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An anti-racist youth work organisation, committed to racial justice for young people of colour in Greater Manchester. #FreeTheMcr10
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📣 ARCHIVING RACIAL INJUSTICE & RESISTANCE 📣

We are so unbelievably proud of the boys for pulling together such a beautiful event last week.

On Thursday night, community gathered to come and see an archive of The Manchester 10 case: the injustice and the resistance.
August 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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‼️🚨 EMERGENCY FUND 🚨‼️

📣 We need your help to support one of the Manchester 10 and his family. Please read the full post, donate if you can, and share WIDELY 📣

This is a mutual aid request in the face of a racist criminal injustice and immigration system.

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EMERGENCY FUND SUPPORTING ONE OF THE MANCHESTER 10 FAMILIES Hostile immigration policies linked to criminal injustice system outcomes are harming a family we support. We need emergency funds to prevent homelessness. KEE THE _BOYS JUSTICE FOR THE MANCHESTER 10, FREE THE Bes In February, we reached out to community behind the scenes about one of The Manchester 10, who currently has no right to public funds or employment because of his unjust criminal case impacting his immigration status. In this country, if you are sentenced to over 12 months in prison, you can be at risk of deportation. Sadly, what should have been an acquittal by the court of appeal in 2025 was only a sentence reduction, one that did not do enough to keep him safe. He has lived in this country the majority of his life, but as a result of both his case's impact on processes, and a lawyer who did not do what was necessary, rights to funds and employment now affect the whole family. While a new lawyer works hard to fix this situation, one they should not be in, the family are at risk of homelessness. Thanks to community generosity, we have managed to keep their home until now. From August, we will no longer be able to do that. We are now forced to make a public call for any support. HOW TO SUPPORT DONATE We have now set up a fundraiser on our PayPal for this emergency fund specifically. Donations will help pay rent and bills. Every donation helps. However, we do not know how long this situation will take to resolve. So if you know people with access to funds or big pockets, please ask for their support. This money will be sent over monthly to cover costs, as requested. It is separate to our main donations, and to our existing Manchester 10 pot. If rights to support are returned, and money left is no longer needed, it will go back into our existing collective Manchester 10 pot. HOW TO DONATE Use the fundraiser link in our bio Use this QR code HOW TO SUPPORT Housing Of course, funding in this way is not a long term solution. We know empty homes exist across Greater Manchester. If you are able to help, or know anyone who can, please reach out. Other If you have any other suggestions, please do contact us. We remind you, The Manchester 10 case is another act of collective punishment that should never have happened. For many young people in cases like these, they face double punishment. Long prison sentences (often for harms they did not commit), followed by the risk of deportation. It is state racism, and we must resist.
July 11, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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One Year On: Remembering Theo Vucky Nthobatsang
ONE YEAR ON: REMEMBERING THEO VUCKY NTHOBATSANG Yesterday marked one year since the tragic death of 19 year old Theo. On the 7th June 2025, Theo died from his injuries that were a result of his fall from a 5th floor balcony. Police had arrived at the front door of a flat he was in, and he attempted to flee. In the week's after Theo's death, his mother received no updates from the police, and tried to piece together what had happened from news articles, and a social media video of his fall. It was only this video that enabled us to figure out where he fell, which allowed us to take his mother there. After Theo's death, we were able to obtain information that showed in July 2024, the Home Office concluded that there were positive grounds to accept Theo as a victim of modern slavery, a result of 'child criminal exploitation'. ONE YEAR ON: This status, that comes via the National Referral Mechanism and that should offer state protections (such as the police and CJS not prosecuting victims in drugs related cases), was news to his mother. What this status means is, Theo's protection was and is a serious matter. Despite holding this status that should bring protections into Theo's life, it is currently unclear what was put in place for him between receiving this status in July 2024, and his death in June 2025. What we know is that after July 2024, Theo was repeatedly arrested and prosecuted, including for drug offences. On the night Theo fell, drugs were found in the flat he was in, and whilst Theo was in a coma, his home was raided for drugs. We are now awaiting another pre inquest review hearing for Theo, as different institutions make the necessary disclosures asked for by the coroner. Theo's family's legal representatives will be making arguments for an Article 2 inquest. An Article 2 inquest would examine whether state authorities met their obligations to protect life.
June 8, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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One day, there will be an end to police violating our young people in life and death.
One day, there will be an end to police violating our young people in life and death. The far right do not care about the lives of young people. They care about opportunities to be racist. Their approach, as always, is to weaponise tragedies surrounding children and young people to mobilise hatred, and ignore the much needed justice fights that children and young people require of us long term. Those who actually care about young people have long fought for their justice in communities. That justice may be fights to improve education systems, to end police violence, to end child poverty, to ensure children live in safe housing, to address children's worsening mental health, and so on. And those who fight for young people who are most oppressed - often racialised young people across the board - from the position of genuinely caring for young people's collective justice, by default fight for all young people. Because the improvement in the lives of those most oppressed, justice in their lives, liberation in their lives, would mean every young person's life has improved. When we fight for young people experiencing racist oppression, particularly by the state, we never fight to make specific young people's live's better or worse than others. That is the narrative and work of fascists. It is what we of course now see emerging from from their tired playbook following the devastating death of a young person, whose life was met with the state violence that racialised communities have long been fighting against. We are thinking of Henry Nowak and his loved ones. We hope they find the incredible support and justice networks we know exist, who hold families with these shared experiences of state violence. And we hope one day, there will be an end to police violating our young people in life and death.
June 3, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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⚫️ THE CALLS FOR HELP BEING MADE BY PARENTS IN MANCHESTER, AHEAD OF HARM THEY PREDICT ⚫️

We ask you to read this, and share. We ask you to remember that behind each local news headline that demonises children and blames families, there are many stories just like this.
"IF THIS IS THE WAY IT GOES ON, HE'LL LITERALLY END UP GOING TO JAIL OR HE'LL END UP DEAD." THE CALLS FOR HELP BEING MADE BY PARENTS IN MANCHESTER, AHEAD OF HARM THEY PREDICT. We ask you to read this, and share. We ask you to remember that behind each local news headline that demonises children and blames families, there are many stories just like this.
June 2, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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Yesterday, the government released a white paper on Youth Justice reforms, with the hope to tackle ‘offending’ earlier. Our Director wrote a reflection.

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The real solution to youth crime is improving children's lives | LBC
The only ‘early intervention’ we want to hear about is an intensive, radical effort to make the conditions of young people’s lives better, writes Dr Roxy Legane
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May 19, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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📣 COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT HARMS AGAIN 📣

More Mancunian children will be sentenced next week.
Today marks 4 years since a jury found The Manchester 10 guilty, and sadly, collective punishment trials have continued to send children and young people to prison in Greater Manchester. It is often difficult to build widespread public outrage for children who are sent to prison. Children have lived short lives, lives that are beautiful and rich in their own right, but they may not have the compelling positions in society that allow many (especially adults) to connect, to feel rage, or to see injustice. A child loving swimming may not be a story that makes you feel as shocked or enraged by that child's imprisonment in the same way that knowing someone's role in society, what they do for work, or how they are not who you expect to see imprisoned, does. Children should not be in cages, but for Black children, it is often where the public expects them to be, and they become disposable and forgotten to much of society. For Black children, their prominence in Joint Enterprise trials and in the prison system, is political. Their imprisonment is part of a war on Black youth that has grown in its violent infrastructure decade after decade. You cannot remove politics from criminal trials when, like in this case, Black, Muslim children are in the dock. You cannot remove politics from life before the dock, from why and how they are there in the first place, from court narratives, from how 'fair' a process they receive, or from juries decision making. Particularly not in a country where fascism is gaining support rapidly. For one family due to see their child sentenced, their story is a shocking reflection of state failure: for reasons we cannot tell you. We support reporting restrictions for children, however if this family's story was heard, we know collective rage would follow. But in their particularly complex and harrowing life story, there is no way for them to speak without revealing identity, so for now, they are bound by a quietness. Once again we find ourselves in another heartbreaking reality. One young person has lost their life; three young people will be sentenced; and children are convicted for harm they did not commit. This punishment is the state's so-called 'solution' for interpersonal harm in our communities, but punishment never prevents harm, it just supports an endless cycle of violence. Still, the root causes of interpersonal violence in community - often state violence and neglect - remain unaddressed. Four families and their connected communities, are devastated: left once again to pick up the pieces once state punishment is complete. This cannot continue. Our original statement about this trial is in our bio.
May 17, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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THE EVERYDAY AUDACITY OF POLICING

WE ARE NO LONGER SHOCKED.
May 5, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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📣 TAKE ACTION: SUPPORT GEDEON, ONE OF THE MANCHESTER 10 📣

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May 5, 2026 at 11:59 AM
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3 YEARS ON: WHAT HAPPENED TO PHOTOS GMP TOOK OF THESE CHILDREN? ⬇️
3 YEARS ON: WHAT HAPPENED TO PHOTOS GMP TOOK OF THESE CHILDREN? THE ENRAGING PROCESS OF POLICE COMPLAINTS. Picture of child face down in snow with black hood up. Screenshot of GMP comment Do we know what happened to the photos? Would be useful to know if they were deleted / destroyed?
April 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM