Category Archives: Prison News
Solidarity with Belarus Anarchists
Speakers from Belarus anarchist movement on tour of Western Europe speak about the repression there and the number of anarchists in jail 7pm, Friday February 15th at Autonomy Club, Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High St, London E1 Co-hosted by Anarchist Federation (London) London Anarchist Black Cross
NEW YEARS PRISON DEMO
The London Anarchist Black Cross will hold a noise demo on New Years Eve in support of prisoners and to highlight the abusive nature of the prison system. Meet at 7.30 outside Pentonville on Caledonian Rd or 9pm outside Holloway Parkhurst road. Both in N7 & Caledonian Rd tube.
Attica Prison riot
(taken from Freedom, October 2011) It was inevitable that the 10th anniversary of 9-11 would be ubiquitous in September’s media, just as inevitably there would be scant coverage of a different, though still significant, anniversary of a rather different atrocity perpetrated on American soil on almost the same day 30 years earlier – the brutal [...]
‘Rehabilitation revolution’
A brave new outsourced world? Another month of Coalition policy making gone by and more of the already tarnished veneer of the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ has peeled away to further reveal what we already knew: a) that the policy bares little or no resemblance to anything any rational person would consider to be in any way [...]
Recent London ABC Actions
On 16th June we attended a demonstration at the American Embassy to support Chrisman “Ce Ce” McDonald. Ce Ce has been jailed for 41 months for manslaughter in Minneapolis after defending herself from a racist and transphobic attack. Supporters from round the country came to show solidarity, hand out leaflets, chant our support and exchange [...]
Recent London ABC Actions
Brixton Prison Noise Demo London ABC thought the jubilee was pants, so on the 5th of June 2012 we organised a noise demo at brixton prison to show solidarity with all those incarcerated in ‘her majesty’s prisons’. Despite the rain between 30 and 40 people showed up and brought along a couple of awesome banners, [...]
Donating to prisoner support just got easier…
We now have a collection tin in Freedom Bookshop in order to raise funds for the mighty London Anarchist Black Cross. London ABC are a prisoner support group that spend most of their money on postage, as well as sending postal orders to needy prisoners. With courts cracking down on protestors, this need is never [...]
Deaths in prison
Since Freedom shifted from fortnightly to monthly publication the prison news just comes too thick and fast to really be able to give all the often startling (even for an old hand like yours truly) news a fair crack with regards to column inches. So it has become a question of either short pointers to [...]
Inside news
Recent sentencing summary by Legal Defence and Monitoring Group (LDMG) for the student and anti-cuts demonstrations. Some 180 people (that we know of) have been arrested since Millbank - excluding the Fortnum &Mason 145. There are at least 20 plus who have not yet pleaded or are currently preparing for trial after pleading not guilty [...]
Rehabilitation revolution?
Well, it appears that the tail has finally been pinned on the ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ donkey with the publishing of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill and all the in-fighting surrounding what would and would not be included in its final draft. And lo, it has come to pass that many of us [...]
