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This week Oliver Freiberg meets  crisis journalist,  activist and campaigner Samantha Asumadu where they talk about activism, what inspired her, and her recent nomination to the long list of the prestigious Paul Foot Award, for investigative journalism.

The View magazine is the only platform by and for women in the  justice system. Every week we  look at the flaws in the current system and solutions that will make it better and fairer, through art, creativity, acknowledging trauma, legal reform, reporting and oversight.

 The View  examines the intersection of women let down by the agencies, the charities, the NGOs and the support systems meant to protect us, but which fail us.  Over 57% of women in prison have been victims of violence, Women who have been subjected to physical and mental abuse who end up trapped in the justice system. . Why is society letting so many  women down? 

We tell their stories and platform their art and words to bring a more human understanding to the issues  that affect so many women. The Rebel Justice podcast brings you people at the forefront of the changes in our society today,  people on the frontline of domestic abuse and justice services, women with conviction and lived experiences, the reporters, the campaigners, the advocates. 

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In today’s episode, we present some excerpts from our Women vs The State live talk that took place at the Photo North Festival in Manchester in the first week of May 2022. In the panel, we had the pleasure of hearing from Gail Hadfield Grainger, whose partner was unlawfully murdered in an extra-judicial killing by Greater Manchester Police, Mags McNally, her law partner, their client Zayna and crisis campaigner and journalist Samantha Asumadu.

Zayna talks about her experience with the Greater Manchester Police. In the podcast she explains that she was drugged and raped. In February, she was intoxicated and felt unwell, so she called her friend Richard, then he called 999. He asked for an ambulance; however, the Manchester police turned up first.

Zayna says, “I sometimes blame myself.”

She flashed the officers from inside the property while they were still outside. That was when her door flew open, and she accidentally knocked off the female officer’s glasses. The officers put her in their car with them as she passed out.

After 7 hours, she had no record of what happened. Unfortunately, she did not regain her memories till the end of March. After being discharged from the hospital, she wanted to recall what had happened to her and she submitted a Subject Access Request form. All she wants is her legal rights to be observed, and to find out what the officers did to her that day.

Gail says they should have had her on a mental health observation, health checks etc while with the police. Clients in the same situation as Zayna have lost their faith in the police, and their mental health was shattered.

Situations where police officers are accused of sexually assaulting women are not taken seriously.  As a journalist, Samantha wrote an exclusive series on indefinite imprisonment sentences for public protection (IPPs), where she profiled some prisoners in jail for ten years. She found that a generation of working-class black Asian and white working-class men and women were in prison for minor crimes.

Gail claims that they are not in for the crime they were sentenced,  but rather invented allegations and they are subjected to mental abuse amounting to torture that has been inflicted on them. In
In 2012,  the government banned the sentence; people who were meant to be in prison 15 -17 years later have still not been released.

You can find out more about Someone’s Daughter campaign at theviewmagazine.org
 
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This week we bring you Fran Fattore. Fran is one of the women photographed by Gavin Smith  for The View’s Someone’s Daughter campaign. Our Someone’s Daughter Campaign consists of women in the justice system who have been affected through committing crimes, as victims or activists or by practising as judges or barristers. Seventeen portraits from our Someone’s Daughter Exhibition are at Peter Dench’s Photo North Festival from Saturday 7 to Monday 9  May at the Bonded Warehouse in Manchester.
You can read an article by Fran in the View Magazine from Spring 2021, Rebel Justice in which she described how she found life in prison during the Covid pandemic and the difficulties of the restrictions placed on her.  She also described what life was like for her immediately post release.

Temi Fajemesin, one of the View’s student volunteers from UCL in London caught up with Fran a year later to see how life was treating her  and how she was navigating resettlement and her way through life post prison and post pandemic

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Today we bring you a profile of photographer Peter Dench. Peter is also a presenter writer, author, educator and curator and has over 20 years of experience in the advertising, editorial, corporate and portraiture fields of image making. He has received many international accolades and published solo books with his work, while also running the Photo North Festival, this year in central Manchester from 7th to 9th of May. You can find more details on Photonorthfestiva.co.uk 
Temi Fajemisin, a first year English student at UCL, spoke to Peter for The View.

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Today we bring you a profile of a photographer who shares about their work and the way that they view the world through the lens. Zula Rabikowska is a polish photographer and videographer based between London and Krakow. Zula was born in Poland but she grew up in the Uk and her practice is influenced by her experience in migration. In her work she explores themes of displacement and belonging and recently received a grant from the MEAD fellowship, which enabled her to document contemporary gender identity in Eastern Europe.

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This week we are honoured to bring you Roy Tyson, an artist and founder of Roy’s Art fair, which is taking place from 7th to the 10th of April (2022) at Truman Brewery, Brick Lane.
We are delighted to be taking part of the Fair as The View, with a stand of art by and for women in the justice system, where we will share their poignant stories, why and how they have turned to art, and what art brings and means to them.

In today’s podcast we chat to Roy about how he started Roy’s Art Fair and what makes it different from the other art fairs abounding in London as spring blooms and artists thoughts turn to be creative again.

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In today’s episode we’ll continue talking about how governments oppress women who speak out, and how the current criminal system can be extremely flawed towards women. Today’s panel include Alba Duque, a Spanish artist and photographer who mainly works in woman subjects; David Shaw, a lawyer from Instalaw who specialises in civil actions against public authorities, and Shivalee Patel, an activist who works in animal rights, mistreatment of workers, and also in the BLM campaign.  This talk was hosted by The View Magazine’s Clare Barstow, an activist and woman with lived experience. They will speak about how and why they feel that women’s rights to speak out are being eroded.

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In today’s episode we’ll be talking about how governments oppress women who speak out, and how the current criminal system can be extremely flawed towards women. Today’s panel include Alba Duque, a Spanish artist and photographer who mainly works in woman subjects; David Shaw, a lawyer from Instalaw who specialises in civil actions against public authorities, and Shivalee Patel, an activist who works in animal rights, mistreatment of workers, and also in the BLM campaign.  This talk was hosted by The View Magazine’s Clare Barstow, an activist and woman with lived experience. They will speak about how and why they feel that women’s rights to speak out are being eroded.

You can listen to Carme Forcadell's video share here: https://youtu.be/yGbTi3E43dU

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This is a special podcast to celebrate International Women’s Day, where we honour the 750 000 incarcerated women across the globe and call on our  governments for rapid decarceration of women in prison for non violent crimes.

The theme for 2022 is #breakthebias and we have the perfect guest - Judge Shannon Frison. Judge Frison sits in the Massachussets Superior Court and has had quite a journey first as an officer in the marines, then a lawyer and now as a superior court judge. 

Narince Erkan, a student and president of Durham Rebel Justice Society, spoke to Judge Frison and we are absolutely honoured to learn from what she has to share. 

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In today’s episode of our Someone's Daughter Podcast, we’ll continue discussing WOMEN AND JUSTICE. Narince Erkan, president of Durham Rebel Justice Society, will be speaking with Hema Vyas, Life Leadership Mentor and omnipreneurial psychologist; Sue Wheatcroft, Mental Health Activist and woman with lived experience in the justice system; Amanda Hawick, Shetland Councillor and independent business owner; and Susan Pease Banitt, an award-winning author, psychotherapist and pioneer in the field of alternative therapies in psychological healing. You will hear very powerful shares and solution oriented ideas from their fields of expertise.

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