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Leeds WPUK cancelled

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LiverpoolReSisters · 28/09/2018 16:54

IMPORTANT NOTICE - It is with regret that we have to announce that our meeting in Leeds cannot go ahead due to late and unreasonable cancellation. We will be emailing attendees shortly with more information. We condemn this act of silencing women. More to follow.

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ToeToToe · 28/09/2018 17:47

Oh Laura's crowdfunding for (among other things) £1500 for new clothes. That's nice.

CaptainMarvelDanvers · 28/09/2018 17:46

I bet they knew they were going to cancel the event well before today. The last minute cancellation was probably to hinder them finding a new venue in time for the meeting.

ToeToToe · 28/09/2018 17:44

Get your soapboxes out Leeds lassies. The weathers good. Do it on the steps of the town hall.

I would LOVE to see this. Please do this. Suffragettes managed with a megaphone.

But, yeah, Leeds, Mermaids, WYP..

So sorry to hear this - I hope you can all meet in pubs or something...

MrsAird · 28/09/2018 17:44

Is it time for a judicial review?

For JR the respondent has to be a public authority (check), the action has to be brought within 3 months (check), and the action complained of has to be so unreasonable that no public authority could reasonably have done it. Discriminating against women wanting a public meeting to discuss changes to the law seems to me to comfortably fit those criteria.

It would be important to crowdfund enough money to buy an insurance policy against paying the other side's costs.

There are other threads with willing lawyers on them, eg

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3375380-is-anyone-judicially-reviewing-this-stuff

TurfClub · 28/09/2018 17:41

This is the person who seems to be behind the cancellation

www.gofundme.com/Lauranorder

FermatsTheorem · 28/09/2018 17:39

Leeds = Mermaids
Leeds = WYP
Leeds = Mesmac (sexual health charity which thinks it's okay for service providers to form sexual relationships with service users)
Leeds = council which introduced a legalised red light district within which a prostituted woman has been murded and local women have been sexually assaulted, kidnapped and raped.

Leeds is beginning to look like the women hating capital of the UK.

Chocolala · 28/09/2018 17:35

Guys - this is actually potentiall Fun. They’re subject to FOIA - so someone should draft a careful
FOI request and send it in...

womanformallyknownaswoman · 28/09/2018 17:33

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ShackUp · 28/09/2018 17:32

Leeds is HQ of Mermaids.

Datun · 28/09/2018 17:32

Dear lord. Someone mentioned about been chained to railings and going on hunger strike. Is this really what women will have to do in order to be bloody well heard?

Well they won't stop this woman. And many others like me. This is just galvanising so many more women into action.

groundcontroltomontydon · 28/09/2018 17:30

And this isn't a violation of the Human Rights Act (s 6(1) ('It is unlawful for a public authority to act in a way which is incompatible with a Convention right'; sch 1, art 11 ('Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to freedom of association with others') how exactly??

RaininSummer · 28/09/2018 17:25

This is disgusting. So glad to hear that some of you will still get to meet. I imagine the speakers had already arrived on Leeds. It is becoming more and more important for women to form local campaign groups.

HumphreyCobblers · 28/09/2018 17:25

Jesus wept.

I hope this bloody backfires on them.

How DARE a council do this?

HandsOffMyRights · 28/09/2018 17:24

Don't let the council go quietly. Hold it on their doorstep

Elletorro · 28/09/2018 17:20

Someone can get hold of a mic and a loudspeaker and you’re away.

Courage

Elletorro · 28/09/2018 17:19

Get your soapboxes out Leeds lassies. The weathers good. Do it on the steps of the town hall.

Redkeyboard · 28/09/2018 17:18

What views specifically Leeds Council?

MsMcWoodle · 28/09/2018 17:15

So glad the meeting is going ahead!

TheBodyguardWasRubbish · 28/09/2018 17:15

This looks very sinister & calculated. I think they planned to cancel all along & did so at the last minute in order to try to prevent the meeting going ahead.

GulagsMyArse · 28/09/2018 17:15

Jesus, this is appalling

stillathing · 28/09/2018 17:13

We're meeting up in Leeds anyway

Glad to hear it!

PetraDelphiki · 28/09/2018 17:12

Shocking!!!!!

HandsOffMyRights · 28/09/2018 17:12

It's despicable. Utterly cowardly.

The irony that the council celebrates that it's been 100 yrs since women were treated like shit for organising, silenced, pelted, force fed, beaten, berated, humiliated and labelled, that this council is basically abusing us again.

I'm so angry about this civil liberty being stripped. We need legal action now.

buttonmoonb4tea · 28/09/2018 17:12

Appalling

crossparsley · 28/09/2018 17:11

Leeds Council's 'values on gender and equality' are in clear conflict with the Equality Act. Bunch of vile-os. Happy to support a quick challenge to this nonsense.