Public meeting to launch the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance in Scotland. Speakers include: Donal O'Driscoll Donal Is one of 201 'core participants' at the Pitchford Inquiry into Undercover Policing. These are individuals and groups known to have been spied upon by undercover police. Donal is also part of Undercover Research Group who have done extensive […]
Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance is proud to announce the next Voices of the Spied Upon public meeting. On 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 Thomas Helliker lecture A day of discussion about Civil Liberties Speakers include leading authors, journalists, campaigners, union activists. Among the speakers is Phil Chamberlain, co-author of the explosive Blacklisted book that uncovers illegal collusion between construction firms and police to prevent politically active workers from finding employment. with the book recently published in a […]
The 33rd London Anarchist Bookfair takes place on Saturday 29 October. It's a lot more than just books, with a large variety of meetings, talks and discussions on the bill. Among these, COPS and the Undercover Research Group will be doing a seesion on resisting undercover policing. 12-1pm Room DG5 Park View School West Green […]
The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a national coalition of families and friends of those that have died in the custody of police and prison officers as well as those who are killed in immigration detention and secure psychiatric hospitals in the UK. Every year since 1999, the UFFC holds its annual remembrance […]
Sixteen months into the Public Inquiry into undercover policing, and a whole year after the Metropolitan Police apologised to some of the women who'd been deceived into relationships with undercover officers. There has still been no disclosure about these human rights abuses. The police are doing their best to derail the Inquiry and obstruct the […]
'Rosa', one of the women who sued the police after being deceived into long-term relationships with undercover police officers, speaks out. This is the second of a series events to be held around England and Wales, aimed at bringing together survivors, activists, women’s sector groups, academics and others concerned with violence against women and girls […]
A community conversation with Jason Kirkpatrick, a lifelong grassroots environmental activist. Jason, now based in Berlin was a former Vice-Mayor of Arcata, California before working for two years in Northern Ireland on cross-community sustainability projects. He is the director of the forthcoming documentary film Spied Upon, which he began making when he discovered that his […]
Police Spies Out of Lives, the support campaign for women deceived into relationships with undercover police officers, will host an with two women, Alison & Andrea, talking about their personal experiences of relationships with spycops. The hour-long session is at noon on Thursday 9th February at the Human Rights room at the Lush Summit in […]
Spycops and Strikers is a public event in London on 15th February, part of a series of Grunwick 40 memorial events. In 1976, six workers walked out of Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden and ignited an historic two-year dispute which united thousands to demand better rights for poorly treated workers. The workforce had a […]