the way to be joined by peter tatchell peter welcome back to the alex salmond sure glad to join you again there are you as a human rights activists have been the were the last 40 years or so you've been involved many of the protests but you've also had a bit of a specialty in the single person campaigns are you in a group of people making a point is that because you believe that a subject acquire the sort of attention that was some of the highlights of all of these sort of campaigns all of the single or small person protests were very secretive had to be kept very secretive because they involve i wanted to surprise such as ambushing president robert mugabe of zimbabwe in london in 1909 such as going to the pulpit of the archbishop of canterbury dr george carey the year before in 1980 mostly these 2 in terms of the this is what robert mugabe will still pursue and i go after the u.k. foreign office and nobody else still in that the pomp of his power. would tell in london a bit to your personal cost of other book about the what exactly happened there well together with 3 other members of the

the effectiveness of political protest alex turns 1st to veteran campaigner for human rights peter tatchell the motto of the one person protest ramirez quit in moscow for the pulpit a concert because the peter tatchell 1st came to public prominence as the unsuccessful labor party candidate and the bermondsey byelection one of the most bruising contests of the 20th century the last 40 years he has continued to the headlines of one of the most courageous campaign official nights and jeno. rights in particular in the city as we've looked at the politics of protest for the last century in recent years some of the great campaign some rock against racism in the 1970 s. all the world's a moment of you somebody who's been involved in many of these campaigns but also has specialized as a courageous single person human rights campaign and the like the majority of people thought your people welcome back to the. glad to join you again so did. you as a human rights activists below the last 40 years or so you've been involved many of the protests but you've also had a bit of a specialty in the single per

we asked peter tatchell the most famous human rights campaigner in the u.k. of the last generation to deflect on his most effective campaigns and where the single issue and single minded protest can still move the needle of political to beat for me protest is the lifeblood of walk receive all the rights and freedom we have all the result of protest that's how it began protest and then eventually parliamentary change we ask medea benjamin the celebrated american political activist what exactly is going on today are we seeing an international wave of discontent with established political structure is akin to the 1960 s. or is this impression just a feature of the modern social media world with a banner held aloft in hong kong goes viral before you can see a presidential tweet i think social media can be. to mobilizing like we see in hong kong but i also think that before social media we had enormous protests we had mass protests around civil rights issues in the united states when there was no bar no twitter no instagram but 1st let us take a look at your react