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Showing posts with label Hillsborough. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillsborough. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 December 2012

The Hillsborough Archive - UNISON NEC calls for a public enquiry in 1996

The Independent Panel on the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy has published all disclosed material on-line and it includes correspondence from UNISON's National Executive Council - sent in 1996 by former General Secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe to the then Conservative Prime Minister John Major in support of a public enquiry:
http://hillsborough.independent.gov.uk/repository/docs/HOM000037060001.pdf

Thursday, 13 September 2012

Hillsborough – a broader awakening?

As the justified anger of the Hillsborough revelations unfolds will the events now bring a broader awakening to the depths the establishment and the media can stoop to?

Hillsborough- First the Truth, Now justice for the Families

The emotion for those involved in the Hillsborough Families Justice Campaign came across as overwhelming. Twenty three years of battering against state officialdom that had labelled their children and relatives as irresponsible hooligans, aided and abetted by the Murdoch muck-rakers, finally led to total vindication.