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SUMMARY:Book Launch with author Janet Alder: 'Defiance: Racial Injustice\
 , Police Brutality\, A Sister's Fight for Truth'
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DESCRIPTION:As part of Race Equality Week\, the Manchester Institute of E
 ducation Anti-Racist Education Network and School of Environment Educati
 on and Development EDI are pleased to invite you to a book launch and ta
 lk with author\, Janet Alder.\n\nJanet will be speaking about her book D
 efiance: Racial Injustice\, Police Brutality\, A Sister’s Fight for the 
 Truth\, a powerful account of her fight for justice following the death 
 of her brother\, Christopher Alder in the hands of police.\n\nChristophe
 r Alder had been left to die on the floor of Queen’s Gardens police stat
 ion in Hull in 1998\, having been dragged unconscious and bleeding from 
 a police van by Humberside police officers. His case would become one of
  the most notorious ‘deaths in custody’ in the UK\, involving the destru
 ction of evidence and illegal surveillance.\nChristopher’s death changed
  the life of his sister Janet forever\, as she embarked on what would be
 come a decades-long struggle to uncover the truth and demand justice. He
 r campaign led to some astonishing revelations and a string of landmark 
 rulings. Yet it also led to a covert counter-campaign against Janet pers
 onally. This culminated in allegations\, from within the police force it
 self\, that Christopher’s body was secretly being used in police trainin
 g exercises\, for years after his death\, by the very force that killed 
 him.\n\nIn this extraordinary memoir\, Janet reveals\, through the story
  of her\, Christopher\, their parents and their childhood\, the racism a
 nd impunity that permeates our state institutions. It is one woman’s att
 empt to bring the accountability which the state has denied\, simply by 
 telling the truth.\n
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LOCATION:A2.6\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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