NORTH MACEDONIA’S SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST ROMA

Posted on August 19, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged 1312, Andiras Redjepov, Bekim Demir, court, ERRC, featured, Jusinov Erdal, long read, macedonia, Nevzat Jasharov, police, politics, racism, Roma, sentence, Skopje, Stanislav Tomas, Sutkie Mustafova, torture, Trajan Bekirov, trial.

by Jonathan Lee

CW: violence, police brutality

On Saturday 3^rd July 2021, Romani man Nevzat Jasharov (pictured above) marched through the streets of Skopje, North Macedonia with his fellow Romani citizens against racialised police brutality. The protest was in response to the death of a Czech Romani man, Stanislav Tomas, who died after police intervention in the Czech town of Teplice. Video footage of the incident showed a police officer kneeling on the back of Stanislav’s neck; scenes disturbingly reminiscent of the police killing of Black American George Floyd in June 2020.

SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE UK CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: AN UNDENIABLE REALITY

Posted on September 24, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged 1312, acab, BLM, courts, David Lammy MP, defund, discrimination, E. Tendayi Achiume, featured, guest post, IAS UK, IOPC, jail, Lammy review, law, lawyers, police, prison, prison complex, racism, systemic racism, uk, windrush.

by Alexandra Jarvis of IAS UK

The brutal murder of George Floyd in America this May sparked revived global conversations on the presence of racism in criminal justice structures around the world today. Despite this movement and its rallying cry across the world that Black lives matter, the UK’s systemic racism is entrenched and stubborn. Just last week in Britain, dance group Diversity’s performance on popular TV show Britain’s Got Talent attracted criticism after daring to depict police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement in their powerful performance. As activists work in the aftermath of the revolutionary protests and petition to push forward change, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) in Britain has launched an investigation into racism within English and Welsh police forces. Through this, it aims to assess whether Black, Asian, and other minority-ethnic groups are discriminated against by police officers and established practices.

NORFOLK LOVES SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE, BUT WHERE’S THE COMMITMENT TO ANTI-RACISM?

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Perspectives and tagged 1312, ahmaud arbery, appropriation, arts, BAME, black, black lives matter, braithwaite, british history, burru, culture, dick hebdige, drum and bass, education, empire, featured, Jamaican, jungle, music, naybinghi, obeah, party, punk, race, racism, rastafarian, reggae, subculture, uk, underground, whiteness.

by Lisa Insansa Woods

Norfolk’s music, gig and free party scene is a vibrant stream of colour, with bright red, gold and green gushes moving through the illuminous pool. Reggae, dub, jungle, drum n bass and techno can easily be discovered blaring from a stack of speakers in a venue or elusive field in and around Norwich. Norfolk loves sound system culture, but many of those same people who dance to this music are quiet in the struggle against racism.

“Babylon A Fall,” they shout. But what does that actually mean? Continue Reading

EXTINCTION REBELLION’S STATEMENT ON POLICE WILL NOT VINDICATE THEM

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged 1312, abolition, anthropocene, anti black, BAME, black, black lives matter, climate change, climate crisis, education, Extinction Rebellion, featured, government, mark maslin, police, police brutality, prison, race, racism, simon lewis, uk.

by Lisa Insansa Woods

In early July, Extinction Rebellion UK released a statement discussing their “relationship with the police.” They explained how they now recognise that their tactics of civil disobedience and mass arrests have been insensitive to and “have excluded Black people, other communities racialised as non-white, and other marginalised groups and contributed to narratives that have put those communities at risk.” They also apologise that this recognition has come so late.Continue Reading

NOT A TEAM: HOW THE POLICE OBSTRUCT OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES (AND TAKE CREDIT)

Posted on June 27, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged 1312, abolition, ambulance, black, black lives matter, defunding, derek chauvin, emergency service, featured, firefighter, jengba, NHS, police brutality, police violence, policing, poverty, prison, race, racism, recruitment, system, uk.

by Kasper Hassett

CW: police brutality, racism

We tend to think of them as a trio: the police; the firefighters; the paramedics. They all answer the same phone line; they all blare the same siren on their way to the scene. Not all three, however, exist to support civilians, nor do they operate in unison, and this façade is what enables the police to be revered no matter how much they tear communities apart and instil fear.Continue Reading

STATUES ARE COMING DOWN BUT RACISM REMAINS

Posted on June 22, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #SayHerName, 1312, abolition, ahmaud arbery, anti black, anti-asian, BAME, belly mujinga, black, black lives matter, breonna taylor, british history, Cecil Rhodes, Churchill, colston, desecration, education, empire, featured, george floyd, government, jas assman, Kenya, lockdown, mary seacole, mau mau, munira mirza, olaudah equiano, race, racism, Rhodes Must Fall, Rodney King, say their name, South Africa, statue, Steven Lawrence, system, tony mcdade, uk, war memorial.

by Lisa Insansa Woods

Colston is in the river. Winston Churchill is quivering. Cecil Rhodes glares brazenly at the Oxford University governors threatening to tear him down, his maniacal eyes finding flickers of solace in the realisation that whether he remains or not, the society he served over a century ago still slithers in its self-made pool of white supremacy (enough to still make his cold hard mouth turn into a grin).

The taking down of statues is a powerful display of justice. Every day, the Black community has had to endure looking up at its oppressors whilst simultaneously being battered by the system that those same glorified figures acted to perpetuate. Each statue that falls is a nod of recognition to the Black experience – an experience which has been subdued for hundreds of years as something that is not worthy of our knowledge. However, whilst pulling down a statue is a strong gesture, it does not annihilate the insidious manifestation of racism that courses through every part of our society. We need to do more.Continue Reading

THE ONLY WAY TO END POLICE BRUTALITY IS TO ABOLISH THE POLICE

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #SayHerName, 1312, abolition, ahmaud arbery, anti black, anti-asian, BAME, Belly Mujnga, black, black lives matter, breonna taylor, coronavirus, derek chauvin, featured, george floyd, government, J m moore, jengba, lockdown, NHS, norwich, police brutality, police violence, policing, poverty, prison, race, racism, Rodney King, say their name, Steven Lawrence, system, tony mcdade, uk.

by Lisa Insansa Woods

CW: racism, violence, police brutality

A tide of anguish currently sweeps our world, hammering at the white supremacist order. On the evening of May 25th, George Floyd was mercilessly killed by a white US policeman. The world watched from their homes as Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignoring his screams as he called out that he couldn’t breathe. George Floyd was suffocated of his last breath. Three other policemen stood and watched. The state brutally murdered a Black man. The people decided to revolt.

Right now, we are seeing mass protests from the US to the UK to the rest of the world, both on the streets and online, physically and mentally. Police brutality pervades our society and the recent piling up of Black bodies such as George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Ahmaud Arbery has become just too much. We need change. The only way to achieve this change is to abolish the police.Continue Reading

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NORTH MACEDONIA’S SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH POLICE BRUTALITY AGAINST ROMA

by Jonathan Lee

SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE UK CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: AN UNDENIABLE REALITY

by Alexandra Jarvis of IAS UK

NORFOLK LOVES SOUND SYSTEM CULTURE, BUT WHERE’S THE COMMITMENT TO ANTI-RACISM?

EXTINCTION REBELLION’S STATEMENT ON POLICE WILL NOT VINDICATE THEM

NOT A TEAM: HOW THE POLICE OBSTRUCT OTHER EMERGENCY SERVICES (AND TAKE CREDIT)

STATUES ARE COMING DOWN BUT RACISM REMAINS

THE ONLY WAY TO END POLICE BRUTALITY IS TO ABOLISH THE POLICE

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