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SUMMARY:Public Meeting: Voices of the Spied Upon
DESCRIPTION:Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance is proud to announce the next Voices of the Spied Upon public meeting. \nOn Monday 10 October 2016 at the University of London\, we will bring together four very different people who have been affected by Britain’s political secret police. They will speak of their personal experience\, allied spycops struggles\, and the path ahead to justice. \nRicky Tomlinson \nRicky Tomlinson – before we knew him as Jim Royle or Brookside’s Bobby Grant – was a construction worker and trade unionist. \nIn 1972 he took an active part in the first ever national building workers’ strike. Tomlinson was among 24 people arrested for picketing in Shrewsbury. Government papers now show collusion between police\, security services and politicians to ensure these people were prosecuted. Six\, including Tomlinson\, were jailed. \nHe is one of several high-profile figures who\, despite concrete evidence of being targeted by spycops\, has been denied ‘core participant’ status at the Pitchford Inquiry. \nLisa Jones with Mark Kennedy \nLisa Jones was an environmental and social justice activist. In 2010 she discovered that her partner of six years\, Mark Stone\, was actually undercover police officer Mark Kennedy. \nShe gathered evidence\, confronted and exposed him. This began a slew of revelations that dragged the murky world of the political secret police into the light. \nEschewing media exposure\, Jones was one of eight women who took legal action against the police and\, after a gruelling four years in the courts\, received an unprecedented apology late last year. Now she is coming forward to tell the story for herself. \nDuwayne Brooks \nDuwayne Brooks was the main witness to the murder of his friend Stephen Lawrence. This began a campaign of persecution by the Metropolitan Police. \nSpecial Demonstration Squad whistleblower Peter Francis has described spending hours combing footage of demonstrations\, trying to find anything to get Brooks charged. \nOn two separate occasions he was brought to court on charges so trumped up that they were dismissed without him even speaking. \nThe Met have admitted that\, years after Stephen Lawrence’s murder\, police were bugging meetings with Brooks and his lawyer. A veteran of the machinery of inquiries\, a repeated victim of spycops\, his experience is especially important and pertinent. \nTamsin Allen \nTamsin Allen is a partner at Bindmans\, a law firm who were themselves monitored by the Special Demonstration Squad. \nShe has represented many clients who were spied on by political police. \nShe has also represented victims at the Leveson Inquiry and is currently representing members of parliament who were monitored by spycops. \nHer experience of public inquiries held under the Inquiries Act puts her in an invaluable position as the Pitchford inquiry looms. \nDATE: Monday 10 October\, 7-9pm \nLOCATION: The Venue\, University of London\, Malet Street WC1E 7HY \nEntry is free\, but as places are limited it is advisable to book. Reserved spaces will be held until 18.50 on the day\, after which people without reservations will be given entry. \nBook your place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-of-the-spied-upon-tickets-27743181603 \nYou can also spread the word through the Facebook event. \n \nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
URL:http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/event/public-meeting-voices-spied-upon/
LOCATION:The Venue\, ULU\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HY
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