Memorialising Injustice
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Remembering state injustice - past and present
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John Couzin, in Memoriam | Jim Kelman writes for Bella remembering John Couzin and celebrating the Spirit of Revolt – Archives of Dissent which collects, manages & preserves records from Glasgow’s and Clydeside’s anarchist and libertarian-socialist past bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/12/j...
May 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
John Couzin, in Memoriam | Jim Kelman writes for Bella remembering John Couzin and celebrating the Spirit of Revolt – Archives of Dissent which collects, manages & preserves records from Glasgow’s and Clydeside’s anarchist and libertarian-socialist past bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/05/12/j...
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Our founding member John Pegram is now taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police for risk scoring via the Offender Management App. This is about all of us. If you believe you have been risk scored we'd like to hear from you.
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
If you believe you have been risk-scored by the police then read the article below on the first steps to putting things right. If you would like to get involved with our campaigns challenging predictive policing email -bristolcopwatch@riseup.net
#AutomatedInjustice #WeCopWatch
#AutomatedInjustice #WeCopWatch
cop-watchers.org/2024/04/23/p...
Over 364,000 people have been risk scored by Avon and Somerset Police's #OffenderManagementApp without community consultation, transparency and most importantly consent. If you believe you are one of those people you can take action. #AutomatedInjustice
Over 364,000 people have been risk scored by Avon and Somerset Police's #OffenderManagementApp without community consultation, transparency and most importantly consent. If you believe you are one of those people you can take action. #AutomatedInjustice
April 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our founding member John Pegram is now taking legal action against Avon and Somerset Police for risk scoring via the Offender Management App. This is about all of us. If you believe you have been risk scored we'd like to hear from you.
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
#WeCopWatch #AutomatedRacism
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What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇
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The Pleasure of Punishment: Unconscious Desire and the Performance of Judicial Power - Erasmus Research
The punishment system, far from preventing harm, often exacerbates it. Despite efforts in Scotland and elsewhere to reduce prison populations, judges and sheriffs persist in handing down custodial sen...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
What if punishment isn't about justice—but about power, control, and unconscious desire? Judges as moral actors… or as performers of dominance? New blog: The Pleasure of Punishment 👇
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
erasmusresearch.com/the-pleasure...
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One of our very #colourfularchives is this burgess ticket issued to Agnes Husband in 1926. This was also known as the Freedom of the City. Agnes was a suffragist, women's rights campaigner and one of the first women to be elected to public office in Dundee. #Archive30
April 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
One of our very #colourfularchives is this burgess ticket issued to Agnes Husband in 1926. This was also known as the Freedom of the City. Agnes was a suffragist, women's rights campaigner and one of the first women to be elected to public office in Dundee. #Archive30
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🔊NEW EPISODE
This week @lucybrisbane.bsky.social & Lee talk to Sandra Ruiz from the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission about the importance of collective community action & how that has helped relatives & survivors take ownership of the ways Grenfell is memorialised.
www.inquest.org.uk/podcast
This week @lucybrisbane.bsky.social & Lee talk to Sandra Ruiz from the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission about the importance of collective community action & how that has helped relatives & survivors take ownership of the ways Grenfell is memorialised.
www.inquest.org.uk/podcast
April 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info
April 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Excited to see that the extraordinarily detailed Spycops.Info website created by the Undercover Research Group is now live at spycopsresearch.info
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📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections."
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#WomensHistory #GLAM
WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…
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March 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Later that day, students from Jackson State College students organized a prayer vigil to support the Tougaloo 9.
Police attacked students with clubs & dogs.
Three students, including Dorie Ladner (1942-2024), were expelled by Jackson State.
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Police attacked students with clubs & dogs.
Three students, including Dorie Ladner (1942-2024), were expelled by Jackson State.
Read ⬇️
www.civilrightsteaching.org/resource/fre...
Freedom Fighter: The Life and Legacy of Ms. Dorie Ladner — Civil Rights Teaching
Interview by Maestra Productions Dorie Ladner was a passionate civil rights activist and leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. This interview a...
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March 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Later that day, students from Jackson State College students organized a prayer vigil to support the Tougaloo 9.
Police attacked students with clubs & dogs.
Three students, including Dorie Ladner (1942-2024), were expelled by Jackson State.
Read ⬇️
www.civilrightsteaching.org/resource/fre...
Police attacked students with clubs & dogs.
Three students, including Dorie Ladner (1942-2024), were expelled by Jackson State.
Read ⬇️
www.civilrightsteaching.org/resource/fre...
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#tdih 1961 In Jackson, Mississippi, 9 Tougaloo College students & members of the local NAACP Youth Council staged a READ-IN to protest lack of access to Jackson Public Library. #CivilDisobedience
They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
March 27, 1961: Jackson, Mississippi Library Sit-In
Nine Tougaloo College students and members of the Jackson Youth Council of the NAACP staged a sit-in to protest segregation at the Jackson Public Library in 1961 and were subsequently arrested.
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March 27, 2025 at 10:50 AM
#tdih 1961 In Jackson, Mississippi, 9 Tougaloo College students & members of the local NAACP Youth Council staged a READ-IN to protest lack of access to Jackson Public Library. #CivilDisobedience
They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
They paid taxes for a "public" library they could not use. ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ja...
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Women in Belarus prisons are facing abuse, and some, like Viktoria Kulsha, are in life-threatening situations. 🚨🇧🇾
UN experts are urging the government to take action and protect their rights. ⚖️♀️
Read more ➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#HumanRights #Belarus #PrisonJustice
UN experts are urging the government to take action and protect their rights. ⚖️♀️
Read more ➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#HumanRights #Belarus #PrisonJustice
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Women in Belarus prisons are facing abuse, and some, like Viktoria Kulsha, are in life-threatening situations. 🚨🇧🇾
UN experts are urging the government to take action and protect their rights. ⚖️♀️
Read more ➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#HumanRights #Belarus #PrisonJustice
UN experts are urging the government to take action and protect their rights. ⚖️♀️
Read more ➡️ www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
#HumanRights #Belarus #PrisonJustice
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‘L’ was given an OLR for breach of the peace. Given a 6 month tariff, he has spent 12 years in prison, where he was diagnosed with autism. It will be at least 4 years before he is released, but he is already scared that one minor misstep once out will see him back in prison #NOLR
March 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
‘L’ was given an OLR for breach of the peace. Given a 6 month tariff, he has spent 12 years in prison, where he was diagnosed with autism. It will be at least 4 years before he is released, but he is already scared that one minor misstep once out will see him back in prison #NOLR
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❤️🔥Hot off the press today: "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South" by @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social via @thenewpress.bsky.social
To teach about the Civil Rights Movement at ANY grade level, this is essential reading.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
To teach about the Civil Rights Movement at ANY grade level, this is essential reading.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
Book — Non-fiction. 2025. By Jeanne Theoharis. 400 pages. Illustrates how King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago — outside Dixie — was at the heart of his campaign for racial justic...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
❤️🔥Hot off the press today: "King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South" by @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social via @thenewpress.bsky.social
To teach about the Civil Rights Movement at ANY grade level, this is essential reading.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
To teach about the Civil Rights Movement at ANY grade level, this is essential reading.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/ki...
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Let’s honour the memory of Hossam Shabat.
Take his courage, his clarity, his determination - and keep speaking up and keep fighting until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
Take his courage, his clarity, his determination - and keep speaking up and keep fighting until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
March 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Let’s honour the memory of Hossam Shabat.
Take his courage, his clarity, his determination - and keep speaking up and keep fighting until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
Take his courage, his clarity, his determination - and keep speaking up and keep fighting until Palestine is free. 🇵🇸
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On #IWD2025, we reflect on the feminist origins of Southall Black Sisters.
SBS was born out of a need to campaign for and support victim-survivors within our communities at the margins of society. 1/6
SBS was born out of a need to campaign for and support victim-survivors within our communities at the margins of society. 1/6
March 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
On #IWD2025, we reflect on the feminist origins of Southall Black Sisters.
SBS was born out of a need to campaign for and support victim-survivors within our communities at the margins of society. 1/6
SBS was born out of a need to campaign for and support victim-survivors within our communities at the margins of society. 1/6
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Want to help? Go to nolr.org/how-you-can-..., where you can find a template letter to your MSP, make a donation or contact us and join us as a member.
How You Can help - OLR Campaign
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published a report in 2022 which likened indeterminate sentences to psychological torture.
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March 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Want to help? Go to nolr.org/how-you-can-..., where you can find a template letter to your MSP, make a donation or contact us and join us as a member.
We're following #NOLR. You can find out more about OLRs here 👇
New campaign starting today highlighting the injustice of the Order of Lifelong Restriction (OLR) in Scotland. Read our blog explaining the problems with the OLR. Follow the campaign #NOLR erasmusresearch.com/highlighting...
Highlighting the Problems of the OLR Sentence in Scotland - Erasmus Research
By Nicola Ceesay (Doctoral Candidate, University of Glasgow) and Margaret Malloch (Professor of Criminology, University of Stirling). A recently formed group, NOLR, is leading a social media campaign ...
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March 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We're following #NOLR. You can find out more about OLRs here 👇
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Scotland’s Hidden Life Sentence: Orders of Lifelong Restriction (OLRs) were meant for ‘exceptional’ cases—offenders serve a punishment term then remain locked up indefinitely until they can prove they are no longer a risk. But what is offered in terms of rehabilitation? #NOLR # HumanRightsWatch
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Scotland’s Hidden Life Sentence: Orders of Lifelong Restriction (OLRs) were meant for ‘exceptional’ cases—offenders serve a punishment term then remain locked up indefinitely until they can prove they are no longer a risk. But what is offered in terms of rehabilitation? #NOLR # HumanRightsWatch
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In 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur advised that “To be lawful, sanctions cannot be open-ended, indefinite or grossly excessive to their purpose, but must be clearly defined, circumscribed and proportionate”. This means OLRs and IPPs are unlawful #NOLR #PrisonReform
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur advised that “To be lawful, sanctions cannot be open-ended, indefinite or grossly excessive to their purpose, but must be clearly defined, circumscribed and proportionate”. This means OLRs and IPPs are unlawful #NOLR #PrisonReform
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The Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR)—a true-life sentence—has been imposed 279 times since 2006. Meanwhile, England scrapped its equivalent IPP sentence in 2012. Time for change! #NOLR #ScotRights
March 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR)—a true-life sentence—has been imposed 279 times since 2006. Meanwhile, England scrapped its equivalent IPP sentence in 2012. Time for change! #NOLR #ScotRights
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A German guard asked Maureen O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the SOE.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 🗃️
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Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the SOE.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 🗃️
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March 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A German guard asked Maureen O'Sullivan what was in her suitcase. She laughed. “A wireless, of course!”.
Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the SOE.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 🗃️
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Very early #OnThisDay, 23 Mar 1944 , Maureen 'Paddy' O'Sullivan parachutes into occupied France to be a radio operator for the SOE.
#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistoryMonth #WW2 🗃️
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🔴 NEW: A 22-year-old man died alone in his cell at Scotland’s only private prison after waiting months for mental health support. Now his family plans to sue HMP Addiewell, claiming it failed in its duty of care.
Read the full story: bit.ly/41RmLev
Read the full story: bit.ly/41RmLev
March 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🔴 NEW: A 22-year-old man died alone in his cell at Scotland’s only private prison after waiting months for mental health support. Now his family plans to sue HMP Addiewell, claiming it failed in its duty of care.
Read the full story: bit.ly/41RmLev
Read the full story: bit.ly/41RmLev
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#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, about 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory 🗃️
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory 🗃️
March 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
#OnThisDay, 22 March 1982, about 250 people blockade Greenham Common airbase in the UK. 34 are arrested. It was the first mass non-violent protest by the Greenham Common peace women.
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory 🗃️
Photo: Paula Allen.
Read more: carvehername.org.uk/...
#WomenInHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #BritishHistory 🗃️