Justice? was a 1990s direct action group, based in Brighton, England. It campaigned against the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and set up SchNEWS.
Courthouse edit
In 1994, the Justice? organisation held a number of meetings and debates in their squatted building (a former courthouse).[1] Justice? was a deliberately loosely co-ordinated organisation formed around a community of people with differing and sometimes substantially conflicting political positions.[2] Some of its more overt political actions were authored by the groups' collective persona Jo Makepeace. It campaigned against a bill in the British Parliament which was later to become the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.[3]
Squatters Estate Agency edit
Justice? received mainstream media attention in 1996 (including coverage on the BBC Newsnight program) when they launched their "Squatters Estate Agency."[4]
The group also organised two direct action conferences and ran a community allotment in Moulsecoomb.[5]
SchNEWS edit
SchNEWS, the newsletter of the organisation, was founded at the Courthouse and read out at places in Brighton including the New Kensington pub.[6] It continued until September 2014.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Dee, E.T.C. (December 2014). "The Ebb and Flow of Resistance: Analysis of the Squatters' Movement and Squatted Social Centres in Brighton". Sociological Research Online. 19 (4): 96–112. doi:10.5153/sro.3502. S2CID 147386741.
- ^ "About Justice?". Archived from the original on 13 March 2005. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ McKay, George (17 June 1996). Senseless acts of beauty : culture of resistance since the sixties. Verso. p. 175. ISBN 1859840280.
- ^ Serpis, Almudena (6 January 2012). "Europe's empty houses drive new wave of squatting activism". The Ecologist. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ "Justice? Two Years". SCHNEWS. Archived from the original on 8 February 2004. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
- ^ Goodey, Jan; Purssell, Richard (29 July 2011). "SchNEWS: how road protesters, ravers and GM activists fought back with direct action tabloid". The Ecologist. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 22 November 2019.