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Policing the Crisis conference
15th November 2015 @ 11:00 am - 7:00 pm
Following 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