Page 5 | One Year Later: 11th April - National Day of Action

Whatthechicken · 2026-03-04T13:03:34+00:00

On Saturday 11th April, at 1pm there will be One Year Later protests in six different locations: London - Parliament Square Edinburgh - Scottish Parliament Cardiff - Central Square Manchester - St Peter's Square Plymouth - Hoe Park, Smeaton's Tower Houghton Le Spring - Brigete Philipson's Office, Newbottle Street The protests follow on from the 199 Days Later protests in November 2025 and the different locations will be a mix of speeches, protests and street terfing (London is a march and speeches). It's been almost a year since the Supreme Court Ruling, if you can, please attend a protest and let the government know that their inaction is unacceptable, unlawful and puts women and girls at risk. Further info will be available on X @acts_grassroots

Helleofabore · 11/04/2026 09:11

So many of us!!! All in one space!

SexRealistic · 11/04/2026 09:11

There’s a protest in Belfast at 1pm.

borntobequiet · 11/04/2026 09:05

Have a great day everyone going. I shall be with you in spirit.

I have a date for my knee replacement now so hopefully will be able to attend subsequent events! (Though the other one needs replacing as well.)

KnottyAuty · 11/04/2026 08:29

Looking forward to London today - thanks so much to the organisers. And Bon Courage to the German contingent - how terrifying to have their rights set to zero by their government to accommodate this gender ideology

pic from another thread for inspiration - and Tony Benn’s apposite quote:

there is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle, to be fought over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

One Year Later: 11th April - National Day of Action

whitehandledkitchenlang · 11/04/2026 07:42

Sandwiches and flask made. Coffee being drunk. One of my motivations for attending events like this is knowing that we represent many thousands of women who, for age old reasons, can't.

Thank you once again to the organisers. Resilience and resistance.

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Whatthechicken · 11/04/2026 05:41

I hope you all have a wonderful time, whichever location you are at! Our European sisters are fantastic too, and they really do admire our campaigns and actions we do here. We hope we have now broadened our networks further to assist each other. We have had some brilliant women in this country that have shifted the Overton window, but in Germany they now have self ID and they really do have to be careful with what they do...we can never, ever, let the progress we've made slip.

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JumpingPumpkin · 11/04/2026 00:37

Heading up to Manchester tomorrow, looking forward to it.

EmpressaurusKitty · 10/04/2026 23:07

Thank you to @Whatthechicken & all the organisers!

MuchAppreciatedThanks · 10/04/2026 22:50

Mine and a dozen mates too!

SidewaysOtter · 10/04/2026 21:49

Mine too!

moto748e · 10/04/2026 21:40

Train tickets booked! 😀

Ereshkigalangcleg · 10/04/2026 16:02

Great question @senua

senua · 10/04/2026 15:18

MN are doing a Q&A with Rachel Reeves.
Fancy popping over there and giving Justine some questions to ask?

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MuchAppreciatedThanks · 09/04/2026 15:14

Speakers at the various locations include Maya Forstater, Emma Hilton, Sarah Phillimore, Fiona McAnena, Helen Staniland, Stephanie Davies-Arai, Tracy Edwards, Maeve Halligan, Julia Long, Mr Menno, Murray Blackburn Mackenzie, Su Wong, Dr Pam Gossal, Joanna Cherry KC, Sara Morrison......😍

MancFem · 09/04/2026 14:42

GloomyWednesday · 08/04/2026 11:18

I’ll be there!

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Im hoping to be there too, fingers crossed!

MassiveWordSalad · 09/04/2026 14:26

I really wish I could be there! I hope it goes well and thanks for organising 💜🤍💚

ProfDrLapwing · 09/04/2026 13:42

I didn’t know about the Smeatons Tower suffragette plot or that Plymouth played such role in the movement.

I’m sorry I can’t be there on Saturday but wish you good luck for the day.

lanadelgrey · 09/04/2026 11:07

Don’t worry about going - the organisers are lowkey and as far as I could tell from 199 days are happy to organise without any other overtly political agenda. A true idea of an umbrella under which sex realist women can gather. I’m going!

borntobequiet · 09/04/2026 08:29

I would love to go, but my knees won’t let me - waiting on replacements. Wishing you a great day.

StellaAndCrow · 08/04/2026 11:35

Crikey, I wondered why Houghton-le-Spring was on the list - it’s Bridget Phillipson’s constituency?

That makes her refusal to implement the law even worse.

I used to work there - it’s such a deprived area, even compared to the rest of the Sunderland area. Ex-mining area, history of multi-generational unemployment

The sort of place where women are likely to be particularly vulnerable, to have suffered trauma/DV, and to need single-sex spaces.

So it can’t be that Bridget Phillipson doesn’t understand the need for single-sex spaces.

Honestly, I’m disgusted that she’s pandering to all these privileged men.

GloomyWednesday · 08/04/2026 11:18

moto748e · 05/04/2026 00:22

Been following this with interest, will at the Manchester one. As it's only down the road, but be rude not to!

I’ll be there!

SidewaysOtter · 08/04/2026 09:43

@Whatthechicken Thank you for all your efforts, they're much appreciated.

I went to the London 199 Days March and it was brilliantly organised, the TRAs were kept well away from us (in fact we hardly saw them because some coaches parked in front of them ) and everyone was very friendly. Although I was with a group we got chatting to lots of other people so I wouldn't worry about joining alone. We gathered in Parliament Square, marched, had some speeches, sang and then everyone went home/to the pub.

And the Met Police - who get a lot of criticism (and sometimes rightly so) - were very good.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 08/04/2026 06:16

Whatthechicken · 08/04/2026 01:06

Thanks all for your nice comments. We've all worked so hard on this, and because of the many locations - there has been so much more information to gather, handle and coordinate. I even joined a German speaking X space!! They managed to find out about us! Also, the organisers are split over several locations this time - so it's been a big effort and worry! The big accounts have really helped with the sharing too, so hoping for big turnouts. If anyone is concerned about showing up on their own, drop the X account a DM (of course we will do some due diligence), but we will try get some people to meet you.

And for those that are still wary, because they don't know who we are...we aren't generally interested in being known, we just want the gov to get on with it after the fantastic FWS win last year. We let the speakers in their expert areas do the talking for us, such as Maya, Julia Long, Joanna Cherry, Emma Hilton, Tracy Edwards etc. we just arrange a time, place and the logistics. If we are still not for you, then that's fine, I hope you find an event that suits you - or you could create your own and we will support you! But we are going to have a great time on Saturday, reminding Bridget to get on with it!!

Good luck! I can’t attend but hope the events go well. Ignore the petty comments.

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Whatthechicken · 08/04/2026 01:07

IwantToRetire · 07/04/2026 20:43

Its a complete myth about not being able to use facebook!

Of course you can.

If you want to stay of a social media platform that is actually being boycotted by feminists and feminists groups and can NOT be read by people who are not signed up that it your choice.

And posting that there are events in all these other places and not provide details, how do you find out where to go.

If the text is already typed up somewhere why cant you post it here on FWR. Nobody is here under their own name.

Its sounds like all the really strange rules that WRN has.

I'm not meaning this to be a personal attack, but can you not understand how mystifying this is.

You say you want women to join in, but you dont want to tell them how ...

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Whatthechicken · 08/04/2026 01:06

Thanks all for your nice comments. We've all worked so hard on this, and because of the many locations - there has been so much more information to gather, handle and coordinate. I even joined a German speaking X space!! They managed to find out about us! Also, the organisers are split over several locations this time - so it's been a big effort and worry! The big accounts have really helped with the sharing too, so hoping for big turnouts. If anyone is concerned about showing up on their own, drop the X account a DM (of course we will do some due diligence), but we will try get some people to meet you.

And for those that are still wary, because they don't know who we are...we aren't generally interested in being known, we just want the gov to get on with it after the fantastic FWS win last year. We let the speakers in their expert areas do the talking for us, such as Maya, Julia Long, Joanna Cherry, Emma Hilton, Tracy Edwards etc. we just arrange a time, place and the logistics. If we are still not for you, then that's fine, I hope you find an event that suits you - or you could create your own and we will support you! But we are going to have a great time on Saturday, reminding Bridget to get on with it!!

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