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Interrogating State Violence: Custodial Deaths, Justice and Resistance

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Venue: Friends House

No booking required

9.15 Arrival and registration

9.45 Introduction

10:00 Keynote 1 - Akala (BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip-hop artist, writer and social entrepreneur, Supporter of UFFC)

10:30 Tea and coffee

10:45 Panel 1: The Mirage Of Accountability

  • Chair: Nadine El-Enany (Centre for Research on Race and Law)
  • Timeline of Dissent - Saqib Deshmukh & Zia Ullah (Justice for Paps Ullah Campaign)
  • Family justice campaigns and the Angiolini review one year on - Deborah Coles (INQUEST)
  • The perpetual killing machine - John Moore (Lecturer in Criminology, Newman University)
  • A system designed to fail - Dr. David Baker (Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Coventry University) 

12:15 Keynote 2 - Janet Alder (Sister of Christopher Alder who died in Hull Police Station in 1998)

13:00 Lunch break (BYO)

14:00 Panel 2 - Evasion and lessons learned

  • Chair: Kadija George (Justice for Sheku Bayoh Campaign)
  • Strategies for campaign into law - Marcia Rigg and Aji Lewis (Justice for Sean Rigg Campaign and Justice for Seni Lewis Campaign)
  • Violences during deportations - Monish Bhatia (Lecturer in Criminology at Birkbeck, UofL) 
  • The unaccountability of blackness: the anti-black logics of English police officers’ accounts as provided for inquests - Carson Arthur (Social Science Student, Birkbeck, UofL) 
  • The David Bennett Institute for Black Mental Health: Reclaiming our Madness 20 years on - Dr. Joanna Bennett

15:30 Tea and coffee

15:45 Keynote 3 - Sherene Razack (Distinguished Professor and the Penney Kanner Endowed Chair in Women’s Studies, Canada)

16:45 Panel 3 - Strategies for the future

  • Chair: Ken Fero (Migrant Media)
  • From Protest to Change - outcome-focussed campaigning - Tippa Naphtali (Mikey Powell Campaign)
  • From racism and pathologisation towards transformative visions to prevent state deaths - Dinesh Napal (Graduate in Law, Development and Globalisation, SOAS) 
  • Comparative Struggles for Justice Internationally - Nosa Imaghodo (PhD Candidate - Research on Scholar Activism - Essex University) 
  • From Love to Justice: Families’ Interrogation of Racial State ViolenceNadine El-Enany (Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of Centre for Research on Race and Law)

Launch of the UFFC justice research project - Lisa Cole (Justice for Marc Cole Campaign)

18:15 Summary and discussion

18.30 Break

18:45 Film and Q&A

INJUSTICE (98 minutes/Migrant Media/Ken Fero & Tariq Mehmood) - The struggles for justice by the families of people that have died in police custody (Winner Best Documentary BFM London Film Festival 2002, Winner National Social Justice Award 2003, Winner Best Documentary (Human Rights) One World Film Festival 2003. Distributed by the BFI).

Q&A with Marcia Rigg, Stephanie Lightfoot Bennet, Aji Lewis, Myrna Simpson, Germaine Phillips, Kadi Johnson, Tippa Naphtali, Lisa Cole, Raj Mahay and other families.

21:00 End

UFFC 20th Anniversary Procession
Saturday 27 October 2018. Venue: Assemble at Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London at 13:00

Hosting Organisations

- United Families & Friends Campaign

- Centre for Research on Race and Law, Birkbeck Law School, Birkbeck College, University of London

- Migrant Media

- 4WardEverUK

The United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) is a coalition of family justice campaigns affected by deaths in police, prison and psychiatric custody. Established in 1997 initially as a network of Black families as a response to a string of highly controversial deaths, over recent years the group has expanded and now includes the families and friends of all those who have died in custody.

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