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Policing the Crisis conference

15th November 2015 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

Policing The CrisisFollowing last year’s We Do Not Consent conference, Defend the Right to Protest are putting on another big day, Policing the Crisis.

WORKSHOPS INCLUDE:

Undercover policing and the new inquiry Imran Khan lawyer to Doreen Lawrence, Janet Alder sister of Christopher Alder, Rob Evans The Guardian/author Under Cover Surseh Grover The Monitoring Project Jules Carey layer to Inquiry participants

The Public Order Act and the criminalisaton of protest with Mike Schwarz protest lawyer, Rachel Harger DtRtP Christopher Hilliard acquitted student protester and other protester defendants

Prevent and the threat to our civil liberties with Moazzam Begg former Guantanamo prisoner, Gareth Peirce human rights lawyer and Malia Bouattia NUS Black Students

Detention Prisons, border police & migrant solidarity with Antonia Bright of Movement for Justice, Anti Raids Network and London2Calais

Whose communities? Policing the police with London Campaign Against Police and State Violence, Gloria Morrison Joint Enterprise – Not Guilty By Association and Shanice McBean Black Dissidents

Deaths in Custody – With Aamer Anwar civil rights lawyer, Justice for Sheku Bayoh family members and Marcia Rigg Sean Rigg Justice and Change #BlackLivesMatter

From Legal Aid to the Human Rights Act: defending civil rights against the austerity state with Debalena Dasgupta LIBERTY and Charlotte Haworth Hird Legal Aid Lawyer award for Inquests and actions against the state & INQUEST lawyers Group

Plus * Trade Union Bill * Global austerity and global resistance * and more workshops tba

Book in advance: Suggested Donation £3 un-waged, £5 waged, FREE if skint, £10 solidarity donation

 

Details

Date:
15th November 2015
Time:
11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Website:
http://www.defendtherighttoprotest.org/dtrtp-national-conference-policing-the-crisis/

Venue

SOAS University of London
Room L67, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street
London, WC1H 0XG
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Website:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/#RussellSquareCampusMap

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