Come hear from Alfie and Zak a week before their third trial at our ‘Justice Delayed is Justice Denied’ meeting with speakers from Hillsborough and Orgreave, Gareth Piece, Mark Duggan’s aunt Carole, and Jo Lang who was at the anti-NF demonstration in Southall where Blair Peach died after a blow to the head by police.
Monday 4th February, 7 PM @ ULU, Malet St, London (nearest tubes: Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Goodge St)
About the speakers:
- Carole Duggan is the aunt of Mark who was killed by police in August 2011.
- Justice for Hillsborough Campaign;
- Norman Strike is a former miner who was at the battle of Orgreave;
- Gareth Peirce, represented the Orgreave miners, the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six, most recently Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan ;
- Jo Lang was at the anti-NF demonstration in Southall where Blair Peach died after a blow to the head by police;
- Student protester Alfie Meadows narrowly survived a similar attack to Blair Peach on 9th December 2010 yet charged with violent disorder;
On 11th February Alfie Meadows and Zak King face a third trial for unjust charges brought after the student protests.
In those protests against the tripling of fees, students were met with police kettles, batons and horse charges.
Alfie almost died following a blow to the head with a truncheon. Zak’s brother was also arrested and dragged through the courts only tobe found not guilty. Alfie and Zak have been subjected to long delays and retrials.
Gareth Peirce, the civil rights lawyer who represented 95 miners arrested at Orgreave in 1984 during the Great Strike, has talked about the impact of “the grotesque power of the state” on people’s lives.
The full truth about how miners were fitted up at Orgeave is only beginning to come out. Those who have campaigned to get justice for the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy have had to wait 23 years for the truth.
Both those scandals expose how the police were given licence by the Thatcher government to brutalise working class people from strikers to football fans. She needed them to clamp down on opposition to Tory attacks on the unions and working class communities.
Today the Coalition government is presiding over growing inequality and driving through unprecedented austerity measures.
We are still faced with the victimisation of protesters, police corruption and the continuing scandal of racism, stop and search and deaths in custody.
This helps to explain the anger that erupted in many cities following Mark Duggan’s shooting by police.
Come and discuss how we can build solidarity with those campaigning for justice. Be part of building a common struggle against the wider assault on our communities, jobs and services.
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