Community Solidarity Stroud District has been leafletting about the distribution of the horrible “newspaper” The Light in the High Street of Stroud and published the following statement on 4th March 2022 (also sending it to the Stroud News and Journal paper in response to a letter from someone who hands out ‘The Light’):
We want to take this opportunity to make it crystal clear that we have not sought to have the stall banned, and it is not our group that has written to the County Council seeking to have it removed from the streets.
We have very serious concerns about the ideas, writers and organisations that this group promotes, and we understand why others have been moved to act in this way. But we support freedom of assembly and speech, and the right to peaceful protest.
The Light’s faux-liberalism sits ill with its regular platforming of fascists, but no good is served by allowing themselves to present themselves as martyrs of free speech. We are not trying to censor or cancel the people behind this disgusting rag. We are using our freedom of speech to educate the people of Stroud as to what it represents, in the hope that they will join us in rejecting it.
Community Solidarity Stroud District 