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2021

• Sisters Uncut: ‘Why we’re launching national intervention training after Sarah Everard’s kidnap by cop’
• Sisters Uncut: It’s time we policed the police
• Wayne Couzens is not ‘one bad apple’ in the Met police, so we’re training people to intervene in arrests
• The Police Do Not Protect Us & It’s Time To Say “Enough”
• Sisters Uncut stage a protest at the sentencing of Sarah Everard’s killer
• Sarah Everard: Sisters Uncut unleash smoke bombs ahead of Wayne Couzens sentencing
• Sisters Uncut held a protest against police violence outside the Old Bailey today

2018

• ‘Meet the modern day Suffragettes fighting for equality’, Stylist, 5 February 2018

2017

• ‘Here’s the real story of homelessness and domestic abuse that the statistics hide’, Guardian Housing Network, 15 December 2017
• ‘Feminist protesters disrupt Tower Hamlets Council over Hopetown women’s hostel closing’, East London Advertiser, 9 November 2017
• ‘Services not sentences: Sisters Uncut occupy Holloway women’s prison’, gal-dem, 3 June 2017
• ‘Sisters Uncut Occupied Holloway Prison This Weekend’, The Debrief, 30 May 2017
• ‘Sisters Uncut take over Holloway prison to stop it being turned into luxury flats’, Metro Online, 28 May 2017
• ‘Campaigners take over closed Cheltenham Road Library to block £9m deal for luxury flats’, Bristol Post, 22 March 2017
• ‘Protest in Brighton calls for more help for victims of domestic violence’, ITV News, 8 March 2017
• ‘London refuges have funding slashed as rates of domestic violence soar’, Independent, 7 March 2017

2016

• ‘Feminist group claims ‘huge victory’ in its domestic violence campaign’, Southwark News, 16 November 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut: Domestic violence protest blocks Waterloo Bridge’, BBC London News, 20 November 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut block bridges across the UK to protest cuts to domestic violence services’, International Business Times, 20 November 2016
• ‘Protestors block Bristol bridges’, ITV News, 20 November 2016
• ‘Suffragette’ protesters Sisters Uncut: Why we blocked bridges around Britain – and you should care’, Telegraph Women, 21 November 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut has hijacked London’s tube adverts to protest cuts to domestic violence services’, Time Out, 21 November 2016
• ‘Tube ads have been replaced with feminist messages by Sisters Uncut’, Metro, 21 November 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut Protest Violence Against Women in the UK’ (video), AJ+, 21 November 2016
• ‘Female protest group Sisters Uncut march on Hackney Town Hall’, Evening Standard, 18 September 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut Celebrates ‘Win’ Over Hackney Social Housing With Town Hall Stunt’ (video), Huffington Post UK, 19 September 2016
• ‘How Sisters Uncut are changing the way politics is done’, The Debrief, 9 August 2016
• ‘She won’t survive if you don’t prioritise’, Bristol Cable, 12 August 2016
• ‘Protestors invoke Ken Loach’s Spirit of ’45 and oppose change to domestic violence services’, Chronicle, 22 August 2016
• ‘How can women flee domestic abuse if they have nowhere to go?’, The Guardian, 8 July 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut ‘reclaim’ empty council home and transform it into a community centre’, Huffington Post, 11 July 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut seize Homerton flat in protest against lack of housing for dometistic violence victims’, Hackney Citizen, 12 July 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut occupies empty council flat in Hackney to highlight domestic abuse cuts’, Hackney Gazette, 14 July 2016
• ‘Disbelieved: how domestic violence victims face homelessness’, Politics.co.uk, 5 May 2016
• ‘Sisters Uncut stage die in outside City Hall on Sadiq Khan’s first day’, The Debrief, 10 May 2016
• ‘Yarl’s Wood: Banner alleging sexual impropriety by guards hung from inside centre’, Independent, 13 March 2016
• ‘Domestic violence campaigners Sisters Uncut barricade Treasury entrance’, Independent, 14 March 2016
• ‘Budget 2016: George Osborne can ring fence money to fix roads – why not domestic violence services?’, Telegraph, 16 March 2016
• ‘Why Are There “WANTED” Posters For George Osborne in London?’, Refinery29, 16 March 2016

• ‘The government are quietly forcing women’s refuges to close’, politics.co.uk, 31 March 2016

• ‘Domestic abuse protestors interrupt Portsmouth budget meeting’, ITV News, 9 February 2016
• ‘Campaigners stage noisy protest at council meeting in Portsmouth Guildhall’, Portsmouth News, 10 February 2016
• ‘The domestic violence protesters who won’t take cuts lying down’, The Guardian, 17 February 2016

2015

• ‘Sisters Uncut activists ‘shut down’ Portsmouth council meeting before £180,000 domestic violence cuts debate’, Independent, 9 December 2015

• ‘Behind the formalities of the spending review, Osborne is putting women’s lives at risk’, politics.co.uk, 25 November 2015
• ‘Today We Remember the Women’s Services That Were Lost to Government Cuts – And the Women Who Didn’t Survive’, Huffington Post UK, 28 November 2015
• ‘Trafalgar Square fountains dyed blood red as Sisters Uncut demonstrators protest against women’s refuge cuts’, Independent, 28 November 2015
• ‘Trafalgar Square runs red with ‘blood’ in domestic violence cuts protest’, Guardian, 28 November 2015
• ‘Sisters Uncut: We’re not accepting George Osborne’s cuts – video’, Guardian, 28 November 2015
• ‘Trafalgar Square fountains dyed red in feminist protest against cuts to domestic violence services’, Mirror, 28 November 2015
• ‘Suffragette’ protesters are back: Why we turned Trafalgar Square’s fountains blood red’, The Telegraph, 30 November 2015
• ‘“They cut, we bleed”: activists Sisters Uncut protest closures of women’s services’, New Statesman, 30 November 2015
• ‘Sisters Uncut Protest Makes Trafalgar Square’s Fountains Run Red’, The Debrief, 30 November 2015
• ‘Why I protested with Sisters Uncut at the Suffragette premiere’, Independent, 9 October 2015
• ‘How Feminist Protesters Invaded the Red Carpet Premiere of ‘Suffragette”, Broadly (Vice), 8 October 2015
• ‘Red carpet protesters: We stormed the Suffragette premiere – and that’s just the start’, The Telegraph, 8 October 2015
• ‘Groups such as Sisters Uncut are the modern suffragettes’, The Guardian, 8 October 2015
• ‘‘Domestic violence kills 2 women a week’: Sisters Uncut on their Suffragette premiere protest, in their own words’, Metro, 8 October 2015

• ‘Why Sisters Uncut demonstrated at the Suffragette premiere’, New Statesman, 8 October 2015
• ‘Suffragette premiere: Protesters lie on red carpet in demonstration against cuts to domestic violence services’, Independent, 8 October 2015
• ‘Why Everyone Is Talking About Last Night’s Suffragette Premiere’, Marie Claire, 8 October 2015
• ‘‘Suffragette’ Stars Helena Bonham-Carter And Carey Mulligan Praise Protesters Sisters Uncut After London Premiere Demonstration’, The Huffington Post UK, 8 October 2015
• ‘Suffragette film protest: campaigners storm the red carpet at Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter film’, Evening Standard, 8 October 2015
• ‘Why I stormed the red carpet at the premiere of the Suffragette film’, BBC Newsbeat, 7 October 2015
• ‘Protesters crash the red-carpet at the Suffragette premiere in London’, Metro, 7 October 2015
• ‘Protesters storm red-carpet premiere of UK women’s rights film “Suffragette”‘, Thomson Reuters Foundation, 7 October 2015
• ‘Suffragette premiere STORMED by feminist protesters chanting ‘dead women can’t vote”, Express, 7 October 2015
• ‘Protesters disrupt Suffragette film premiere in Leicester Square’, BBC News, 7 October 2015
• ‘Domestic violence campaigners show up at the Suffragette premiere to protest government cuts’, Cosmopolitan, 7 October 2015

• ‘Burning the Daily Mail with Sisters Uncut’, New Statesman, 3 August 2015
• ‘Shocked paper’s jitters as protest burns Mail copies’, Morning Star, 3 August 2015
• ‘Video report: Shut down Yarls Wood’, Red Pepper, 21 August 2015

• ‘Feminists occupy roof of London Councils building and set off smoke flares to highlight cuts to domestic violence services’, London Evening Standard, 4 May 2015
• ‘Anti-austerity women shut down a London street’, New Statesman, 4 May 2015
• ‘A refuge provided safety for me and my family, others are not so lucky now’, Guardian, 7 May 2015
• ‘In 2014 feminists spoke up. This year we’re taking to the streets’, The Guardian, 29 January 2015

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