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 Activists' Legal Project provides information about the law to people who are thinking of taking direct action, or who have taken direct action. We provide briefing sheets and workshops by activists with first hand experience of the criminal and civil justice systems in Britain. We are not laywers or solicitors although we consult with them. The Activists' Legal Project is run by volunteers.Activists' Legal Project,16 b Cherwell Street, Oxford. OX4 1BG. Britain. Tel/ Fax: 01865 243 772 Email: activistslegal@gn.apc.org Activist Trauma. We are a bunch of anti-capitalist activists who have either experienced or been close to people who have been effected by PTSD or other forms of mental health issues. We are NOT experts about these issues (and if you are we would like to hear from you) but care deeply and want to help. Just by raising these issues we are helping to cure them.Activist Trauma, OARC, EOCC, Princes St, Oxford, OX4 1DD. Email: activist_trauma@riseup.net Tel: (0044) 01865 243121 or 020 7871 6940 Help line 01788 560800 Amnesty International UK. From a small group of volunteers in a tiny office in London, Amnesty has now become the world's largest international voluntary organisation dealing with human rights.There are more than 50 Amnesty sections worldwide. The UK Section has more than 125,000 members, 330 local groups and 900 affiliated organisations throughout the UK. The main section office is based in London with a regional office in Derby and a Scottish office in Edinburgh. The section has more than 50 staff and many full- or part-time volunteers, and is divided into 5 departments. Amnesty International UK, 99-119 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4RE. Tel: + 44 - (0)171 814 6200. Fax: + 44 - (0)171 833 1510. Email: info@amnesty.org.uk. Barbed Wire Britain. Over 1,500 people, nearly all of them asylum seekers, are locked up in detention camps and prisons in Britain. Two-thirds of them are in prisons, under prison conditions. The government plans to increase the numbers detained to 4,000 by next year. It is building new detention centres and allocating more prison spaces.Tel: +44 (0) 1865 558145 / 726804 or +44 (0)1223 700644 Email: ams70@hermes.cam.uk Bail for Immigration Detainees. BID works with asylum seekers and migrants detained under Immigation Act powers, in removal centres and prisons in the United Kingdom.London Tel: 020 7247 3590 Fax: 020 7247 3550. BID South Tel: 023 9258 7567 Fax: 023 9258 7666. Oxford Tel: 0845 3304 536 Fax: 0845 3304 537. Email: info@biduk.org Cambridge Two Campaign. On December 17th 1999 Ruth Wyner, the Director of Wintercomfort for the homeless in Cambridge England, and John Brock, the charity's Day Centre Manager, were sent to prison for five and four years respectively because some of the people they were helping were secretly exchanging drugs on the premises.The Cambridge Two Campaign, 6 Hertford Street, Cambridge, CB4 3AG. Tel: 01223 513033 Fax: 01223 514 136 Email: alexander@cambridgetwo.com The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities. The 'War on Terror' is a war against dissent, solidarity and democracy. It is a fabricated emergency for generating and manipulating public fears.Email: estella24@tiscali.co.uk Campaign Against Prison Slavery. Slavery has NOT been abolished in Britain, behind high walls and locked doors it still flourishes. Working class people are being forced to toil in poor conditions, beyond the reach of health and safety inspectors, denied even the most basic employment and trade-union rights, and severely punished if they refuse to work.CAPS, The Cardigan Centre, 145-149 Cardigan Road, Leeds, LS6 1LJ. E-mail: againstprisonslavery@mail.com Close Down Campsfield Concentration Camp. Campsfield is an abomination to human rights in that it presumes guilt from the outset. Today those loyal protesters who have been branded as cranks and soft-centred do-gooders have been proved right.Tel: 01865 558145/557282 Craig Murray. As Britain's outspoken Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, Craig Murray helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the US-funded regime of Islam Karimov. He is now a prominent critic of Western policy in the region.Craig Murray Campaign, 31 Sinclair Gardens, West Kensington, London W14 0AU. Email: craigjmurray@tiscali.co.uk Tel: 07979 691085 Earth Liberation Prisoners exists to provide information on people imprisoned for actions in defence of the earth and it's inhabitants. In this we include people fighting on anti nuclear and peace issues, indigenous struggles, animal liberationists and a whole host more. It is our opinion that we will never have a free and ecological society till we dismantle the power structures and hierarchies that maintain a society based on greed and exploitation.Earth Liberation Prisoners, c/o Cornerstone Resource Centre, 16 Sholebroke Avenue, Leeds, LS7 3HB. Email: earthlibprisoner@mail.com English Collective of Prostitutes. Since 1975 we have been campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalise sex workers and their families, and for economic alternatives and higher benefits and wages so that no woman, child or man is forced by poverty or violence into sex with anyone. We provide information, help and support to individual prostitute women and others who are concerned with sex workers' human, civil, legal and economic rights.The Fair Trials Abroad Trust (FTA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, at present based in London, UK. It is run by a small team of committed professionals with a board of trustees.Over one in five of the total number of "foreign" EU prisoners would not be in prison if they were natives of the country in which they are held. Fair Trials Abroad, Bench House, Ham Street, Richmond, Surrey, UK, TW10 7HR. Tel: +44 20 7981 0415 / 08454 561 791. Fax: +44 20 7981 0416 / 08454 561 792. Freedom & Justice for Samar & Jawad. Our mission is to publicise the case of two young people whose lives are being wasted in prison for offences they did not, could not and would not have committed.Freedom & Justice for Samar & Jawad, BM FOSA, London WC1N 3XX. Friends, Families and Travellers. FFT is a national voluntary organization which serves the whole spectrum of the Traveller community - both traditional and new, settled or on the road. FFT are working towards a more equitable society where everyone has the right to travel and to stop without constant fear of persecution because of their lifestyle.Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton, E. Sussex BN1 3XG Tel: 01273 234 777 Email: fft@gypsy-traveller.org The Howard League for Penal Reform. An independent charity working for humane and effective reform of the criminal justice and penal system in England and Wales. Consultative status with the United Nations.1 Ardleigh Road, London, N1 4HS. Tel: 020 7249 7373. Fax: 020 7249 7788. Email: info@howardleague.org Innocent is a Manchester-based organisation which supports and campaigns for innocent people in prison.INNOCENT, Dept. 54, PO Box 282, Oldham OL1 3FY Email: innocent@uk2.net INQUEST is a small charitable organisation that provides a specialist, comprehensive advice service to bereaved people, lawyers, other advice and support agencies, the media, MPs and the wider public on contentious deaths and their investigation. Our casework priorities are deaths in custody (police, prison, immigration detention and deaths of detained patients) and our focus on deaths in custody and the monitoring of such deaths means that we are at the forefront of uncovering patterns and trends.INQUEST, 89-93 Fonthill Road, London N4 3JH. Tel: 020 7263 1111 Fax: 020 7561 0799 Email: inquest@inquest.org.uk LeaveThemKidsAlone. Why would ANYONE want to fingerprint young children in UK schools without the express consent of their parents? The whole process is Unregulated. Undebated.Email: concerned@leavethemkidsalone.com The Legal Defence and Monitoring Group. Volunteers for the Defence of Civil Protest and the Right of Public Assembly.BM Box HAVEN, London, WC1N 3XX. Tel: 020 8245 2930 (24hr answerphone) Email: ldmgmail@yahoo.co.uk Liberty is also known as the National Council for Civil Liberties. It is an independent non-governmental organisation which works to defend and extend individual rights and freedoms in England and Wales. Founded in 1934, it is the largest organisation of its kind in Western Europe and is democratically run.Liberty, 21 Tabard Street, London SE1 4LA. Tel: 020 7403 3888. Fax: 020 7407 5354. Email: info@liberty-human-rights.org.uk Miscarriages of Justice Organisation - UK (MOJOUK). Founded in 1999, by Mr Paddy Hill to help those people in prisons nation-wide where it is believed or established that those prisoners are there as a result of a miscarriage of justice.The Roma Support Group was established in October 1998, in response to a significant influx of Roma people seeking asylum in the UK, due to the discrimination and persecution they have faced in their native countries, mainly from Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the former Soviet Union.Roma Support Group, P.O. Box 23610, London E7 OXB. Email : info@romasupportgroup.org.uk Scandals In Justice. A British Web-Site that has scandalised the British Criminal Justice system by exposing cases.Susan May Is Innocent This site highlights the case of Susan May whose murder conviction of her elderly Aunt we believe to be unsafe. She was released from prison on 26.04.2005 but is still a convicted murderer. Read the story of her release.Email: susanmay.fosm@gmail.com Vegan Prisoners Support Group. The aims of the VPSG are to give moral and practical support where needed, help to obtain vegan food for prisoners or anyone arrested whilst in custody, help to obtain vegan toiletries for prisoners. In addition, the VPSG provides an Emergency Arrest and Help Line.VPSG. PO Box 194, Enfield, Middx EN1 4YL. Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20 82 92 83 25 Email: info@vpsg.org Women in Prison. WIP was established in 1983 as a support and campaigning group for women prisoners. We felt that there was a need for a group committed to effecting change within the women's prison system.Women in Prison, 22 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EA. Tel: 020 7226 5879. Email: admin@womeninprison.org.uk Xenophobic Persecution in the U.K. Since June 1990 the British security service MI5 has waged a campaign of harassment against a UK citizen, through the broadcast and print media, verbal abuse at work, and molestation in public and during travel.Email: bu765@torfree.net |