Downview Protest

[KenDoddsDadsDogsDead18]

Big ups to the women protesting at Downview today. Sounds like it's been well received. Lovely day for it. I spied a pic of Julia Long radically sitting on a chair, hopefully this dangerous act will go unpunished.

Solidarity with you all & I hope this action yields results. No person who is anything other than biologically female should be in a women's prison. A wing that allows daytime access to women doesn't cut it.

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It’s sad Spokk. They had to keep it quiet for fear of threats and violent backlash. There must be hundreds of other women who would want to join a protest such as this, but publicity is too much of a risk.

So there are about 3k male people with GRCs. That at least 3 of them are dangerous criminals who are not safe to be put into a women's prison seems a high proportion to me, without doing the maths.

Something's wrong there.

I don't think a huge protest at the prison itself would have been a good idea. Protesters were very careful not to disrupt visiting hours or cause any distress to visitors. A big protest might have caused visiting to be cancelled altogether which would be awful.

A huge protest at the MoJ on the other hand ...

...Just make sure you go to the MoJ and not the Home Office