Were the Stansted 15 right to stop a UK deportation flight?
While activists learned they would not be jailed for grounding a plane, another deportation flight took off.
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Published in: Shine A Light‘I’m a first aider’ said man who helped restrain and handcuff RashanRashan Charles inquest, Day Three: A ‘confused, shocked and panicked’ police officer. A ‘member of the public’ who intervened ‘without thinking’. Jury asks: Who was in charge?
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Published in: Shine A Light‘My concern was his safety’ Police officer on Rashan Charles restraintOfficer denies using unauthorised neck hold and combat throw on young black Londoner. What was in his mind? Drugs, gangs, weapons. Inquest, Day Two.
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Published in: Shine A LightRashan Charles: Inquest into death after restraint by police officer and ‘member of the public’Coroner questions police officer on his decision to let a man described as a ‘member of the public’ assist in lethal restraint of young black man. Inquest, Day One.
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Published in: Shine A LightRodents, bedbugs, mould: UK asylum housing still a hostile environmentA Manchester asylum hostel run by Britain’s biggest outsourcer Serco is riddled with cockroaches, rodents and bedbugs.
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Published in: Shine A LightThe significance of small details. My sister’s life cut shortLike so many people who have learning disabilities Josanne Wadsworth died an early and preventable death.
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Published in: Shine A LightWe must protect the lives of people with learning disabilityTime and time again, grieving families are left to fight for accountability and expose systemic failings in the care of learning disabled people.
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Published in: Shine A LightHome Office fails Albanian child refugeesOne Saturday at a London drop-in for children fleeing crime gangs and blood feuds.
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Published in: Shine A LightThe racist killing of Altab Ali 40 years ago todayHammer attacks, punctured lungs, slashed faces... far-right groups inflicted a decade of violence on East London’s Bengali communities. In the deadly year of 1978 Bengali youth began the fightback.
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Published in: Shine A LightAmber Rudd resigns, the anti-migrant machine works onHardline policies have failed in their stated aim of reducing immigration. Is their true purpose to impress particular voters?
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Published in: Shine A LightMothers and children unlawfully housed in Sheffield B&Bs for years
Women and young children routinely placed in shared hostels with vulnerable homeless men.
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Published in: Shine A LightUK migration rules make children homelessCouncils are forcing children into homelessness and destitution simply because of their parents’ migration status.
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Published in: Shine A LightTheresa May’s hostile immigration regime destroys another familyBritish migration policy forces working class families to choose between country and the people they love.
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Published in: Shine A Light'We’ve done you proud' — Families speak after NHS Trust fined £2million over patient deathsToday Southern Health was fined £2m over the “entirely preventable” deaths of 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin, aged 45.
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Published in: Shine A LightConnor Sparrowhawk: How one boy’s death in NHS care inspired a movement for justiceThe story of a UK campaign for truth and accountability. And respect for the lives of people who have learning disabilities. Review by Clare Sambrook. Extract by Sara Ryan.
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Published in: Shine A LightBudget 2017 offered little. We demand moreNormal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Day after day we witness the dangerous reality of austerity. #Budget2017 failed to alleviate the pain. But there is strength and power in our resistance.
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Published in: Shine A LightAusterity stories you won’t hear about in today’s Budget96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Rhea needs a home. She is a full-time single mother of three living in destitution on the brink of homelessness. Yet two local authorities are reluctant to help. Why?
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Published in: Shine A LightHow to start a housing movementRadical groups working on housing, racism, poverty, sex worker and migrant rights are springing up all over London. Embedded in local communities, they are seasoned activists, precarious workers and families.
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Published in: Shine A LightHousing activists stand up to dodgy landlords and council bullies96 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The Grenfell tower fire forced a public debate on housing inequality in London. Tenants have long been at the mercy of landlords, private and social. But resistance is growing.
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Published in: Shine A LightHow housing activists are challenging town hall decisionsUsing direct action, housing activists challenge unfeeling and harsh local authority decisionmaking
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Published in: Shine A LightTwo dead boys, UK state secrecy and the long fight for transparency on restraintAn official manual governs the use of restraint on children in custody. It was published with 182 redactions. Carolyne Willow campaigns for transparency. This week the Court of Appeal hears her case.
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