By @JustinTheLibSoc
Muhammad Ali will never die.
October is Black History Month in the UK, so I’m posting a poignant poem by Muhammad Ali on the massacre of 33 African-American prisoners which ended the Attica Prison Uprising. Also his closing statements to the Irish interviewer, Cathal O’Shannon, are also of significance.
It is called Freedom – Better Now
By @JustinTheLibSoc
Hello and thank you all for attending the annual conference of the London Campaign Against Police & State Violence or LCAPSV.
The aim of LCAPSV is to end the current practice of police and state violence. Our method is collective organisation. This conference is about coming together, finding each other and creating a new path. […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
This Sunday, the London Campaign Against Police & State Violence (@LCAPSV) are holding their annual conference. The theme is “The Right to Life: Under threat by the State”, speakers include Marcia Rigg who will talk about the recent CPS decision to refuse to prosecute the officers who lied about how the circumstances in which […]
[Content note: This article discusses police-led violence and sexual abuse]
ACTION: Join the United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) Procession 2014 on Saturday 25th October
By @JustinTheLibSoc
The cold edifice of glass and concrete, that is the offices of the Crown Prosecution Service, was met in the warm August sun with several indomitable figures from the United Families and Friends […]
“We are facing a war. The struggle for land and dignity continues.” – Abahlali Press Release
Yesterday Thuli Ndlovu, 36 and a mother to a teenage daughter, was shot dead while she watched TV in her home. A few hours previously spoke to her mother to tell her “today we are going to be shot” after seeing […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
“It’s offensive, it’s like our narrative is always being told from the perspective of being enslaved or being in servitude when there’s so much more to African history than just slavery.” – Sara Myers, lead campaigner of Boycott the Human Zoo
“The role of the white liberal in the black man’s history in South Africa […]
In December 2013 South Sudan, a country yet to celebrate 3 years of independence following separation from Sudan, was once more afflicted by violent conflict. 10 months later, with the death toll in the thousands and a nationwide humanitarian crisis affecting millions more (including over 100,00 displaced people in UN camps), the SPLM (Sudanese Peoples […]
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An unexpected outcome of the narrow defeat of the Scottish independence referendum is that some form decentralisation of the UK, specifically with a devolution of powers to its constituent nations, seems inevitable. Government ministers, media, and political commentators across the spectrum all talk of the process as a done deal. Much like the now-hegemonic […]
By @JustinTheLibSoc
[Content note: Sexual Abuse; experience of sexually abused is outlined]
I write this because Novara Wire, the BuzzFeed of the Left, seems to have fallen for the reprehensible “Betrayed by PC Cowards” argument. Craig McVegas wrote “Police were scared of being labelled racist because they are racist” which is both nonsensical and untrue. There are […]
Friday 12th September, 4pm
Athene Place
66 Shoe Lane
London
EC4A 3BQ
Facebook event:Â https://www.facebook.com/events/690368971038985/
On Friday 12th September, Deloitte, the biggest professional services company in the world, is facing a wave of angry demonstrations outside one of their offices in Central London.
The protests are organised by the contracted cleaning workers at Deloitte, who speak of a culture of bullying, unsafe working […]
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