Kids of Colour

11 Aug

📣 ARCHIVING RACIAL INJUSTICE & RESISTANCE 📣 We are so unbelievably proud of the boys for pulling together such a beautiful event last week. On Thursday night, community gathered to come and see an archive of The Manchester 10 case: the injustice and the resistance.

11 Aug

We heard from three of the boys, who spoke about their experiences and reminded us that there are still others to fight for who were not released. It is our duty to archive our present day stories so they are documented in history, and so others don’t rewrite our truths.

11 Aug

No one else is going to do that for us when it comes to injustice and fights against racist state violence. This was archiving straight from community, and we are so grateful to everyone who came to witness it. More soon.

11 July

‼️🚨 EMERGENCY FUND 🚨‼️ 📣 We need your help to support one of the Manchester 10 and his family. Please read the full post, donate if you can, and share WIDELY 📣 This is a mutual aid request in the face of a racist criminal injustice and immigration system. www.paypal.com/donate?campa...

8 June

One Year On: Remembering Theo Vucky Nthobatsang

3 June

One day, there will be an end to police violating our young people in life and death.

2 June

⚫️ THE CALLS FOR HELP BEING MADE BY PARENTS IN MANCHESTER, AHEAD OF HARM THEY PREDICT ⚫️ We ask you to read this, and share. We ask you to remember that behind each local news headline that demonises children and blames families, there are many stories just like this.

2 June

2 June

lbc.co.ukThe real solution to youth crime is improving children's lives | LBCThe only ‘early intervention’ we want to hear about is an intensive, radical effort to make the conditions of young people’s lives better, writes Dr Roxy Legane

Yesterday, the government released a white paper on Youth Justice reforms, with the hope to tackle ‘offending’ earlier. Our Director wrote a reflection. www.lbc.co.uk/article/solu...

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It names ‘racial disparity’ in the system, but whilst constructs of danger, risk, and threat are so inherently defined by racism that is entrenched in society more broadly - racism that the state constructs from above - there will always be ‘disparity’.

[The paper commits to ‘deporting foreign national children at the earliest possibility’] We want nothing less than a society pushing forward to make young people’s lives beautiful, and that starts by recognising the violence and responsibility of the state.

Yesterday, the government released a white paper on Youth Justice reforms, with the hope to tackle ‘offending’ earlier. Our Director wrote a reflection. www.lbc.co.uk/article/solu...

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them to take on so much responsibility. We are tired of the words ‘early intervention’, when they are often about inserting more institutions and authority into young peoples lives, and detached from recognising that as soon as ANY child comes into this world, they should have the right to a life in

which their basic needs are met as a minimum, and their lives are enriched to the maximum. That is what we should be fighting for. Any narrative that may feel hopeful in the paper always follows with reminders that the most ‘dangerous’ or ‘risky’ will always face imprisonment.

Yesterday, the government released a white paper on Youth Justice reforms, with the hope to tackle ‘offending’ earlier. Our Director wrote a reflection. www.lbc.co.uk/article/solu...

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When grounded in a criminal justice standpoint, even if poverty and root causes of harm are acknowledged in such papers, punishment will always be part of the solution, and we can’t keep punishing our children.

We live in a country where the age of criminal responsibility is 10, and a country where the state often avoids acknowledging the violence it brings to childhoods. The paper speaks to supporting children to ‘turn their lives around’: but they have barely had life, and yet somehow we expect

Yesterday, the government released a white paper on Youth Justice reforms, with the hope to tackle ‘offending’ earlier. Our Director wrote a reflection. www.lbc.co.uk/article/solu...

Once again, we remain deeply frustrated that efforts to reduce harm in community come from a criminal justice position, including ‘strengthening policing’. It is always about ‘reducing crime’ and never about building beautiful lives for young people.

17 May

📣 COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT HARMS AGAIN 📣 More Mancunian children will be sentenced next week.

5 May

THE EVERYDAY AUDACITY OF POLICING WE ARE NO LONGER SHOCKED.

5 May

This video was sent to us by a community member we support. The officers) came in the early hours of the morning, presented no warrant, did not leave any information, left and did not return (therefore we assume this wasn’t an urgent visit).