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• 10: Together Against Prevent

Includes a screening of Dirty Wars, a film by Jeremy Scahill

Date: Tuesday, 5 August, 7-9.30pm

Venue: Council Chamber, Camden Town Hall, Judd St, London WC1H 9JE (near Kings Cross tube/rail station)

Revelations over mass electronic surveillance by US-UK state agencies have provoked  public  outrage  at  this  threat  to  democratic  freedoms.   State responses  have  further  revealed  its  assumptions  about  the  public  as  a potential source of various dangers.   Indeed, the state has a long history of targeting political dissent through human surveillance, which continues today alongside  mass  electronic  surveillance  of  everyone.   In  the  past  decade Muslim and migrant communities have been increasingly targeted to become informers.  This pressure has been reinforced by blackmail threats linked to anti-terror poowers which can impose various punishments without trial.   An extreme form has been deprivation of UK citizenship, sometimes followed by drone assassination.

The  global  expansion  of  drone  attack  has  been  documented  by  Jeremy Scahill’s book and film, Dirty Wars.  This public event will first screen the film, followed by speakers linking various forms of surveillance and their political roles.

The  discussion  will  consider  how  to  oppose  the  state’s  dangerous surveillance.

For  background  on  Somalia,  see  ‘Somali  communities  targeted  by  UK  “counter-terror”  measures:  the  need  for  solidarity’, http://www.campacc.org.uk/uploads/CAMPACC_Somali%20briefing_v130510(1).pdf

SPEAKERS

Kat Craig, Legal Director of the Abuses in Counter-Terrorism (ACT) team of Reprieve and Vice-Chair of Haldane Society
Alastair Lyon,  Solicitor, Birnberg Peirce & Partners
Mohamed Ibrahim, Co-ordinator, London Somali Youth Forum
Chaired by Les Levidow, CAMPACC

For information contact:  Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC):  Estella Schmid estella24@tiscali.co.uk, tel.  020 7586 5892, www.campacc.org.uk

Meeting organised by CAMPACC in association with:
Reprieve: http://www.reprieve.org.uk
Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers: http://www.haldane.org
Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom: http://www.cpbf.org.uk