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14 local residents defend historic role of juries outside Sheffield Crown Court

This morning, 16.04.2024 at 8:45am a group of Sheffield residents sat outside Sheffield Crown Court holding signs with the words “The right of juries to give their verdict according to their convictions”

Joining hundreds of others around England and Wales as part of the Defend Our Juries National Week of Action, April 13th – 21st, where every crown court in England & Wales will be visited by people to remind jurors that they have the right to acquit a defendant based on their conscience, irrespective of the directions of the judge.

Their signs display the centuries-old principle of ‘jury equity’, i.e. the right of all jurors in British courtrooms to acquit a defendant according to their conscience and irrespective of the directions of the judge. Famously, in 1984, a jury acquitted the civil servant, Clive Ponting, on this principle after he exposed government misinformation to the public and Parliament concerning the ‘Falklands War’

Safe Streets Now! Join us in Walkley and Park Hill this Saturday.

Every week in the Sheffield Telegraph it’s a sure bet that there will be various stories about car crashes. Each crash means misery for the people involved, more expense for the NHS, delays for other travellers and at its worst life-changing injuries or death. Across the UK, someone is killed or seriously injured on our roads every 16 minutes.

Palestinian Prisoners must be released

We hear a great deal about the Israelis taken captive on October 7th, the need to release them and bring them home safely, the distress of their families – all of which are legitimate concerns, and we want them to be released.

However, we hear next to nothing about the 8100+ Palestinians taken as captives by Israel in the West Bank since 7th October. Nor do we hear about the hundreds recently taken captive from Gaza.

Long before October 7th, thousands of Palestinians were captured by Israel and imprisoned, many without trial or charge, for years on end.

Sheffield Council debate Palestine but defer decision to Resources Committee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxcgHN7fvzU&ab_channel=GrahamWroe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOrBAan0ZXY&ab_channel=GrahamWroe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3bxbnhDPEc&t=3s&ab_channel=GrahamWroe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM6LwueTdzk&ab_channel=GrahamWroe https://youtu.be/A25VDyicb1w Annie and Jonny with the petition You can see full details of the Council Meeting and the Webcast here. The petition, which attracted over 7500 signatures in just two weeks is here. To cut a long story short, after many moving speeches the Lord Mayor declared that they couldn’t voteContinueContinue reading “Sheffield Council debate Palestine but defer decision to Resources Committee.”

Everything is linked to everything; the backstory to your mobile phone battery.

A guest blog by Karine Nohr This column has previously written about the links between Sheffield Environmentalists and Congolese Environmentalists. This relationship started in 2021 when the UK hosted the annual global environmental COP meeting. Because the Congolese contributors were denied visas to attend the COP, some Sheffielders platformed their perspective for them, and haveContinueContinue reading “Everything is linked to everything; the backstory to your mobile phone battery.”

Five years since declaring a Climate Emergency, how are Sheffield City Council doing?

I have recently been working with a group of climate activists from various organisations to ask questions of Sheffield City Council to see how they are progressing in the aim to reach Net Zero emissions by 2030. The group included Graham Wroe Tell the Truth Sheffield Ci Davis Jubilee Movement Sheffield Sam Wakeling Walkley LivingContinueContinue reading “Five years since declaring a Climate Emergency, how are Sheffield City Council doing?”