Thread: To all the women scared to #ReclaimTheseStreets as a result of police intimidation around £10k fines for covid-safe vigils. This is just the beginning... @pritipatel’s new Police & Crime Bill introduced this week will criminalise nearly all forms of effective protest..
They want to enshrine the limitations on civil liberties that we’ve seen under the pandemic in law and restrict the ways we can legally protest going forward. Noone knows about this bill yet you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prot…
Read more here and do everything you can to spread the word. Or this will become the new law of the land under the radar and we’ll wake up one day soon having lost our right to protest theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/1…
The second reading of this bill is happening Monday and Tuesday this week. Contact your MP today & ask them to speak out against it and slow its passage. We need a proper debate and conversation about the #righttoprotest and that starts with #ReclaimTheseStreets
Above all, don’t be intimidated. We enjoy rights as women today precisely because women defied the unjust laws of the land together and kept the pressure up through direct action and protest until we won.
Be in no doubt - these new restrictions on protest are explicitly designed to clamp down on climate and anti-racism protests. But if they come for @XRebellionUK @UKSCN and #BlackLivesMatterUK and we don't stand up, who's next? EVERYONE's rights! gov.uk/government/pub…
The Bill includes provisions to strengthen police and Home Office powers to define what they find to be 'disruptive' (eg. too many women being too 'noisy' standing up for their right to #ReclaimTheseStreets?) and criminalise protests at racist memorials gov.uk/government/pub…
Massive respect to everyone standing together in grief, anger and solidarity today in memory of Sarah Everard to #ReclaimTheseStreets it’s so powerful to see #peoplepower stand up and show police and government that no one can take away #righttoprotest
Same time next week in every street up and down the UK??

Can everyone who's outraged (but not shocked) by this week's turn of events against women learn this in time?


@ReclaimTS @SistersUncut #Reclaimthenight #ReclaimTheStreets #ReclaimTheseStreets
Here's a how to and the English lyrics y'all: womensmarch.com/2020-dance
Please send this briefing from @libertyhq on the #PoliceCrackdownBill #policingbill to your MP and make sure they vote against it moving forward this week

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14 Mar
Last night's scenes at Clapham Common show exactly why we can't let @pritipatel ram through a #PoliceCrackdownBill that would give her and police forces sweeping powers to shut down protest and silence dissenting voices.

@AnnelieseDodds I hope you'll speak out against it
Unless you want to lose the right to speak out freely and protest effectively, I urge everyone to write to your MP URGENTLY asking them to stop the #PoliceCrackdownBill in its track. There's a useful template here: docs.google.com/document/d/1E5…
You can read more about it in this thread: . Among many other things, it would enshrine in law a potential 10 year prison sentence for any kind of protest that the Home Office and @pritipatel considers 'disruptive' #PoliceCrackdownBill
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