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Events
Films
Noam Chomsky (2014):
Why you can not have a Capitalist Democracy!
Articles & resources
CAMPACC has produced 5 new briefings, available to download (pdf format):
Somali communities targeted by UK 'counter-terror' measures: the need for solidarity
Baluchistan under state terror: The UK ban on the Baluchistan Liberation Army
Euskal Herria: The struggle for independence in the Basque Country and the impact of ‘terrorist’bans
The UK ban on the PKK: Persecuting the Kurds
The Tamils of Sri Lanka - oppressed at home and persecuted in the UK
CAMPACC statement: UK anti-terror regime: creating hatred of Muslims as a suspect community
NUJ Ethix Council Guidelines on reporting terrorism
Opposing the UK 'Terrorist' List: Persistence as Resistance CAMPACC paper, February 2009 (pdf file)
Read papers and reports from a series of seminars on "Terrorist lists", proscription, designation and human rights.
"Our tragedy and pain is part of the series of pains that is felt by people in cases like ours when laws are destroyed and flames ignited by politicians whose only desire is the achievement of their tyrannical subjugation and the spreading and domination of their lowly thoughts engulfs any notion of human rights."
Anti-terrorism laws: unjust powers
Do anti-terror laws make us safer? Whom do they protect?
- define terrorism more broadly, thus blurring any distinction between anti-government protest and organized violence against civilians;
- label numerous organisations as ‘terrorist', as a basis for placing entire communities under suspicion of associating with ‘terrorism';
- use ‘intelligence' obtained by torturing detainees abroad;
- and detain and prosecute people for suspected activities which could just as well be handled under other laws. Read more
What's new
Why is the Biden administration blindly following Donald Trump’s policy of propping up Turkey’s authoritarian president?
By Meredith Tax, 13 May 2021
Connor Hayes speaks with Shahzavar Karimzadi, Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, about the history of the Balochistan liberation struggle. We at Peace in Kurdistan and Campaign Against Criminalising Communities thought it important to have an in-depth examination of the issue. The discussion recorded here is extensive, covering a wide range of topics, including the history of the Balochistan region, British colonization, the division of Balochistan into disparate nation-state territories, the creation of Pakistan, the history of the Balochistan independence movement, tactics of torture and repression employed by the state, the geopolitical dimensions of the situation in Balochistan, Baloch culture and social relations, and the struggle against the criminalization of the Baloch movement under the global war on terror.
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and CAMPACC, 08 May 2021
Connor Hayes speaks with Dr. Andy Higginbottom, associate professor in the department of politics, human rights and international rights at Kingston University, about the recent deportations of Tamils from Germany to Sri Lanka, the history of the LTTE, the role of imperialist states in the genocide of the Tamils, and the present state of the Tamil struggle for self-determination.
Peace in Kurdistan Campaign and CAMPACC, 11 April 2021
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is being rushed through parliament. It will give the police powers to impose conditions on protests that they view as too noisy or cause “serious unease”.
The Bill will ban protests that block roads around Parliament. It also allows the police to impose conditions on one-person protests. And it will introduce a new offence, punishable by up to ten years in prison, of ‘public nuisance’ for actions that cause “serious distress”, “serious annoyance”, “serious inconvenience”.
The Canary, 17 March 2021As part of our #FollowTheMoney series, The Canary has been monitoring Prevent funding from the Home Office.
What we got was a breakdown of the numbers – and nothing more.
The Canary, 20 March 2021
Proposals published in December could vastly increase the powers of EU policing agency Europol, in particular by granting it new data-processing powers, a role in developing algorithms and new technologies for the police, and by easing cooperation with non-EU states.
Statewatch, 15 March 2021
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will face a system that is rigged by design before he ever sets foot in the court room, should he be extradited to the Unites States, CIA officer-turned-whistleblower John Kiriakou explains in an exclusive interview with Sputnik.
Sputnik News, 16 March 2021
Haiti Action Committee strongly condemns the continued US and UN support for Haitian dictator Jovenel Moise as he flaunts the Haitian constitution and clings to power. Moise has been ruling by decree for months, and is now pushing to enact illegitimate constitutional reforms that would give him even more power.
Haiti Action Committee, 7 February 2021