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Five hundred marched past Camberwell Magistrates Red Weekly, 97 Caledonian Road, N.I. More than 1,100 school students, most of them black, swarmed on to the streets of South London on Wednesday. They were on strike in solidarity with the Brockwell Park Three (Robin Stirling, Horace Parkinson, and Lloyd James), black youths railroaded into jail for three years on charges of assultThe demonstration und strike was called by the Black Students' Action Collective (SAC), and supported hy the National Union of School Students.
students assembled at Kennington Park, and, picking up another 300 on the way.
Court, and Brixton Police Station, to Tulse Hill Comprehensive Schoul, where Robin Stiling had been a student.
The police tried to stop them reaching the school, but they forced a way through, and were joined by 300 students from the school, who leapt over fences in order to join the demonstration. The beadmaster had to be restrained by the police from attacking one student, and two others were arrested on his orders.
John Randall so-called non-aligned They then marched to Brockwell Park, where a rally was addressed by speakers from Black SAC, Jocal Black organisations, and the NUSS. A delegation was sent to Brixton Police Station with a message of protest.
For the NUSS this showed a welcome ability to rouse itself from its previous state of relative inactivity. The decision to back the demonstration was taken, almost unanimously, Sunday, in response to a call from the Black SAC.
Mectings were held at a large number of schools. lying pickets were organised, and 20,000 leaflets and 1,000 posters produced. The NUS conference at Liverpool donated £60.
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