A Woman's Place is at Conference 23 September 2019 Brighton

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(At one point it says it is for Labour Party Conference delegates and later on it says it is a public meeting.)

A Woman’s Place is at Conference
Public Meeting in Brighton
Monday 23 September 2019 (Venue to be announced)
Doors open at 6:30pm, for 7.00pm start.

Woman's Place UK (WPUK) invites Labour Party Conference delegates to hear speakers discuss the WPUK Manifesto, focusing on women's issues. Half the tickets are available for FREE to Labour Party members.

Speaker biographies:
Dani Ahrens Founding member of Brighton Pride, a lifelong Labour activist, tweets as @rebelyarns
Onjali Rauf Founder and CEO of 'Making Herstory'
Kay Green "Socialist policy must always be based on reality." Kay Green is a socialist activist, supporting gender-critical voices on the political left.
Kiri Tunks Woman's Place UK founder (Chair)

Woman’s Place UK was founded in September 2017 to ensure women’s voices would be heard in the consultation on proposals to change the Gender Recognition Act. We had 5 demands and we didn’t expect the campaign to last more than 3-4 months.

Thanks to the support and actions of thousands of people all over the UK we had a big collective impact on the debate and, while we don’t expect to hear the results of the consultation yet, we know that the government has heard the voices of thousands of women.

At the same time, the debate has exposed the poor state of women’s rights in the UK. We have decided therefore to develop a broader campaign on the foundations we have built.

We will keep up the pressure on the government around the GRA and on councils and organisations to uphold equality law.

But there are other battles we need to fight too.

So we have made some New Year Resolutions to help us broaden the campaign in 2019:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-womans-place-is-at-conference-tickets-71716155953

Also the Julie Bindel Twitter shows it from the outside, that's scary too

Bugger. Missed the free drinks 😡 sitting here with a bottle of red. One of the most positive things about the meeting was the number of Labour Party people who were at their first WPUK meeting but totally get it. People really are waking up.

Did any female MPs turn up ?

I predict - a year from now such meetings will go ahead and ignored by the protestors. They will have got bored and lost interest - instead going after the next shiny target like a flock of magpies. Probably the brownies or the Tellytubbies.

No MPs but lots of people active in local areas plus a few key players at the centre.

So glad to hear everyone is safe.

So glad, even in only at the end, the police did their job. Would like to think as ordinary human beings they would have behaved better, and as professionals they certainly should.

Hope those who were there were able to get something positive out of the meeting.

And glad to hear that Labour party members have maybe now got some idea of (1) why women and campaigning and (2) why they are so wrong to assume trans activists are the victims

Link to Julie Bindel's video of the harrassment outside. twitter.com/bindelj/status/1176241557860691968

And as usual the trans activists have no understanding of the impact of intimidation. eg the woman with PTSD in the meeting and the mother who had come with her daughter to the meeting and stood outside thinking she shouldn't but her child in danger.

Looks like that not only needs to be supporters of Lesbian events but supporters for WPUK meetings.

Admittedly, Brighton is the woke hub, so they would want to be showing off to each other. Would be great if they could be identified and we could create a rogues gallery of thugs who think intimidating women is political.

I am not personally signed up to everything WPUK does, but think there persistence and organising is a lesson to us all!

Hope the meet up tomorrow goes well also.

Hope everybody gets a good nights sleep. The sleep of the Just!

🍷 or ☕️ and yoga kitty

@LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD just as a matter of fact. The protestors threw unidentifiable liquid on some attendees trying to get in. No attendees (that I'm aware of) threw anything.

Oh what a surprise. Water is wet and protestors are a bunch of lying tossers.

(I was going to suggest if you were throwing something wet you ought to consider pee)

I am very unsettled by the footage from the WPUK meeting tonight.

This was just women gathering to discuss the protection of women's rights.

And it was subjected to anti-women protestors outside, a mob, trying to beat and kick in the windows of the room where the meeting was being held.

And the police did nothing to stop this physical assault by a violent mob on the place where women were gathered to discuss women's sex-based rights.

In light of the many terrible random and targeted acid attacks on people in the last few years I think you can only consider the throwing of liquids at women entering tonight's event as a deliberate act of terrorism. It might not be a bomb, it might not be acid, but the act of doing what they did was a deliberate act of sowing fear. Gutless nastiness.

Yes, this is blatant terrorism on women.

But so many of the chanting voices seemed to be women? So women are intimidating women? I don't understand.

Apparently you naughty lot were throwing buckets of waters over the poor wee folx who were minding their own business, having a perfectly peaceful protest.

Wasn't us. The residents who.live above the venue got fucked off with the inane chanting and bashing outside their homes.

The residents who.live above the venue got fucked off with the inane chanting and bashing outside their homes.

Bloody hell, there were residents in the building too? These protesters are a selfish, self-righteous mob, who have got their frilly knickers in such a twist because they are unopposed by the powers that be. Will it take a woman’s death for the police to actually step in and do something?

The footage from inside the venue, looking at the window, is truly sinister.

What in God's name were they hoping to achieve?

The water was thrown by residents of the flats above. BMECP centre is ground level and basement only. No organiser or attendee was in any position to throw water on protesters.

Neither did any organiser about 'bitch' at a protester as has been claimed on Facebook. We were ALL inside the building before the protesters arrived and none of us went outside until the end.

The security staff were incredible. Two women who did not give a fuck. One of them was furious with the protesters and when I explained what we were trying to achieve she got it completely. One of the men was having a whale of a time laughing at the protesters and keeping us all safe.

At the end of the day they didn't stop us, we met, we spoke, we networked. The louder they shout, the more we know we have to keep doing this.

Bloody hell. Saw the videos on FB. 2019, and women are having to put up with this kind of shit while the police stand by and watch. :(

It's really come to something when I'm looking at that footage and thinking brave women- for going to a meeting.
and deepest gratitude to everyone involved.

What in God's name were they hoping to achieve?

It's not going to play very well for them with the average person, the silly children. Keep showing the world exactly who you are.

Seems to me - looking at twitter - that some rabble rousing was instigated by students. Can’t the colleges speak to them about this - council them that acting like this is not only bloody sexist, bordering on criminal and pathetic but also social media means that this about them is out there for ever.

Someone from inside the meeting should have popped out, done a bit of misgendering and the cops would have sprung into action.

Funny, but sadly too true.

Just being following all the twitter links from spinster.

I see WPUK have tweeted pretty much every single senior Labour politician, including Corbyn, Watson, Starmer, Abbot, etc. personally, raising the issue of intimidation. Result? Tumbleweed.

Bloody hell. I've had a self imposed internet break for a couple of days and missed this last night. Shocking behaviour. Bravo to the brave women who met at WPUK. Unbelievable that the police did virtually nothing in the face of anti social behaviour. Perhaps the were busy looking for lesbians on chairs instead!