13 MARCH 2021 Police manhandle women at Clapham Common vigil Thousands of people gathered at 6pm on Clapham Common to publicly mourn the death of Sarah Everard and protest police violence, despite organised protests by #ReclaimTheStreets being called off. Feminist protest group Sisters Uncut who were in attendance said: “we will not be silenced, we […]
We gathered at Clapham Common on Friday, because of our grief and anger at the senseless murder of Sarah Everard. We gathered because after Sarah’s disappearance, the police told women that they should stay at home after dark to avoid being attacked. This isn’t the first time. Almost 50 years ago, when another murderer the […]
The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) plans to turn the Women’s centre on the Holloway Prison Site into a probation centre, instead of a place for community and transformation. Members of Sisters Uncut have sprayed the following stencils in key areas around Islington: MOPAC = police Policing =/= community healing We want community […]
——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Sisters Uncut believe that learning how to support each other through harm is a continual process. Mutual aid groups are currently building safe, non-hierarchical communities independent from the state and state services, such as the police and the Home Office across the country; and we know that domestic and sexual violence survivors will […]
——————————————————————————————————————————————————— COVID-19 is not only biological – it is social, economic and political. While it may appear that the devastating impacts of coronavirus exist in their own terrifying vacuum, the last decade of cuts to services across the UK will hugely impact who lives and who dies over the coming months. We must […]
Before dawn on 6th February 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) spearheaded a militarized attack against the Wet’suwet’en people, a sovereign Indigenous Nation occupied by the colonial forces of Canada—a nation founded on Indigenous genocide. The RCMP and Coastal GasLink have continually violated the Wet’suwet’en protocol of Free Prior and Informed Consent by invading […]