Report of 4th July In Sheffield

At about 1 pm a publications stall was set up in the largely working class Markets area of the city. This coincided with handing out of hundreds of leaflets about US State Murder, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's call for a Moratorium on the death penalty, information about specific prisoners and Taking Liberties - the newspaper of the Anarchist Black Cross. Many people showed interest and we spoke to a few ee-prison inmates who congratulated us on taking the initiative saying "there must be more done for people inside" - we couldn't agree more.

We then moved on to HMP Doncaster a shiny new efficient private prison - in fact so efficient that 7 people have died there since it opened. Providing the govt. with a safe means of execution of largely un convicted and emotionally disturbed individuals.

After handing out the leaflets and Taking Liberties, the cameras were focussed upon us and we were ejected from the prisons private road. They kindly gave us the recommendation to write in to the Director (note: not Governor) who they were sure would give us permission to hand out the leaflets as he was " a decent bloke".

Once again several people (relatives) spoke to us and were keen to hear what we were saying.

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