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#KillTheBill protests make a difference (What’s Happening newsletter #13)
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What’s Happening newsletter #10
Real Media and Phoenix Media Co-op have teamed up to release a regular newsletter. We collectively seek to provide bold, accurate, accessible journalism which is unashamedly internationalist and subversive. At the centre of this is […]
An artist speaks about her new film on the crime bill’s trespass laws
The government’s new Policing, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (PCSCB) entered its latest stage on 18 May. Despite widespread opposition to the bill, including protests that have faced aggressive policing, the government is pushing onwards. […]
Boat dwellers are fighting back against threats to ‘cull’ and destroy their homes
Boat-dwellers in and around London are facing a new threat to their way of life. A charity claiming to promote “wellbeing” on the waterways has threatened people’s homes and very existence, in what boat-dwellers have […]
A weekend of trespass kept resistance against the new crime bill alive
Following a national call-out to “go for a walk, a swim or a paddle in a local area” on 24 April, people across England engaged in acts of trespass. It was part of a wider […]
May Day, May Day, May Day! Moves to Kill the Bill grow louder and stronger.
Calls have gone out around the UK for the latest Kill the Bill (KTB) demonstrations on Saturday 1 May. This is also a longstanding international day of solidarity for unions and workers. So around the […]
Social media is now more important than ever to hold police accountable
On 9 April, UK police news website Police Oracle reported that a senior Metropolitan Police officer is calling for an end to “trial by social media”. To achieve this, he is calling for “government and […]
It’s ‘police who turn protest into violence’, and we’ve had enough
On 30 March, the fourth #KillTheBill demo in Bristol went ahead peacefully. Although police were present, they kept their distance. The result? No violence. Coincidence? Absolutely not. It demonstrated that tooled-up riot cops inflame and […]
Why the new policing bill is also chillingly racist
The new policing bill essentially threatens to criminalise one of the UK’s most discriminated minority communities and destroy the fabric of their lives. It’s also racist. A rising number of people know that the Police, […]
‘One of the most brutal things I’ve ever seen.’ Eyewitness accounts of police violence in Bristol.
On 23 March, people peacefully gathered on College Green in Bristol in the latest #KillTheBill protest. This ended in what protesters called “brutal” violence when riot police using police dogs and horses moved in on […]