Published 15 March 2021

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The Labour Party LGBT+ Network is proud to stand in solidarity with all those protesting against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill

 

This is an open statement written by a coalition of UK organisations, groups & social movements of all ethnic backgrounds, gender identities, sexualities, faiths, abilities, ages and social standings, who have united to challenge the UK government. We are extremely troubled and disturbed by the newly proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in its current form. The deliberately vague language used would enable the police to act unilaterally with near unlimited discretion.

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This appears to be a blatant attempt to create an authoritarian police state, where the voices of ordinary people, particularly those most marginalised and disadvantaged, are silenced by state sanctioned penalties. We collectively decry this move by the UK government and demand that MPs Kill The Bill.

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The rights to peacefully assemble and protest are a fundamental part of any democracy, empowering people to have their voices heard, in addition to holding the Government to account. This is also in direct contrast to the assurances the UK government gave that it will uphold the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as breaking with the UN Covenant on Human Rights. 

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Unless Her Majesty’s Government changes its current course of action, we cannot foresee that the mounting public unrest from all sides will cease, nor that it should. Such is the nature of democracy. 

We would like to remind the Home Secretary and the Government that they serve by democratic mandate that is handed to them by the will of the people. 

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We the signees, and millions across the country, will continue to unite and fight to protect the fundamental human rights that every single one of us is entitled to.

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#KillTheBill
#UniteForHumanRights
#SaveOurDemocracies
#ProtectOurRightToProtest

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Signatories:

1. Black Music Movement

2. Black lives matter Leeds

3. Merseyside BLM Alliance

4. Labour Party LGBT+ Network

5. United for Black lives

6. Justice 4 Minorities

7. Brighton BLM

8. Northern Police Monitoring Project (NPMP)

9. Extinction Rebellion UK

10. The Roundhouse, London

11. Reclaim the Night Leeds

12. All Black Lives UK

13. Leeds Tidal

14. RAAH CIC

15. Global Women’s Strike

16. Extinction Rebellion Youth UK

17. Shezana Hafiz, Outreach Coordinator, CAGE NGO

18. The New Black Panther Party

19. The Take The Initiative Party

20. London Renters

21. Reclaim These Streets Portsmouth

22. Justice for Black Lives

23. Liverpool Sisterhood

24. Global Justice Bloc

25. Manchester March

26. Black Culture Festival

27. Winvisible

28. Single Mother’s Self-Defence

29. The Outside Project

30. The Feminist Bookshop

31. Nigerians United in the Diaspora

32. Queer AF Brighton

33. Nigerian Angel

34. Muslim LGBT Network

35. Brixton’s Baddest Skate Shop

36. BLM London

37. Queer Strike

38. Women Against Rape

39. Angel of Youths

40. The Black Project

41. Merseyside Antifascist Network

42. London Gypsies & Travellers

43. Reclaim These Streets York

44. Women of Colour Global Women’s Strike

45. Black Heritage Collective

46. The Warren Youth Project

47. Windrush Legal Angels

48. XR Justice Steering Group

49. My Queer Culture

50. Tough Cookie Magazine

51. Diamond You Projects CIC

52. Black Progressive Group

53. Black & Brown Rainbow

54. Black Lives Matter Festival

55. Black News UK

56. XR Southsea       

57. CEE Bill Alliance Portsmouth

58. HS2 Rebellion

59. Fight For A Future

60. XR Brighton 

61. Reclaim These Streets Brighton

62. Kill The Bill Southampton

63. Sound Women SW Network

64. Speakerbox Street Party

65. XR Brighton UNI’S

66. Climate Census

67. Sheffield Against The Policing Bill

68. BLM Worthing & Adur

69. XR Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

70. MLC Britain 

71. Mask Up Group

72. Students Not Consumers

73. XR Portsmouth 

74. Portsmouth BLM

75. Leeds Block The Bill

76. Gloucester Youth Community Action

77. XR Educators

78. Legal Action For Women

79. Kodak Collective Brighton

80. XR Scientists

81. Clapback Club

82. BLM Enfield

83. XR Waveney East

84. YCL Britain 

85. Cops Off Campus

86. XR Haringey

87. Kill The Bill Southwest

88. XR Barnet 

89. The English Collection of Prostitutes

90. Future Hackney

91. XR York

92. Rage Against HS2

93. XR Warrington

94. Anti-Oppression Circle

95. Royal Holloway Left Forum

96. XR Stoke

97. Royal Holloway LGBT+ Society Committee

98. Royal Holloway Labour Society

99. XR/HS2 Support Network

100. Lambeth and Southwark Antifascist League 

101. Haringey antifascists

102. IN.Society

103. XR Croydon

104. XR Unify

105. XRUPT - Extinction Rebellion Underground Partisan Tendency

106. The Voice of Colour

107. XR Lambeth

108. Anti-harassment Club Brighton 

109. BLM Leamington 

110. XR kensington and chelsea

111. XR London Nonviolence and Deescalation Circle 

112. BLM Portsmouth

113. Stand Up to Racism Portsmouth

114. Project E

115. Amazon Rebellion

116. Brazil Matters

117. Harrow and Kenton Antifascist & Anti-Racist Association

118. Imperial College Left Forum

119. HS2 Health MDT - providing voluntary healthcare to HS2 protest camps. 

120. 9K4what

121. 9k4

122. Whatyork

123. York student solidarity network

124. Pen ting poetry

125. Minority Protection Initiative

126. African Arising UK Chapter

127. 9k4whatnewcastle 

128. 9k4whatnorthumbria

129. Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism

130. 9k4whatstirling

131. Revolutionary Communist Group 

132. 9k4whatuclan 

133. BLM for Stoke

134. BLM Warrington

135. XR Northampton

136. BLM in the Stix

137. XR Kettering

138. XR Newcastle Universities

139. XR Digital Rebellion

140. XR Oxford

141. XR Oxford Family Group

142. XR Oxford EDI WG

143. XR Llaneli

144. XR Bath

145. Hull Sisters

146.  Oxford Unity

147. Haringey Antifascists

148. Challenge Racism Eastborne

149.  Bee Bee

150. Runnymede Antifascists

151. Reclaim The Night Leeds 

152. The 4th Demand Network

153. Papua Militant International 

154. Animal Rebellion West London

155. BLM Hillingdon

156. XR Cymru

157. BLM West London

158. XR Cardiff

159. Reclaim the Streets Brighton

160. Rooting For Justice

161. Sea Life Extinction

162. XR Youth (Internationalist) Solidarity

163. Fridays For Future Europe