JUSTICE IS RARE IN THE ITALIAN PENAL SYSTEM’S CULTURE OF GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Covid-19, featured, human rights, inmates, Italy, Matteo Salvini, organised crime, police brutality, prison, state violence, Stefano Cucchi, systemic violence.

by Alessandra Arpaia

Content warning: violence, abuse, police brutality

Santa Maria Capua Vetere is a small town in the southern Italian region of Campania. A few weeks ago, prison surveillance videos emerged showing guards brutally attacking prisoners after inmate protests took place in April 2020. The footage is proof not only of the abuse of power that takes place in silence in Italian prisons every day, but it also highlights the urgent need for Italy to reevaluate its penal system. Despite being sparked by demands for better Covid protection and testing, last Spring’s protests were a culmination of longstanding issues which have characterised the Italian judicial and penal system for too long; from lack of basic hygiene standards to a general slowness in judicial processes – not to mention the extreme levels of violence perpetrated by prison guards.

IS THIS DEMOCRACY?

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged abuse, acab, art, cressida dick, domestic abuse, featured, fuck the police, Home Office, killthebill, met, metropolitan police, original art, original artwork, police, police brutality, policebill, Priti Patel, rape, reclaim the night, reclaim these streets, sarah everard, Sisters Uncut, violence, women, yo te creo.

by Samantha Rajasingham

The background shows an anonymous police officer in yellow high-viz jacket over washed out black background, black gloves, blue face mask, and black UK police hat, but blacked out face; the foreground shows an orange femme silhouette, holding a placard in her right hand; the placard reads 'IS THIS Democracy?' — Image description: A visual watercolour response to the Sarah Everard case, Reclaim These Streets, Sisters Uncut and the violence of the police across the country against all women protesting for their safety and loss.
The background shows an anonymous police officer in yellow high-viz jacket over washed out black background, black gloves, blue face mask, and black UK police hat, but blacked out face; the foreground shows an orange femme silhouette, holding a placard in her right hand; the placard reads ‘IS THIS Democracy?’

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WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged anti black, antifa, BAME, barr, black, black lives matter, burundi, CHAZ, Donald Trump, featured, george floyd, iraq, ken cuccinelli, neoliberal, police brutality, police violence, policing, portland, poverty, prison, race, racism, reparations, responsibility to protect, suicide, Syria, system, uk.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: racism, violence, police brutality, suicide

I’ll admit, the title of this article is posed in a slightly tongue-in-cheek manner, but the underlying premise points to two concurring factors: the hypocrisy and northern hemisphere-bias underpinning global governance, and the distinct shift towards authoritarianism that we are currently seeing in Trump’s America; the latter possibly justifying intervention under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. The Trump administration’s current bent towards authoritarianism is not mere hyperbole, nor the incendiary Twitter-ranting of an orange mad man, but a dark and extremely worrying leap towards the kind of repression that characterizes Assad’s Syria, or the recent kidnappings in Iraq, wherein those protesting against the regime are bundled into unmarked cars and whisked away into the night. 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

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE RIOTING AND THE LOOTING

Posted on June 10, 2020 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged #SayHerName, abolition, ahmaud arbery, Akala, anti black, BAME, belly mujinga, black, black lives matter, breonna taylor, CHAZ, coronavirus, derek chauvin, featured, george floyd, judah adunbi, loot, macpherson, mustafa dikec, neoliberal, paulo freire, police brutality, police violence, policing, poverty, prison, race, racism, reparations, say their name, Seattle, Stephen Lawrence, system, tony mcdade, uk, zygmunt bauman.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CW: racism, violence, police brutality

We need to talk about the rioting. And the looting. And the destruction of statues during recent Black Lives Matter protests. We really do. The failure to recognise the entrenched nature of historical and enduring structural violence in both the US and the UK speaks volumes in terms of the normalization of oppression, enforced poverty, racism and discrimination in contemporary society. Whilst there are certainly white victims of structural violence, it is an irrefutable fact that Black or minority ethnic communities experience the most severe intersecting consequences – not as uncomfortable rarities, but as a grinding, every day, relentless struggle, which as we have seen in the case of George Floyd along with so many other black men, women and youth, can too often have fatal results.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

THE EU IS GIVING FASCISM ITS SIX MONTHS IN THE SUN

Posted on February 23, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Angel Dzambaski, Ataka, attack, Boris Johnson, Boyko Borisov, bribery, Bulgaria, Council of the European Union, criminals, EU, fascists, featured, gendarmerie, ghetto, gypsy, hate mongers, Hristo Lukov, Ihtiman, IMRO, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation, Krasamir Karakachanov, Lukov March, MEP, murder, National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria, nationalism, NFSB, organised crime, Parliament, police, police brutality, presidency, prime minister, public image, racial abuse, racism, Roma, Romani, social media, Sofia, Turks, United Patriots, Valeri Simeonov.

by Jonathan Lee

Content warning: articles mentions fascism, neo-Nazis, anti-Roma and anti-Gypsy sentiments, concentration camps and violence. Article contains strong language, derogatory language and includes descriptions of assault. Video includes scenes of violence.

The EU is led by gangsters, racists, and neo-Nazis.

I don’t mean that in a Ukippy way. I mean that until the 30^th June 2018, the presidency of the Council of the European Union will be held by Bulgaria, and will prominently feature a colourful circus of hate mongers, criminals and outright fascists.

The government in Sofia is currently propped up by a coalition of truly nasty bastards called the ‘United Patriots’, who are united mostly by their shared sense of aggressive racism. It is comprised of three parties: the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB), the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (IMRO), and ‘Ataka’ (simply, attack).Continue Reading

THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Brexit, Catalan, identity, independence, India, iraq, ISIS, KRG, Kurdistan, nationalism, police brutality, politics, referendum, Scotland, South Sudan, spain, Syria, turkey, war.

By Gunnar Eigener

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

Napoleon BonaparteContinue Reading

WHITEWASHING OF MENTAL HEALTH

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged disability, eurocentric, LGBT+, lgbtQ+, LGBTQIA+, mental health, mental illness, people of colour, POC, police, police brutality, psychology, queer, race, racism, therapy, white washing.

By Julian Canlas

TW: Mental health, racialised violence, racism

The first session at the psychotherapist is always tough. Your psychiatrist is a lanky white man presumably in his 50s. There’s a mosaic of framed medical certificates hanging behind his desk. You’re an 18-year old brown-skinned boy slumped back on this armchair that’s supposed to feel comfortable, but really the fake leather sticks coldly against your sweaty back. He asks about various aspects of your life to get a better evaluation: family history, school, suicide, self-harm, homelessness. He tries to sound nice—this condescendingly sweet falsetto undermined by the mechanical typing in of your diagnosis. Every time you spill yourself, you feel the room closing in.Continue Reading

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JUSTICE IS RARE IN THE ITALIAN PENAL SYSTEM’S CULTURE OF GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE AND IMPUNITY

by Alessandra Arpaia

IS THIS DEMOCRACY?

by Samantha Rajasingham

WHY IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PUSHING TO ENTER THE US UNDER THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT?

EXTINCTION REBELLION’S STATEMENT ON POLICE WILL NOT VINDICATE THEM

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

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE RIOTING AND THE LOOTING

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

THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE

WHITEWASHING OF MENTAL HEALTH

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