MPs will be voting again next week

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Hi John,
Next week your MP will have a chance to stand up and defend democracy against Priti Patel’s anti-protest laws.

We won a crucial victory last month when the House of Lords voted to remove some of the worst measures from the policing bill. The government lost 14 votes in total – the biggest number lost in the House of Lords on a single bill in more than two decades.

It follows more than 800,000 people signing our petition against the powers, more than 350 organisations condemning them, and tens of thousands around the country taking to the streets.

But on Monday, MPs will be voting again on the anti-protest powers, including restrictions on protests deemed too ‘noisy’ or ‘annoying’. And the home secretary has already written to ask all 650 of them to back the crackdown.

Will you contact your MP now and ask them to defend the freedom to protest? We’ve tailored the suggested email depending on which party they’re in.
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Thankfully, the House of Lords voted down Priti Patel's last-minute additions to the bill, including expanded stop and search powers and ‘protest banning orders’ which could have criminalised sharing information about a prescribed protest on social media. And because MPs had not already voted on these measures, the government cannot bring them back in.

But we need MPs to back the Lords amendments on other anti-protest measures which are still in the bill, including noise bans, restrictions on public assemblies, and a protest exclusion zone around Parliament. What’s more, the measures criminalising the way of life of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, as well as harming access to the countryside, remain.

The freedom to protest is always inconvenient for governments – and we have to fight to retain it generation after generation. Please write to your MP now and demand they resist these draconian measures next week.
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Thank you,
Jonathan Stevenson
Campaigner at Global Justice Now

More info
1. Home Secretary Priti Patel is making one final push to criminalise protest, with grimly ironic timing ([link removed]) , The i paper, 16 February 2022
2. Crime bill: Lords defeats for government's protest clamp-down plans ([link removed]) , BBC News, 18 January 2022
3. Briefing on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill ([link removed]) , Liberty, February 2022
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