Thread by @natcphd

BABYLON

Wondrously flexible Jamaican term for systemic power and Western cultures seen as degenerate or oppressive, especially the POLICE.

#WarInnaBabylon @ICALondon

‘In the Jamaicans, you have a people who are constitutionally disorderly—it’s simply in their make-up.’ @metpoliceuk

‘For this greater spirit of rebellion among the Jamaican slaves compared with those of the other British slave societies several causes may be given.’ @opatters1

‘sergeants & constables do leave stations with the express purpose of going “NIGGER HUNTING”, that is to say, they do not get orders from superiors to act in this way, but among themselves THEY DECIDE TO BRING IN A COLOURED PERSON AT ALL COSTS’ Joseph A. Hunte 1966 @policeconduct

At the conception of the welfare state, Black labour was considered essential, even as the workers were considered temporary.

As West Indians, subjects of the Empire, THE LAW PLACED NO RESTRICTION ON THEIR ABILITY TO LIVE IN BRITAIN

@RMCentre @ukhomeoffice #WarInnaBabylon

Stories of individuals “overcoming” deprivation are sometimes used to gloss over the ways that government policy creates deprived populations.
#SewellReport @MercyMuroki @calvinrobinson @dambisamoyo @KemiBadenoch @TrevorPTweets #WGEPAD #AfricanDescent #fightracism #WarInnaBabylon

‘education authorities were using these schools as place to quietly DUMP BLACK CHILDREN’

The BLACK PARENTS MOVEMENT
(1975-1990s) grew out of
the BLACK EDUCATION MOVEMENT.

@GPI_Archive @newbeaconbooks @IRR_News @NEUnion @nusuk @UCU

Reggae, RastafarI, and global Black liberation movements #WARinnaBABYLON

The POLICE would INVADE these locations acting as an OCCUPIED ARMY. #WARinnaBABYLON

‘QUEEN Elizabeth II
SHOWED NO REMORSE’
#WARinnaBABYLON

@RoyalFamily @HRP_palaces @KensingtonRoyal @RoyalCentral @RoyalReporter @RE_DailyMail @chrisshipitv @scobie @RoyaNikkhah @katienicholl @victoriaarbiter @CamillaTominey @byEmilyAndrews @theroyaleditor @RepublicStaff

@metpoliceuk launched an operation called SWAMP 81.

—an INSULT, & REFERENCE to Prime Minister Thatcher’s televised assertion:


POLICE use of ‘SUS’ was BLAMED for the UPRISINGS of 1981. The charge of BEING A ‘SUSPECTED PERSON’ was scrapped in August 1981

Were the UPRISINGS of Apr-Aug 1981 SUCCESSFUL, in that they began in response & resistance to police use of ‘Sus’ law & resulted its abolition?

Should we see 1981’s UPRISINGS as ANTI-SUS ABOLITIONISM, aiming to Abolish the status/charge/accusation of ‘BEING A SUSPECTED PERSON’?

‘By documenting events as we are doing, it’s laying a tradition and providing an alternative to what has been portrayed in the media. Which has been blatantly racist.’

— @menelikshabazz, 1985
#WARinnaBABYLON

Before GRENFELL💚

‘the local authority began to offer young Black people tenancies’

‘@haringeycouncil did so knowing the levels of disrepair on the estate’

‘residents complained of being DUMPED there as part of a policy later denounced as RACIST by the Broadwater Farm Inquiry’

An interview with DOLLY KIFFIN,

a MOTHER of Jamaican heritage,

fuelled by the drive to provide the residents of the estate with much-needed services,

FOUNDER of the Broadwater Farm Youth Association in 1981

First Published 1 July 1987
doi.org/10.1177/030639…

#WARinnaBABYLON

BLACK SECTIONS are here to STOP this sort of ABUSE.
— Cllr Bernie Grant MP
#WARinnaBABYLON

@DawnButlerBrent @zarahsultana @KateOsamor @BellRibeiroAddy

@1987Caucus @ChardineTaylor @1CrownOfficeRow 1cor.com/london/barrist… @JewishLabour

@Keir_Starmer @AngelaRayner @DavidLammy

‘…whether in police custody or in prison, immigration units, or psychiatric hospitals’

DEATH AS A RESULT OF STATE INTERFERENCE @INQUEST_ORG

#WARinnaBABYLON @GARNETDORE @ICALondon

It’s a fortnight away.

HOW WILL WE COMMEMORATE
THE AUGUST 2011 UPRISINGS?

#WARinnaBABYLON @metpoliceuk @David_Cameron #njnp

‘everybody has got to give an account for what they do’

— Myrna Simpson, mother of Joy Gardner #WARinnaBABYLON

gal-dem.com/how-joy-gardne… @CharlieBCuff @galdemzine “They strapped her legs and wound 13 feet of surgical tape around her head and face”

‘yes, I do miss him. I miss him everyday—not just every year when it’s his birthday or Christmas. Every day’

— Pam Duggan, mother of Mark Duggan #WARinnaBABYLON

@TheHardStop @georgebamponsah @kurtis_henville @diverseworld

‘Even after two nights of unrest across London @BorisJohnson, who was @MayorofLondon at the time, REFUSED TO RETURN FROM HOLIDAY.

When he eventually returned to the capital, to much criticism from Londoners, he placed blame squarely on young people & promised harsh punishments.’

‘An officer known as V53 said he shot Duggan when the latter pointed a gun at him, but the gun was later found seven meters away. No police office saw it being thrown, & no DNA evidence connected it to Duggan.’

Pigs Lie. @metpoliceuk @policeconduct @INQUEST_ORG

#WARinnaBABYLON

‘OUR INVESTIGATION SHOWED THAT DUGGAN MUST HAVE BEEN UNARMED WHEN HE WAS SHOT’

https://twitter.com/forensicarchi/status/1270640715517833216?s=21

#WARinnaBABYLON
Catch LYING PIGS 🐷 out:
Look for PATTERNS—
• contradictions
• coordinations
• special reconstructions
@policeconduct
@metpoliceuk
@ukhomeoffice
@jed_mercurio

https://twitter.com/forensicarchi/status/1270640715517833216