Yesterday a group of us headed to Britannia Cafe – described as a “social enterprise staffed by low risk prisoners”. With both a view of the prison and a view over Norwich, we did a banner drop from the tour bus: SMASH IPP, SET THEM FREE.
The fortnight of action against IPP sentences will culminate in a noise demo at HMP Peterborough on Sunday 23rd July. This will be in the name of Charlie Noakes, who took her own life whilst still on an IPP sentence.
In addition to the local events we’ll be organising for the fortnight, we will also be heading across to Peterborough for this.
If you’re interested and want to join us there and back then we hope to be able to offer transport for other local people wanting to go. However in order to do so we’ll need to have an idea of numbers so please send us a message or email so that we can begin organising vehicles.
We will be undertaking a number of actions between 9th and 23rd July in response to Smash IPP’s callout for action for and solidarity with IPP prisoners. This will include things such as letter writing and flyering as well as participating in a prison noise demo. More details will be confirmed over the coming weeks. For ease of reference, we’ll be using the hashtag #smashippnorfolk for everything related to this fortnight.
Smash IPP have called for a fortnight of action in July. We’ll be doing our part to support this in Norwich and Norfolk.
If you’d like to join us in our plans, or if you’d like support with your own plans, then please contact us. We’d recommend sending an email using PGP encryption (our key can be found here).
Stay tuned for more updates.
Today alongside Anti-Capitalist Cambridge we supported Smash IPP and Shirley, mother of an IPP prisoner, in heckling Lizz Truss outside the MP’s constituency surgery at Breckland Leisure & Waterworld, Thetford.
Title: UK’s Forgotten Prisoners, with Smash IPP
Location: Space Studio, Norwich
Link out: Click here
Description: We’re well excited to open our 2017 film run with a visit from Smash IPP, an anarchist organisation working to end Imprisonment for Public Protection sentences and support those affected by them. Here is more about them in their own words…