in: openSecurityWhite-washing the water cannon: salesmen, scientific experts and human rights abusesScrubbing away the white-wash of 'less lethal' riot control reveals a history littered with humanitarian disasters,...
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Published in: openSecurityA hundred years of toxic humanitarianismThe history of tear gas traces a metamorphosis from chemical weapon of warfare to 'legitimate' crowd control...