{"id":17609,"date":"2024-03-22T20:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17609"},"modified":"2024-03-22T20:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:58:17","slug":"drive-2-survive-protest-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17609","title":{"rendered":"Drive 2 Survive Protest, London"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Drive2Survive July 2021\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fuZC8pmk_sw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Drive 2 Survive rally to protest anti-Traveller law \u2018makes history\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drive2survive.org.uk\/about\">Drive 2 Survive<\/a>\u00a0rally kicked off with an explosive start in Parliament Square last week as campaigners warned of a \u2018summer of discontent\u2019 against the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.travellerstimes.org.uk\/features\/travellers-times-condemns-hostile-new-anti-traveller-laws\">new racist police bill<\/a>\u00a0which will \u201cwipe out\u201d Gypsy and Traveller and other nomadic cultures by criminalising trespass with the intent to reside in a vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 500 people came to the rally on 7th July, 2021, at Parliament Square, London to demonstrate against the police bill in front of the heart of British Government. Every GRT community and nomadic community was there to make history, including Romany Gypsy, Kale, Scottish Travellers, Irish Travellers, Showmen, New Travellers, Van Dwellers and livaboard itinerant Boaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.travellerstimes.org.uk\/news\/2021\/07\/drive-2-survive-rally-protest-anti-traveller-law-makes-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.travellerstimes.org.uk\/news\/2021\/07\/drive-2-survive-rally-protest-anti-traveller-law-makes-history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive 2 Survive rally to protest anti-Traveller law \u2018makes history\u2019 The\u00a0Drive 2 Survive\u00a0rally kicked off with an explosive start in Parliament Square last week as campaigners warned of a \u2018summer of discontent\u2019 against the\u00a0new racist police bill\u00a0which will \u201cwipe out\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/17609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[726,217,48,728,160],"class_list":["post-17609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-drive","tag-london","tag-protest","tag-survive","tag-travellers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17612,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17609\/revisions\/17612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}