While War Inna Babylon was originally scheduled to open in May 2020 – the delay due to Covid-19 – has inadvertently made this the most timely exhibition it could possibly be.
Civil Protest
Privacy International launches new guide to resisting high tech police surveillance
Surely we should all be free to protest, without the police knowing who we are? But high tech surveillance of protests is real, and it enables the police to identify, monitor and track protestors, indiscriminately and at scale.
Demand that the National Police Chiefs Council adopts a new, eleven-point Charter
The government’s new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is an unprecedented attack on the freedom to protest. We have to fight against this Bill. Please sign the petition and support the Charter For Freedom of Assembly Rights.
Protesters demand answers of Gwent Police after Newport man’s death
More than 100 protesters gathered in Newport following the death of a man after police were at his house. Mouayed Bashir, 29, died after officers were called to his home in Newport at about 09:00 GMT.
In Remembrance – Malcolm X : ‘One Night in Miami’
It is one of the most famous moments in sports history: the February 1964 match when a braggadocious 22-year-old named Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston in Miami Beach to win the world heavyweight boxing championship.
1981 Resistance legacies! 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance initiative
April 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the Brixton uprisings. On this date an ambitious cultural programme of events and activities will kick-off across Brixton. It will be a culturally democratic programme.
Black Lives Matter Movement nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
The Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian politician Petter Eide for mobilising a world-wide fight against inequality and racial injustice.
French government drops controversial security law after activists protests
The French government has dropped a controversial bill that would have curbed the right to film police officers in action, the speaker of French President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party said on Monday.
