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SUMMARY:Scotland Yard demo - Stop the Shredding\, Release the Files
DESCRIPTION:On 15 January 1990 people saw smoke rising from the Stasi headquarters in Berlin. The Wall was coming down and the spycops were desperately destroying the evidence that damned them. \nThe new political spirit of openness did not extend to people being given their files – they were only saved\, and the extent of the Stasi’s depravity revealed\, because citizens forced them to. \nIt is no exaggeration to say that the tactics of the Special Demonstration Squad and National Public Order Intelligence Unit were askin to those of the Stasi. They fully integrated into the families of people they spied on\, often pre-emptively in case that person might start doing things of interest to police. \nThis week\, an officer from Britian’s political secret police described his colleagues deleting files to prevent the public seeing them\, just as the crumbling Stasi did. \nOn Friday 15 January – the 26th anniversary of the storming of the Stasi building – people will go to Scotland Yard demanding the openness about the Met’s own Stasi tactics\, calling for: \n\nPublication of the ‘cover names’ of officers from the political policing units\nPublication of the names of groups who were spied on\nThe end to destruction of files\, and their transfer to a neutral custodian\nEveryone spied on to be informed and given full access to their file\n\nIt will be done in the same spirit as the Police Spies Out of Lives solidarity demo at the High Court at 1pm\, ahead of Kate Wilson’s latest hearing in her four year legal battle to hold the Met to account. \nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
URL:http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/event/scotland-yard-demo-stop-the-shredding-release-the-files/
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SUMMARY:Solidarity Demo at the High Court
DESCRIPTION:On 15 January 1990 smoke was seen rising from the Stasi HQ in Berlin as officers desperately tried to destroy the evidence of their abuses. Citizens stormed the building\, stopped the destruction and\, for the first time\, saw the files that showed the scale and depth of what the political secret police had been doing to them. \nOn 15 January 2016 the High Court holds the latest hearing in the case of Kate Wilson\, a social justice activist who was deceived into a long term relationship by undercover officer Mark Kennedy. More than four years in\, the police are still obstructing her fight for truth and justice. \nBut it’s about more than Wilson. The other women who have received an apology from the Met have received little in the way of answers. \nBeyond that\, all the information about spycops comes from the 12 exposed officers\, less than 10% of the total deployed since the Special Demonstration Squad was founded in 1968. \nThe only way we will ever get the truth is if those who were spied on can tell the stories of what was done by officers they knew. The only way that can happen is if they are told they were spied on. \nThe police must release all the ‘cover names’ of officers from the disgraced politcal policing units\, and the list of groups targeted as well. Those who were spied on must be given access to their full files so they can judge for themselves what was done. \nPolice Spies Out of Lives\, the group of Wilson and the seven women who got the recent police apology\, have issued a statement and called a demo outside the High Court on the day of the hearing\, remembering what was done by people power against the Stasi\, and anticipating what will be done against the Stasi tactics used by the Met. \n“The lessons from Germany during the fall of the GDR are clear: legal processes\, courts\, and government inquiries alone cannot be trusted to uncover the truth. It took direct action and pressure from the grassroots to forcibly expose the abuses of the Stasi. Today\, as the court decides how to proceed over the question of disclosure in this case\, we remember the bravery and conviction of the people of the GDR; and to the police and the Pitchford inquiry we have this message: enough is enough\, it is time to release the cover names and open the files.” \nShare this:FacebookTwitterTumblrEmailMoreLinkedInRedditPinterestPocketPrint
URL:http://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/event/solidarity-demo-at-the-high-court/
LOCATION:Royal Courts of Justice\, Strand\, London\, WC2A 2LL\, United Kingdom
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