#KILLTHEBILL
#KillTheBill - Defending our right to protest (Wednesday, 17 March 6-7pm)
Speakers: Zehrah Hasan (Black Protest Legal Support), Asad Rehman (War on Want), Emmanuelle (Liberty)
#KillTheBill - Hate crime laws won’t save us (Thursday, 18 March 6-7pm)
Speakers: Nim Ralph (Trans Abolitionist Futures), Jun Pang (Remember and Resist), Sarah Lamble (Bent Bars Project), Luke Smith (LabourGRT),
#KilTheBill - Building the movement to meet this moment (Friday, 19 March 6-7:30pm) [if you have trouble with the link please refresh the page]
Speakers: Gracie Mae Bradley, Becka (F*ck Boris), Kevin Blowe (NetPol), Sabrina (Sisters Uncut), Speaker (NME), Emmanuel Onapa (Hackney Account)
These events will be streamed to our YouTube channel or click on the links above.
These webinars offer a space to gather in response to the momentum rising to oppose the draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021. We join the call and leadership from Sisters Uncut to #KillTheBill.
Priti Patel’s policing bill would severely restrict the right to protest, drastically removing the ability of the people to make their voices heard. Following the horrific murder of Sarah Everard, and the subsequent police violence against women at a vigil in her memory, protestors have taken to the streets demanding accountability and transformation.
Across mainstream political parties, many of the arguments we hear being put forward as solutions to the problem of gendered violence are those that rely on carceral logics, which we seek to question, resist and dismantle. These remedies, such as undercover officers in clubs/pubs and making misogyny a hate crime, miss the mark for the future we want to see and build. Recognising the urgency of this moment, we come together online to share knowledge, build our movements of resistance and take collective action.
We offer these online events in addition to the incredible show of strength and resistance we have seen on the streets in recent days.
We are recording these and they will be available on our youtube channel, so please prioritise attending any demonstrations or actions in your town/city if you can. We know many of us are in opposition to the bill, and for whatever reasons cannot be at those demonstrations, but still seek a space to come together to strategise and act.
Co-hosting
Abolitionist Futures
Pluto Press
Black Protest Legal Support
Northern Police Monitoring Project
Remember and Resist