Write to your MP: Attend the right to protest briefing

Instead of ending its complicity in Israel’s crimes, the government continues to provide Israel with military, political and economic support, whilst simultaneously escalating its disgraceful attempts to suppress solidarity with Palestine. Last year the government introduced an extreme proposal to the Crime and Policing bill which would give police new powers to restrict protests based on their so-called ‘cumulative disruption’.

If it becomes law, the police will be empowered to restrict the right to protest on the basis of previous or planned future protests in the same ‘area’. This might include an entire town or the whole of central London, and it won’t matter whether the other protests are for the same cause or involves the same people. This follows a succession of anti-protest laws that have been used to impose increasingly draconian restrictions on our demonstrations, and the governments disgraceful use of anti-terror legislation to label non-violent direct action as terrorism, to prosecute performance artists, and criminalise entirely peaceful protesters. 

This month the government's amendment on 'cumulative impact' will be debated in the House of Lords. Together with a range of civil society organisations we have organised an in-person briefing for MPs and Peers as part of our work to build opposition to this extreme measure. Will you take one minute to ask your MP to attend the in-person briefing on Wednesday 7 January?

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