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#KillTheBill Coalition Statement

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary piece of legislation that endangers the rights and safety of every single one of us.

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#RIPtheIPP Sentences

As we push to #KillTheBill we need to also bring an end to the terrible situation faced by prisoners still on IPP sentences. We need to #RIPtheIPP

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#KILLTHEBILL

A series of online events to support the momentum rising to oppose the draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2021.  17/03/2021 & 18/03/2021 & 19/03/2021.

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Event: We Can Build a Better World

We can build a different world is a weekly panel series throughout September 2020 exploring abolition and mutual aid in the UK. This series is organised as a collaboration between Decriminalised Futures, Abolitionist Futures and Verso, with support from Arika.

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Practising Everyday Abolition

We cannot simply do away the police - we need to address the conditions in which people feel that police are the only or best option for responding to harm in their lives. We must build other means for preventing and addressing harm that will actually keep us safe.

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Defund the Police in the UK

This chart breaks down the difference between reformist reforms which expand the scope of policing, and abolitionist steps that reduce the scale of policing and its detremental impact. It is a UK-relevant resource adapted from a poster created by Critical Resistance in the US.

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