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SACC campaigns against Britain's terrorism laws, against torture and detention without trial, against laws that criminalise political and community activity, against the so-called war on terror. SACC stands up for human rights and civil liberties. |
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Scrap the Bedroom Tax"Support local communities to set up anti- bedroom tax meetings and form local anti-bedroom tax groups. Help coordinate local groups to form a strong and united fightback to stop evictions and scrap the bedroom tax." " ...To recognise the Scottish Government has the power to amend Section 16 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, to treat bedroom tax arrears as ordinary debt - not rent arrears - and calls on the Scottish Government to implement this change immediately, in line with the Govan Law Centre petition to lift the threat of bedroom tax evictions from the 105 000 households effected by the bedroom tax in Scotland."
"Build an anti-evictions army of ordinary citizens to physically oppose, resist and prevent attempted bedroom tax evictions anywhere in Scotland through all peaceful means necessary, and assemble phone trees, Facebook lists, and other social media networks that may be required to facilitate the building of such an anti-eviction army." |
Times Square. New York |
Justice for Shaker AmerLondon man Shaker Aamer is amongst 21 prisoners being forcefed in the Guantánamo Hunger Strike The President of the American Medical Association has written to the Secretary of Defense that this is a violation of their rights. Keep the pressure up: Contact Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and tell him, "Please use your authority under the law to resume transferring the 86 men cleared for release by President Obama's inter-agency task force. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA 2013) gives you the authority to certify men or issue waivers so they can be released from Guantánamo, and you must use this authority without further delay." Call Secretary Hagel at the Department of Defense on 703-571-3343 or submit a comment online. |
 Demo against the cuts, Edinburgh 2010 News about Human Rights and Civil LibertiesFounding Statement of the All Scotland Anti-Bedroom Tax Conference
30 April 2013 Tibetan National Uprising Day in Edinburgh
16 March 2013 Mass Arrest of Trade Unionists in Turkey
22 February 2013 Drone inquiry has all the hallmarks of a whitewash
20 November 2012 Know your rights - Stand up for Civil LibertiesThe police are trampling on our civil liberties in an effort to strangle resistance to the cuts. Use your civil liberties or lose them. |
Background and Comment
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End Solitary Confinement & IsolationStop Isolation is an international initiative to end long-term solitary
confinement and prisoner isolation. Add your support to the statement. |
Scotland's Census - no place for human rights abusersCACI Ltd, a UK subsidiary of a company that has been involved in interrogating prisoners at Abu Ghraib Prison, was contracted to carry out key work for Scotland's 2011 Census. CACI have tried to block all attempts by former Abu Ghraib prisoners to hold them to account in US courts for their actions in Iraq.
Countless Scots either refused to fill in their census form in protest, or sent in partially completed forms. Refusing to answer census
questions is a criminal offence under the Census Act 1920. But just 5 people have been prosecuted. They are being victimised so that the
Register Office can save face. |
Justice for Aafia Siddiqui, torture victimDr Aafia Siddiqui is a Pakistani Citizen who has lived and studied in America. In 2003 Aafia "disappeared" along with her three children while visiting her mother in Pakistan. She says that she suffered torture and abuse in US-run secret prisons. In 2008 she was taken to the US to stand trial. In March 2010 she was convicted, on flimsy evidence, of "assaulting and attempted murder of US personnel in Afghanistan" while she was in custody there. She injured no one during her alleged action. In September 2010 she was sentenced to 86 years in prison. |
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About SACCSACC - Scotland Against Criminalising Communities - is a civil liberties and human rights group based in Scotland that campaigns against Britain's terrorism acts and offers solidarity to the communities most affected by them. SACC is affiliated to the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, to the Stop the War Coalition, to Unite Against Fascism and to the UK National Guantanamo Coalition. 
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