Your occasional reminder that since  1968 police targeted a wide range of social justice and human rights campaigns. Rights were violated and lives destroyed. In 2003 these secret political police infiltrated a group of idealistic young environmental activists in Nottingham, forming sexual relationships and spying without warrant on hundreds of innocent civilians.

This scandal, dubbed ‘#Spycops’‘, is now the subject of one of the UK’s longest, deepest, most extensive and expensive ‘public’ inquiries.

Follow daily from 10am links at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/

Hearings continue with Tranche 3, Phase 2, Day 18, March 16th . We will hear from ‘Simon Welling‘ who spied on  anti-globalisation group ‘Globalise Resistance’, the Dissent Network (which included #SumacCentre and @Veggies)  and others.