International Human Rights Day, December 10, saw a rally held in Lismore to highlight the importance of the right to protest.
‘The rally was to remind our police and government that the right to protest is fundamental in a functioning democracy,’ said rally organiser Chibo Mertineit.
‘Premier Minns tried to stop the Rising Tide protest illegally a few weeks ago and all over this country laws are getting rewritten.’
Speakers and music raised the right to protests and entertained the rally withe the rally MC pointing out that the annual budget for the NSW police is $4.751 billion dollars and they ‘can’t understand why police are not educated enough to deal with real humans’.
‘The MC referred to the recent tasering of a 95 year old woman and her death, the 78 year old sandwich-board activist Danny Lim, and locally Malveena Martyn, 69, who got her back broken three years ago while she was peacefully blocking the entrance to Cherry Tree State Forest,’ said Chibo.
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