10 August 2019|The CANARY|Mohamed Elmaazi
Weeks of sustained harassment, abuse, and threats have resulted in an event, due to be held in Brighton with Chris Williamson MP, being withdrawn by three separate venues. But organisers, participants, and the MP all refused to be cowed and ended up holding the event in the “open-air”.
A campaign of harassment, abuse and threats has failed to prevent an event with Chris Williamson MP in Brighton, despite three separate venues cancelling bookings for the event. Labour Party activist invited Williamson for a discussion about socialism and inequality. The first cancellation was by Brighthelm Church and Community Centre, after an intervention from Labour MP Peter Kyle. The second cancellation followed ‘abuse’ and ‘threats’, directed at the Holiday Inn staff in Brighton.
Hadfield told this author on 7 August 2019 that in order to avoid a repeat of what happened twice before, he would keep the third venue secret until the last minute. However, even the third venue – Friends Meeting House owned by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), also ended up pulling out. But in a victory for free speech and anti-racism the event still went ahead.
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