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hitmouse said:
Update from the legal support crowdfunder:

Just before Christmas, Ryan Roberts was jailed for 14 years for his part in the Bristol Kill the Bill demonstration on 21 March 2021. The state is coming down hard on everyone who took to the streets that night - and this January, Bristol Defendant Solidarity will be back in court to help people fight a fresh round of cases.

So far, 13 people have been sentenced to a total of over 49 years in prison. From the end of January to end of August 2022, we already have 26 riot trials set for Bristol Crown Court, with more to come. We urgently need your help to support them.

We're just £5,000 away from our target - can you share the crowdfunder in your networks and help us reach it? We'll be closing this crowdfunder on 4 February, and this is our last chance to find the money we need to support people as they face the legal system.

In Solidarity,

Bristol Defendant Solidarity
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One of the neighbours popped round this morning to tell us there was a Kill the Bill demo in town and did we want to come down. Well, something had to get us out of bed and we thought it probably rude not to.

There was s small crowd, more than a hundred but no more than a hundred and fifty. And of course, the SWP were there with their stall, their placards and of course their papers.

The first speaker was from the GRT Drive 2 Survive campaign. He gave a good speech that mentioned the trespass aspect but he mainly focused on the restrictions to protest included in the Bill, making the obvious point that what we there doing today was under threat.

Then there were some other speakers but none of them focused particularly on the Bill but more just general stuff about the government and the prime minister and parties and covid.

After that it was asked if anybody else had anything to say. I thought, "shit, someone from our site should say something". Nobody was keen. Somebody else took the megaphone and I suddenly thought that maybe I should just read out what I wrote on here yesterday (on the GRT thread). So once the megaphone was free again I stepped forward.

I was a bit nervous (stupid, I know because it was no big deal!) but I'm not really one for public speaking usually. But I felt something needed to be said by one of us. I managed to read it out clearly and not too quickly (changing the "fucking" to "utterly", keeping in the "bastards") but I didn't look up at the people enough. Ah well, never mind, I'm glad I spoke.

After I'd finished and returned to my group of mates one of the SWP people came over to thank me. Then guess what she asked us?! Yep, that's right, did we want a bloody newspaper. I told her, "no thanks, we're anarchists!"
 
Peter Painter said:
One of the neighbours popped round this morning to tell us there was a Kill the Bill demo in town and did we want to come down. Well, something had to get us out of bed and we thought it probably rude not to.

There was s small crowd, more than a hundred but no more than a hundred and fifty. And of course, the SWP were there with their stall, their placards and of course their papers.

The first speaker was from the GRT Drive 2 Survive campaign. He gave a good speech that mentioned the trespass aspect but he mainly focused on the restrictions to protest included in the Bill, making the obvious point that what we there doing today was under threat.

Then there were some other speakers but none of them focused particularly on the Bill but more just general stuff about the government and the prime minister and parties and covid.

After that it was asked if anybody else had anything to say. I thought, "shit, someone from our site should say something". Nobody was keen. Somebody else took the megaphone and I suddenly thought that maybe I should just read out what I wrote on here yesterday (on the GRT thread). So once the megaphone was free again I stepped forward.

I was a bit nervous (stupid, I know because it was no big deal!) but I'm not really one for public speaking usually. But I felt something needed to be said by one of us. I managed to read it out clearly and not too quickly (changing the "fucking" to "utterly", keeping in the "bastards") but I didn't look up at the people enough. Ah well, never mind, I'm glad I spoke.

After I'd finished and returned to my group of mates one of the SWP people came over to thank me. Then guess what she asked us?! Yep, that's right, did we want a bloody newspaper. I told her, "no thanks, we're anarchists!"
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Nice one. Where was this? In Kent? I wasn't aware that there was any KTB stuff going on locally and I did try to find out with a google search.
 
AmateurAgitator said:
Nice one. Where was this? In Kent? I wasn't aware that there was any KTB stuff going on locally and I did try to find out with a google search.
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Not in Kent, no.

I heard someone say that it had only been called at 5pm last night so actually not too bad a turn out. And it was in town centre too so some of the public got to see and hear us. A few even stopped to listen. One bloke heckled us and said we were spreading covid.
 
hitmouse said:
Update from the legal support crowdfunder:

Just before Christmas, Ryan Roberts was jailed for 14 years for his part in the Bristol Kill the Bill demonstration on 21 March 2021. The state is coming down hard on everyone who took to the streets that night - and this January, Bristol Defendant Solidarity will be back in court to help people fight a fresh round of cases.

So far, 13 people have been sentenced to a total of over 49 years in prison. From the end of January to end of August 2022, we already have 26 riot trials set for Bristol Crown Court, with more to come. We urgently need your help to support them.

We're just £5,000 away from our target - can you share the crowdfunder in your networks and help us reach it? We'll be closing this crowdfunder on 4 February, and this is our last chance to find the money we need to support people as they face the legal system.

In Solidarity,

Bristol Defendant Solidarity
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Done. Thankyou for sharing.
 
Pretty sure I saw Paul Mason there several times, on his own, or somebody who is the absolute spit of him. It was quite distracting - every time, I thought "is that Paul Mason? Surely somebody else would have recognised him." I mean he can come along if he wants.
 
Maybe 500 in Leeds. Rather than meeting in a park as previous ones have done this one started at one of the main shopping streets in Leeds City Centre which worked better as it got passers by interested.

From demo there was a spontaneous march around the city centre, which closed off some roads for a bit. No real policing and the march was quick enough that the cops did not get a chance to respond even if they had wanted to.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
Shout out to these lads who I don't think had anything to do with the march but were doing wheelies and shouting "kill the bill" anyway. A lot of kids do cycle around central London on weekends with their mates and I think are generally amenable to a "fuck the cops" position.
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It does seem like a very healthy sign if random kids cycling round are willing to show support on "fuck the cops" grounds, instead of wanting to wind the marchers up or whatever.
 
Peter Painter said:
Ok, thanks.

Is it only the amendments that they're voting on this week then?

When do I become a criminal?!
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As far as I understand it the amendments to this bill were added after the bill had left the commons which means that if they are defeated in the Lords, that's game over - the government cannot seek to reintroduce them. Which goes to show that at least in this instance, sneaky underhandedness does not pay.
 
teqniq said:
As far as I understand it the amendments to this bill were added after the bill had left the commons which means that if they are defeated in the Lords, that's game over - the government cannot seek to reintroduce them. Which goes to show that at least in this instance, sneaky underhandedness does not pay.
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Thanks.

But are you talking specifically about the amendments? I get it that if those are defeated they can't be reintroduced to the Bill. But surely this doesn't mean the entire Bill is defeated?

I was under the impression (possibly incorrectly) that this is the week that the Bill gets either passed of defeated.

I'm also aware that there is some kind of agreement (can't remember what it's called) that the Lord's won't vote against a Bill that relates to a manifesto promise (which of course the criminalisation of trespass was).
 
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