Three Protests Converged in Broadmead Bristol Over the Weekend
A series of protests took place in Broadmead, Bristol this weekend, seeing people rally together against war, transphobia and democide.
Boycott Barclays
People came together to protest and inform members of the public that Barclays bankrolls Israel’s genocide in Palestine.
The action took place outside of the Broadmead branch, with two security guards closely watching.
The bank invests over £2bn and provides financial services of around £6.2bn to arms companies supplying the weapons and military technology used in the attacks.
The protestors are calling on Barclay’s customers to boycott the bank, which they say is complicit in genocide.
Trans Community Liberation Rally
Bristol’s trans community and its allies came together for a liberation rally march from College Green to Broadmead.
Protestors are taking action against a decision made by the Supreme Court earlier this month that the terms ‘women’ and ‘sex’ in the Equality Act refer only to biological women.
The ruling, they say, has implications for trans people and single-sex spaces as those who identify as trans women will no longer be recognised as part of the act.
Crips Against Cuts
Disabled people once again came out to protest against cuts proposed by the Labour government. This would see some benefits that support Disabled young people and adults cut entirely and others be much harder to claim.
One of the speakers told the crowd: “This government is actively killing cripples. Not accidentally, not through ignorance, deliberately… What the UK government is doing to cripples is called democide. It’s what happens when a government intentionally kills its own people. It’s death by government policy.”
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