Campaign Against Climate Change says Britons now have to ?pay to protest? after police refuse to close roads along route The right to stage demonstrations in Britain could be threatened following a demand that climate change protesters planning a march next month hire a private firm to oversee it ? a role previously carried out by the police. The Campaign Against Climate Change (CACC) says it is effectively being made to ?pay to protest?, after learning that its demonstration in London, which could attract up to 20,000 people, will carry a bill of thousands of pounds. Following negotiations with the Metropolitan police, the Greater London Authority and Westminster city council, the organisers of the Time to Act march ? which is supported by the People?s Assembly Against Austerity, the Stop the War Coalition, Global Justice Now, Avaaz and Friends of the Earth ? have been told the police will no longer facilitate the temporary closure of roads along the agreed route.

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