According to a new report, nearly 600 people have died in custody in the last 12 months and nobody is being held to account. Year after year, the bereaved gather for a silent procession followed by noisy protest in front of Downing Street. Every year there were more bereaved than the year before and the protests kept on growing. However, apart from those who knew those killed in custody, few others join the protests despite this being an issue that can effect us all.

The annual march by the UFFC will take place on Saturday from 1pm at Trafalgar Square to Downing Street. It has taken place every year on the last Saturday in October for the last 9 years. Unfortunately this year it clashes with the anarchist bookfair, an unmissable event in any activists diary.

The bookfair is way more than a place to sell or buy books, it's a major networking and social event for people from all over the country and beyond. Like the remembrance procession, the bookfair has grown in size every year with more stallholders, more meetings and more people turning up on the day. It's increasing size has meant it has had to changed venues several times in order to accommodate it's growing popularity.

This year the venue is the Queen Mary University on Mile End Road, close to Mile End and Stepney Green Tubes which is close to the rampART social center which is hosting a post bookfair benefit gig.

Check out the Real2Reel film of last years Deaths in Custody Protest and the rampART radio audio interviews with people attending the bookfair a couple of years ago when is happened to coincide with buy nothing and steal something day.

 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/384167.html?c=on
 http://www.anarchistbookfair.org/