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Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) is a grassroots community-based anti-racist organisation in the London Borough of Newham, London, England with a remit to provide support work against racial discrimination and violence, police misconduct and around civil rights issues. It provides advice, support, advocacy and a 24-hour emergency helpline to members of the black community facing racism. It undertakes community outreach and educational projects and campaign work around issues arising from its casework. The patron of NMP is the poet and author Benjamin Zephaniah. == History == NMP was formed in 1980 from a community campaign for justice following the murder of a local teenager, Akhtar Ali Baig in East Ham, East London. NMP's initial purpose was to monitor racist attacks and the response of statutory authorities such as the police or local authority. Shortly after its formation, the organisation extended its remit beyond monitoring racist attacks to include reports of police harassment and misconduct within the local the black community. NMP began documenting case examples and published yearly reports that argued the existence of institutional racism and how this in turn shaped what it perceived as the societal criminalisation of black people. It also aligned with a series of community campaigns which claimed to be for progressive social change and justice, such as the right to self-defence by members of the black community in response to racist attacks. In 1983, NMP initiated a 24-hour emergency helpline run by trained volunteers to provide immediate assistance to people with complaints of racial violence. Although self-organisation of black communities was central to its founding aims, it worked with white people who defined as 'anti-racists' in order to align its work with wider demands for social justice. NMP has been associated with justice campaigns such as those of the Newham 7 and Newham 8, Stephen Lawrence and many involving deaths in police custody such as (Ibrahima Sey ) and (Shiji Lapite ). It has also worked alongside many other organisations working with the black community such as (Newham Asian Women's Project ), Southall Black Sisters and the United Friends and Families Campaign, other organisations within the anti-racist movement such as the (Institute of Race Relations ) and (Campaign Against Racism and Fascism (CARF) ) as well as organisations working on a broader level for justice such as (Inquest ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Newham Monitoring Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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