To mark the International Day to End Impunity, RAPAR will be hosting the FREE WORDS FESTIVAL on 23rd November at St. Margaret's Centre in Whalley Range, featuring a range of acts including live music from the Kora Collective. We will also be hosting speakers, performers, jumble sale and bar.
Entry is £5 waged & £3 unwaged/concessions (donations welcome). Please feel free to bring contributions of food to share. 4pm – 8pm Sunday 23rd November 2014 St. Margaret's Centre Brantingham Road, Manchester M21 0TT (Near 85 bus stop on Wilbraham Road). Venue features parking and disabled access. This event will be highlighting two RAPAR cases- Manjeet Kaur and the Famakinwa Family- both of whom have suffered due to impunity. What is impunity? When someone acts with impunity their actions have no consequences. Intimidation, threats, attacks and murders go unpunished. In the past 10 years, more than 500 journalists have been killed. Murder is the ultimate form of censorship, and media are undoubtedly on the frontlines of free expression. When journalists have been murdered, in 9 out of 10 cases the murderers have gone free. Countless other citizens, artists, bloggers, musicians and journalists have been harassed, threatened, tortured, intimidated, jailed and worse for exercising their basic human right to express themselves. Most crimes against free expression go unpunished. Find the Facebook event here #freewordsfestival |
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