PUBLIC MEETING

WOMEN AGAINST THE STATE

WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH 6pm
Ron Todd House, 33-37 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB

Unite London & Eastern Women’s Committee invites you to celebrate International Women’s Day 2017 - and hear how, in a context of inequality, the state goes to any lengths to spy on, slander, frame (through smears and accusations of violence) beat, torture and murder those forces which challenge its protection of a privileged group.

SPEAKERS

Erica Beukes - Committee of Parents & Truth and Justice Assn Namibia

Two groups demanding justice from the Namibian government over the SWAPO leadership’s disappearances, killing, detetention, and torture of young people who joined the liberation struggle from 1966-89.

Barbara Jackson – Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Secretary Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.

NUM member on strike during ‘84/5, also in Sheffield Women Against Pit closures. Still fighting for justice for the 95 miners brutalised by police at Battle of Orgreave.

Sheila Coleman - Hillsborough Justice Campaign

In her 28th year of campaigning for truth & justice for the victims and survivors of the Hillsborough Disaster against a state that denied for 23 years lies, cover-up and collusion.

Alison - Police Spies out of Our Lives

UK group campaigning to end the sexual and psychological abuse of campaigners and others by undercover police.