#sistersuncut

London Reportback: On International Women’s Day hundreds of feminists joined Sisters Uncut outside New Scotland Yard and Charing Cross police station to protest the MET police’s severe role in violence against women. The protest occurred on the one year anniversary of the Sarah Everard vigil at Clapham Common which was violently attacked by police just days after an officer was arrested for the murder of Sarah. Once the march reached Charing Cross the crowd set off 1000 rape alarms as a symbolic act condemning the police’s sexual violence.

The police in the UK have for a long time used their power and influence to allow an environment of misogyny and violence, half the police forces in the UK are being investigated for abusing their powers for sexual gain. UK spycops have been documented getting into sexual relationships with activists ultimately to arrest them, sometimes police have even had children with the women they’ve been lying to for years. We’ve seen on protests and when handling supposed suspects that police can get away with various levels of assualt and reports against them get buried by superiors.

We withdraw our consent, we will not be governed by people who won’t keep us safe.

(edit: radfems can go away, Sisters Uncut is an openly trans inclusive group that frequently works with trans activist groups in London against male violence and transmisogyny. if you attended their march you’d find out you have many trans siblings desperate to help fight against sexual violence, disproportionate police power and rampant male violence, this group and the protest attendants simply would not humour the belief that trans people are predatory or a threat.)