I am so very sad ... Would you consider walking with me and other women and girls at 6pm tonight - just out of your own front door, or in your local park?

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Tonight there was to have been a vigil on Clapham Common cancelled by the police.... Heartbreaking on so many levels.

All the planned vigils have been cancelled.

But we are all allowed to walk - in our households or with one friend socially distanced.

Would you tonight consider walking with a candle?

Perhaps encourage others to walk too?

Even tell them where you might be going?

And courage calls to courage everywhere... Janice Turner's tweet summed it up perfectly - pasted below

I suspect many women will head to Clapham anyway this evening. Will be interesting to see if the Met dares arrest or fine them, given one of their own officers has been charged with Sarah Everard’s murder. What would the Suffragettes do?

Seriously would any other vulnerable group protesting a grotesque death allegedly by a police officer be told be kind, contain your anger, post hashtags online. But ladies: stay home, be nice.

Fuck lighting a candle, quite honestly.

@CyberdyneSystems

With lockdowns everybody just wants something, anything to get involved with and jump on the band wagon

BLM
Clapping for the NHS
Sir Tom Moore
Sarah Everard

Not sure why she is being treated so differently to the other women that die each day and they don't get people trying to arrange a vigil

What a vile shitty comment.

Please don't make this about race. Every woman who has been murdered by a man is a tragedy. Other white, black and Asian women have been murdered this year, and haven't triggered such a response. It doesn't mean their murders don't matter.

George Floyd's murder was a the last straw that triggered such a a strong response, just as Sarah Everard's murder has.

Yes, my daughter and I will be going out for a local walk at 6pm. I'm going because it makes me feel that I'm doing something, because the events of the last few days and the outpourings on social media have made me feel both vulnerable and angry. I hope we might encounter other women out walking too, perhaps we could have a socially distanced chat. We're semi-rural, so even if tonight's planned vigils were going ahead, we're too far away to have attended safely. Quite frankly, I couldn't care less if anyone thinks I'm virtue-signalling: I'll be walking for my own comfort.

Sarah’s death is a tragedy (as is every other murder, whoever the victim and whoever the perpetrator).

However, the fact that people are calling for mass vigils in a pandemic is utterly scandalous. Shame on them.

I will be making a small donation to a womans charity, im unable to go out walking but hopefully this small act will help a womans life somewhere in a small way. There will also be a candle in my porch.

@CyberdyneSystems

With lockdowns everybody just wants something, anything to get involved with and jump on the band wagon

BLM
Clapping for the NHS
Sir Tom Moore
Sarah Everard

Not sure why she is being treated so differently to the other women that die each day and they don't get people trying to arrange a vigil

What are you even on about - clapping for the NHS or sir Tom has nothing whatsoever to do with it! The deaths of George Floyd and Sarah Everard have in common that they have triggered a reaction in people, a rage and a desperation that is reaching boiling point. The injustice of it is infuriating, and the vigil is a standing up for Sarah as well as ALL other victims of male violence. Are you not tired of it? Tried of being afraid walking alone in the dark at night? Afraid for your daughters and granddaughters? Do you think it needs to stop? That's what this is about. If you have other ideas for a different and better kind of action we can take, bring it on, we're all ears.

no, i dont like virtue signalling, i feel self conscious, i will go out but will avoid the park

I was just reading about Blessing this morning
awful lack of coverage.

@ChancesWhatChances

I’ll be there in spirit, light a candle at home. If it weren’t for DC and living in a not so great area I’d go for a walk around our park

This is the whole point though. If enough women/ decent people are about in these dodgy areas it takes the area back from the wrong uns.

This sort of thing a bit like clapping on a Thursday is just something for people that feel they should do something.
Fine for you go for it but it’s not for me .

@Justanotherworkingmom

Sarah’s death is a tragedy (as is every other murder, whoever the victim and whoever the perpetrator).

However, the fact that people are calling for mass vigils in a pandemic is utterly scandalous. Shame on them.

Yep , weren’t people calling those that were doing the Black Lives Matter marches? .