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Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign orgreavejustice@hotmail.com https://t.co/UmibBPqNty
Sep 21, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
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Justice for Scottish miners - now we need justice for all miners. In our lifetimes!

OTJC welcomes news that the Scottish Government has proposed pardons after a review found striking miners in Scotland were treated in a 'grossly excessive manner' in the 1984/5 strike Now we need justice for all miners in the UK.
As ex-miner @johndunn322 explains "Miners are angry about the abusive treatment meted out to us by the police and courts during the strike. We were targeted by police under the directions of the Thatcher government".
Jun 17, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
June 1984, Miners Strike, days before Orgreave

Ian MacGregor, Chair of the National Coal Board writes to all miners

"Your leaders have told you that the Coal Board is out to butcher the industry. That we plan to do away with 70,000 jobs, to close 86 pits" "If these things were true I would not blame miners for getting angry or for being deeply worried. BUT THESE THINGS ARE ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE. I STATE THAT CATEGORICALLY AND SOLEMNLY. YOU HAVE BEEN MISLED"
May 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
"They charged into us, grabbing and snatching pickets, the police then hitting them with truncheons and taking them back behind their lines. The cavalry hitting anything that moved".
Orgreave 29 & 30 May 1984
otjc.org.uk/part-four-may-…
36 years on. Still no #orgreavejustice Join us on Saturday 20th June 1pm for our annual rally for truth and justice for Orgreave.
The theme is tackling working class injustices
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Jun 19, 2019 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
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Orgreave & the BBC
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 35 years ago today June 19 1984 a BBC News and Current Affairs meeting described its own coverage of Orgreave the day before as "not wholly impartial" with a "marginal imbalance" though "not enough to ‘justify the NUM’s view that the BBC was biased" Image 2/ The BBC's film coverage of events at Orgreave on June 18 1984 had reversed the sequence of events to show police cavalry charge in response to pickets throwing stones. In fact, the opposite was true, as other TV channels' coverage showed.
Credit: Peter Arkell Image
Jun 19, 2018 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Thread - #Orgreave and BBC
34 years ago today, June 19 1984, a BBC News and Current Affairs meeting described its own coverage of Orgreave the day before as "not wholly impartial" with a "marginal imbalance" though "not enough to ‘justify the NUM’s view that the BBC was biased" BBC's film coverage of Orgreave had altered sequence of events to show, pickets provoking police before they charged. Miners returning bloodied from Orgreave were amazed + angry to see the film. One them complained to BBC which made no response when it was discussed months later