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Crossposting again:


Tomorrow come and support Kill The Bill prisoners by making cards, writing letters, painting banners in a creative space for solidarity.

In March thousands of peaceful protesters took to the streets of Bristol to demonstrate against the plans to give the police increased powers, to fight for or human right to protest and to protect the ways of lives of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Due to a heavy police presence with police brutality the protests turned nasty and many protesters were left injured and arrested.

78 protesters were arrested. 8 are now in prison.

Let's send them an abundance of love to show solidarity.

Tomorrow 4pm, next to the M32 skate park.

Some art materials will be provided but please also bring your own if you have.
 
In passing, was a bit curious about how the rest of the left press beyond Freedom was covering this round of court dates and sentences. Tribune doesn't seem to have anything up on it, looking at Novara I saw they had this up:
novaramedia.com

10 Years After the Riots, the Left Is Finally Taking on the Police State | Novara Media

Many leftists struggled to extend solidarity to the rioters. Now, threatened with criminalisation themselves, it is crucial this mistake isn't made again.
novaramedia.com novaramedia.com
But then on actually reading it, it seems to be a pretty reasonable article but one that somehow neglects to mention anything about the Bristol cases. Is this just me being unneccessarily snidey, or is it a bit shit to write an article about Kill the Bill and resistance to the carceral state, the week that five people get sent down for a Kill the Bill protest, and neglect to mention anything about it?
 
a thought that just occurred to me is that - perversely - this law may lead to a deskilling of senior police officers in commanding public order, that if the suppression of protest is achieved the routine experience officers would accumulate of policing a-b marches, static protest, and of course scuffles and larger confrontations may no longer be available: leading to an inability to control and deal with incidents at scale.
 
Benefit brunch at 56A on Sunday:


Also, report from recent demos at HMP Eastwood and Bristol:
bristolabc.wordpress.com

Solidarity Noise Demonstrations outside HMP Eastwood Park & HMP Bristol

Our passion for freedom is stronger than the prison!Last week people gathered outside HMP Eastwood park women’s prison to show solidarity with prisoners who have recently experienced increase…
bristolabc.wordpress.com bristolabc.wordpress.com
 
Sure there'll be more stuff confirmed for the 21st soon and hopefully a handy list, but so far there's:
Manchester
Cardiff
Newcastle
Liverpool
and London
Sheffield are encouraging people to go to London rather than having a local event, which seems like a bit of a shit idea, both from a covid/unneccessary travel perspective and also just because why would you ever go to London. But if for some inexplicable reason you do want to go to London, here's the coach from Sheffield/Leeds/York.
 
hitmouse said:
In passing, was a bit curious about how the rest of the left press beyond Freedom was covering this round of court dates and sentences. Tribune doesn't seem to have anything up on it, looking at Novara I saw they had this up:
novaramedia.com

10 Years After the Riots, the Left Is Finally Taking on the Police State | Novara Media

Many leftists struggled to extend solidarity to the rioters. Now, threatened with criminalisation themselves, it is crucial this mistake isn't made again.
novaramedia.com novaramedia.com
But then on actually reading it, it seems to be a pretty reasonable article but one that somehow neglects to mention anything about the Bristol cases. Is this just me being unneccessarily snidey, or is it a bit shit to write an article about Kill the Bill and resistance to the carceral state, the week that five people get sent down for a Kill the Bill protest, and neglect to mention anything about it?
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It's not just you. It's shit of them to do that.
 
Still doesn't seem to be a big centralised list that I can find, but Cardiff details are now confirmed:


Oh, and the Morning Star have got around to publishing their KTB article - nothing about the Bristol trials or prisoners, but plenty of plugs for getting involved in Momentum and Labour instead: The false start of Kill the Bill

Also, if anyone from Swansea/Newport/Bristol/Cardiff wants to go to London, XR are running coaches from there too: Coach From Swansea-Cardiff- Newport -Bristol to the Impossible Rebellion But as mentioned above there's stuff happening in Cardiff that day anyway so imo it'd make sense to just go there.
 
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hitmouse said:
Still doesn't seem to be a big centralised list that I can find, but Cardiff details are now confirmed:


Oh, and the Morning Star have got around to publishing their KTB article - nothing about the Bristol trials or prisoners, but plenty of plugs for getting involved in Momentum and Labour instead: The false start of Kill the Bill

Also, if anyone from Swansea/Newport/Bristol/Cardiff wants to go to London, XR are running coaches from there too: Coach From Swansea-Cardiff- Newport -Bristol to the Impossible Rebellion But as mentioned above there's stuff happening in Cardiff that day anyway so imo it'd make sense to just go there.
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The Morning Star article is a bizarre intervention. If they wanted a centrally organised coalition why didn't they set one up?
 
Red Sky said:
The Morning Star article is a bizarre intervention. If they wanted a centrally organised coalition why didn't they set one up?
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I liked the picture of the face of disorganised structurelessness though:
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And yeah, it definitely felt quite "LET ME TELL YOU ALL ABOUT THE BOOK I'VE JUST FINISHED READING THIS WEEK". I also enjoyed "We need to link up activists from the full range of the left, from social-democrats to Marxist-Leninists". So, from Morning Star readers to Morning Star readers, then.
 
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If anyone feels like getting your balaclava on and eating some watermelon this weekend, there is now a thread of tomorrow's protests at:


Still pretty slim pickings compared to earlier ones, looks like Exeter and Stoke are the only ones not already posted above:
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Pickman's model said:
a thought that just occurred to me is that - perversely - this law may lead to a deskilling of senior police officers in commanding public order, that if the suppression of protest is achieved the routine experience officers would accumulate of policing a-b marches, static protest, and of course scuffles and larger confrontations may no longer be available: leading to an inability to control and deal with incidents at scale.
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Already happening but more because there is far less disorder at the football and many matches are steward only. . There was always far more at the football and the old bill could use more interventionist tactics because hardly anyone, including on the left ( with a very few notable exceptions) or the media cared the tiniest hoot about what happened at the football.
 
A380 said:
Already happening but more because there is far less disorder at the football and many matches are steward only. . There was always far more at the football and the old bill could use more interventionist tactics because hardly anyone, including on the left ( with a very few notable exceptions) or the media cared the tiniest hoot about what happened at the football.
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i saw an interesting bit about the declining numbers of officers joining the met's public order cadre at Studying the London Metropolitan Police Public Order Cadre – Think: Research. i haven't managed to find the articles referred to in the blog, but i'll give it another go over the weekend.
 
Pickman's model said:
i saw an interesting bit about the declining numbers of officers joining the met's public order cadre at Studying the London Metropolitan Police Public Order Cadre – Think: Research. i haven't managed to find the articles referred to in the blog, but i'll give it another go over the weekend.
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Apparently: At the moment very few ‘senior’ officers want to do public order command courses ( or firearms for that matter) so the cadre of people doing them is getting older (not necessarily a bad thing in the short term) but also less sizeable as rozzers retire quite young on their old final salary schemes. It’s far safer for bright young thing’s careers to focus on paper clip accounting and laughing at chief officers jokes…

Rank and file officers are less likely to volunteer for level 2 public order training as they tend to get their weekends fucked around for no extra pay instead of the overtime payments it used to bring.
Today’s young rozzers strangely getting bored with losing their one proper weekend off a month in exchange for two days in the bank they might be able to take on a Tuesday and Thursday in November 2024.

Add to that that hardly anyone under 35 can drive the big public order vans and, unless something changes* the streets could be free for protest in about 6 years… Allegedly.

ETA that’s an interesting paper.

* Something will change, sorry.
 
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Some of the comments are interesting. One of my nephews has joined the Met. He says it's his way of getting a law degree. He doesn't plan to be on the beat. If this is the attitude of recruits then the future is going to be interesting.
 
From the Support KTB prisoners instagram:
"Let's set the record straight.

Did you attend the KTB protests? Can you make a statement about what really happened ?

@bristolagainst_thebill are collecting statements and are planning something BIG, but your support is needed!

Please send statements to their account.

Let's set the record straight!"
You'd hope that there's some kind of way for people who aren't on instagram to contact them/submit statements, but who knows?
Also, solidarity fundraiser thing happening in that Bristol next week:
prsc.org.uk

Kill the Bill Solidarity Fair

Fundraiser for young activists facing prison sentences for defending our rights - Workshops - Talks - Art - Folk - Celidh - Funk - Cabaret - Open Mic - Circus
prsc.org.uk prsc.org.uk

Also also, new bustcards:
 
DaveCinzano said:
Bristol filth talking lying bollocks about their bungled 100+ copper squat raid on the wrong address, including claiming they didn't have any video footage of their massive fucking balls-up:

www.bristol247.com

EXCLUSIVE: Police do not know which officers unlawfully stormed student flat

Police say that 'several learnings will be implemented for future operations'
www.bristol247.com www.bristol247.com
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What a crock of shite

No records were kept about which officers from which mutual aid force entered each property, meaning that no bodycam footage is able to be found from any of the estimated 20 officers who unlawfully entered the student flat.
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At least the Police are getting the feel for mutual aid
 
Avon & Somerset also admit that an “element of the response” sent to one of the students who lived in the flat, Billy Stockwell, was not true.

The third year University of Bristol student was told by the police that superintendent Mark Runacres had contacted him to make an apology “directly following the incident”.

This is something which Stockwell said did not happen, and that he has not received any emails, calls or texts from Runacres, the Bristol area commander.

In a letter seen by Bristol24/7, an Avon & Somerset Police staff member wrote: “I have no reason to doubt the account of Supt Runacres, especially given his senior position within the organisation. I do understand and appreciate that given the shock of what had happened, Mr Stockwell may not have felt ready to accept an apology/contact.”

After being asked by Bristol24/7 about the conflicting accounts, an Avon & Somerset spokesperson said: “This element of the response given to the complainant is incorrect.”
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DaveCinzano said:
Bristol filth talking lying bollocks about their bungled 100+ copper squat raid on the wrong address, including claiming they didn't have any video footage of their massive fucking balls-up:

www.bristol247.com

EXCLUSIVE: Police do not know which officers unlawfully stormed student flat

Police say that 'several learnings will be implemented for future operations'
www.bristol247.com www.bristol247.com
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Quite amusing tweet thread story about the police-wrongfully-raid-wrong-flat thing, told in headlines 🤣

 
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