To our kids, we advocate fighting for our rights and for our voices to be heard. Many take affirmative action in their youth by waving placards at…
England's Jonny Bairstow removes a Just Stop Oil protester from the pitch during day one of the second Ashes test match at Lord's. Main image: PA
The easy targets are Jonny Bairstow or Joe Perry and not those we should really be slapping our copy of the Daily Mail down on the coffee table surface for: China, the US, Russia, and Japan.
No, real bravery when it comes to the protest is how committed you are and how much danger you place yourself in for the cause. Much derided all those years ago, Swampy was an eco-protester who, in place of holding placards reading ‘down with this sort of thing!’ instead, in 1996, burrowed in Devon, at protest at the A30 extension down a series of tunnels for seven days and nights before finally re-emerging.
So, from the great unwashed to the only real protestor who, in place of easy targets and protests, actively takes the road less travelled and challenges oppressors in their own back yard. Usually operating as a one-man band as, well, others talk the talk but don’t walk it, Peter Tatchell stands alone in the bravery stakes. Now aged 70, Peter most recently flew to Qatar to demonstrate against their anti-LGBT stance.
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