End Zero Accountability: Stop the Crackdown on Protests in London
📅Thursday 16 April
🕡 6:30–9:30pm (BST)
📍 Proposition Studios, E2 0EL, London
In London, protest is being restricted more than anywhere else in the UK – yet the police’s decisions behind those restrictions remain largely hidden from public scrutiny.
The Network for Police Monitoring’s (Netpol) new report exposes the lack of transparency and accountability in how the Metropolitan Police imposes conditions on protests.
Join Netpol and War on Want for an evening bringing together campaigners, legal experts, researchers and elected representatives to ask:
– How are protest powers are being used in London?
– What political action is needed to challenge ’zero accountability’?
– Who holds the police to account?
– What impacts are the new protest laws having on our rights and social movements?
Speakers include:
– Graeme Hayes, Aston University
– Maya Fitchett, Research Co-Ordinator, Netpol
– Katie McFadden, Solicitor, Hodge Jones & Allen
– Chris Nineham, Co-Founder, Stop the War Coalition
– Caroline Russell, London Assembly Member
The panel discussion will be followed by a drinks reception where attendees and speakers can meet to discuss the issues.
