Protest for the Right to Protest

Green Party of England and Wales

Join Green Party leaders to protest the government's proposed Policing Bill, which  threatens  our  right to peaceful protest.

Parliament Square

The government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill (the Policing Bill) reaches a crucial stage in January. This Bill is a threat to basic civil liberties and has been made even worse by a series of amendments that have been slipped in at a late stage, without proper scrutiny or debate.In effect, the Bill gives the police, acting under instruction from government, the power to stop any protest. The criminal offences created by the Bill and its amendments carry a maximum sentence of 51 weeks in prison.These are dictatorial powers that would remove some of our most basic democratic rights and freedoms. They would enable the government, or future governments, to turn the UK into a police state. Green Party peers Baroness Jenny Jones and Baroness Natalie Bennett have been leading resistance to the Bill in the House of Lords. Join them and other Green Party people at this socially distanced protest to defend the right to protest and to draw attention to the dangers posed by this Bill.Meet at the statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square at 10.00am on Wednesday 12 January. The statue commemorates the suffragists&#x27; long struggle for political rights for women, in which protest played a crucial part.If you are coming to this protest, please wear a mask and observe sensible social distancing to minimise the risk of transmission. For this reason also, we are (with regret) limiting the numbers at this event to 50.

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