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Title: Blake's Ghost Author: V.Q. Date: 2013 Language: en Topics: William Blake, riots, UK, insurrection, poetry, history, Mark Duggan, Newgate Jail, Return Fire, police brutality, 2011 Source: Return Fire, https://returnfire.noblogs.org/files/2019/11/Return-Fire-vol.1-chap.3-pg48-pg63.pdf
On August 7 2011, cops shot dead an unarmed black man in London, one of
countless murders by the police. The murder of Mark Duggan, together
with widespread fury at the social conditions of many people as the poor
get poorer and the rich get richer, fuelled five days of rioting across
England.
[ed. - William Blake was a visionary libertarian poet in Britain,
fiercely anti-racist and anti-slavery. During the Gordon Riots of 1780,
led by African-Americans at the time of the war between Britain and
rebel colonists there and during which rioters systematically destroyed
every prison in London, he took part in the burning of the
newly-completed Newgate Jail (a mob attacked the prison gates with
shovels and pickaxes, set the building ablaze, and released the 300
prisoners inside. Blake was reportedly in the front rank during this
attack). He also wrote against wars and the blighting effects of the
industrial revolution.]