This week has seen a number of cases from the rebellious city come before the dock related to both clashes with police and the 2020 toppling of Edw…
Quick Roundup: Bristol Cases
Tag: BLM
Movements First, Solutions Later
Netpol’s Kevin Blowe argues that Britain’s nascent abolitionist movement needs to focus its energy into long-term grassroots organising…
Cops shut down Westminster protest for Mohamud Hassan
Yesterday evening officers from the Met’s infamous Territorial Support Group shut down a protest called in memory of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan,…
Understanding psychic numbing: can we grow numb to trauma?
2020 has been so far a year marked by an endless succession of issues; it would be hard to take them all into account, as each deserves a great dea…
BLOOD AH GO RUN
1981, 2017, 2020 In the 39 years since Menelik Shabazz documented the Black People’s Day of Action in the aftermath of the New Cross massacre, in…
Bristol: city council seeks prosecution of slave trader’s statue-topplers
The Bristol City Council have formally reported the toppling of the slave trader Edward Colston’s statue as criminal damage, triggering a pol…
‘Something has changed in the power dynamic’: interviews with anarchists from Minneapolis and NYC
On 25 May George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Notes from the US
Freedom’s long-running US correspondent Louis Further does his monthly roundup of some of the lesser-known stories that have emerged over the las…
Black Lives Matter does not stop at your fingertips, it is a lifelong commitment.
When you finish reading this whether it is on a phone or laptop, once you close or lock the device you must realise the fight does not stop at your…
Financial support for the protests in Minneapolis
As many readers will be aware, today marks the third day of protest in the US city of Minneapolis following the brutal murder of George Floyd by wh…
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Notes from the US: Surplus population
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