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The Hillsborough Justice Campaign Shop is now located at 178 Walton Breck Road, opposite the Albert pub. For the Charlton Athletic home game to be played on Monday 12th April (kick-off 15.00) the shop will be open from 12.00 until 5 minutes before kick-off. The shop will also be open for around half an hour after the game.

Everyone is welcome to call in and talk to members of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign team and meet fellow Reds. Please make the HJC shop your rendezvous point for meeting your friends before and after any Liverpool home game. Everyone will be made very welcome.
The Hillsborough Justice Campaign shop opens its doors to everyone - whoever you are, wherever you’re from, all are welcome. Upstairs, there is a large meeting room at the front. On match day, everyone is welcome to sit and have a chat with members of the team. The meeting room includes a kitchen area, with facilities for making hot drinks. Lavatory facilities are also available.
Regular updates concerning HJC merchandise, fundraising events, poems and supporters thoughts on the Hillsborough tragedy are available free of charge from the shop.
There are many items on-site for you to purchase - books, badges, and a variety of T-shirts, posters and many other items. All monies raised will go towards the Campaign for Justice and for the upkeep of the shop. There are many pictures on the shop walls relating to Hillsborough and Liverpool FC in general. These extend into a walkway at the rear of the shop.
Here are some of the items that are available:-
Badge - Yellow original £2.00
Badge - Red eternal flame £2.00
Badge - Don’t buy the Sxn £2.00 
Key ring eternal flame £4.00  *SOLD OUT*
Scarf £4.00 *NOW BACK IN STOCK*
Lighter £1.00
Words of Tribute (original) £1.50
Mugs £5.00 *NOW BACK IN STOCK*
Scum T-shirts £8.00
T-shirt - 96 £6.00
T-shirt - Liverbird / Houllier £12.00
Anne Williams book £10.00 *NOW BACK IN STOCK*
Polo shirts £14.00
T-shirt - black £7.00
Partizan Media T-shirts (various) £15.00
Book - Pete Evo - One Boy & His Kop £10.00
Book - Pete Evo - My Youth, My Kop £10.00
Book - Jim Dempsey - 3 Cups For The Kop £3.00
Book - George Sephton - This Is Anfield Calling £3.00
Fanzine - RAOTL £ 2.00
Photos - players £1.50
Kenny Dalglish t-shirt £12.00 
Alan Kennedy t-shirt £12.00 
Pay Kennedy t-shirt £12.00 
Billy Liddell t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*

Anne Williams book “When you walk through the storm” One mother’s struggle for justice and how she discovered the true circumstances of her son’s death. A very moving story and a “must read” for those who would like to find out what really went on behind the scenes.
Copies of Mark Platt’s superb book detailing Liverpool’s European Cup exploits in 1977 are also available, these are priced at £ 12.00. As well as being available direct from the shop, the books can be purchased through Paypal via John_mac@blueyonder.co.uk please add £1.00 for postage and packing.
There is a new HJC T-shirt available for £12.00, please add £1.00 for post and packing. It is a cream t-shirt with a wonderful image of Ray Kennedy, the image contains a small image of the Justice flag encircled in the words Hillsborough Justice Campaign. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will go direct to Ray Kennedy.
The HJC website is constantly being updated, please visit it regularly to find out the latest news concerning the fight for JUSTICE and other related matters.
www.contrast.org/hillsborough
Where to send donations / orders too:
You can order and make payment by Paypal to: john_mac@blueyonder.co.uk
Please leave a message in the section provided to say what items you require (and sizes – colours etc, if applicable).
You can either pay by cheque or postal order made payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (Don’t forget to mention which size you require) and send to:
John McCormick, 16 Acton Road, Kirkby, Liverpool, L32 0TT
Robbie Ashcroft, 48 Marina Crescent, Netherton, Bootle, Merseyside, L30 1RR
Hillsborough Justice Campaign
P O Box 1089
178 Walton Breck Road
Liverpool
L69 4WR
If paying by cheque or postal order, please allow 10-14 days for delivery, please ensure that you make them payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.
To view images of some of the items available please visit:
http://forums.liverpoolfc.tv/Forum11/HTML/000503.html
HJC CUP Tournament – 2004
Unfortunately this years event has had to be cancelled, a alternative date will be selected early next season. Thank you to everyone who submitted a team.

The HJC will be looking for volunteers to help with fundraising before the Fulham game on 17th April 2004, which is the nearest game to the anniversary of the disaster.

Anybody interested in helping could you IM me or send us an e-mail at mottman@hotmail.com

Thursday 15th April 2004
National boycott the Sxn day
Copies of a HJC letter addressed to newsagents and a “Don’t buy the Sxn” poster (both A4 size) are now available from the HJC shop. These may be passed on to your local newsagent as a request to boycott the rag on the 15th anniversary.     
Online versions will be available in the near future, please visit http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php/topic,26241.0
Why boycott the Sxn newspaper? How effective is the boycott?
Here is an article posted on Monday, 14 April 2003 by Rushian.
Tomorrow, the 15th April, is the 14th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster and people across the country are being urged to boycott the Sun newspaper as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC) continue their fight for justice. Before Saturday's match with Fulham the HJC handed out 30,000 stickers. Posters, leaflets and letters have also been distributed to newspagents throughout the Merseyside area (many of which are currently forced to take the newspaper by their distributors). Some of these posters were held up on the Kop on Saturday:
http://live.vg.no/live/images/kamp/2003-04/5175.jpg


The background to the boycott lies in the coverage by the Sun newspaper, edited at the time by Kelvin Mackenzie (now head of TalkSport) on the Wednesday following the disaster. It ran a front page article under the banner headline “The Truth” and proceeded to make outrageous claims that the fans had robbed and urinated on the dead, as well as beating up police as they tried to carry out the rescue operation. These allegations have, of course, been proven to be total and utter lies.

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/media.shtm

The response on Merseyside was one of outrage. Copies of the paper were burnt in the street and a boycott begun. The Press Council was flooded with complaints and ultimately upheld those complaints about the Sun’s disgraceful coverage of the disaster and found them guilty of lying. Despite this damning verdict Rupert Murdoch's newspaper has to this day refused to publish an adequate apology for the coverage and as a result the boycott remains in place.

A recent article in the Press Gazette (20th March) testifies to the power of the boycott:

"The Sun is still struggling with the legacy of Hillsborough, 14 years after the most disastrous publishing decision in the newspaper’s history, the National Readership Survey’s figures suggest. In North West England, The Sun is a poor second to the Daily Mirror"

It has been estimated that the boycott has cost News International £125 million in revenue and half a billion in sales and the newspaper is acutely aware of this:

"Ian Clarke, advertising director at The Sun, admitted this week: 'We know it was a mistake .... but every year it [the boycott] softens slightly as a younger audience comes through.' "

The paper has used many methods to increase sales again including heavy discounting of the price and radio ads on Merseyside up to the disgraceful full page advert in this season's Worthington Cup Final programme.

Whilst the newspaper is boycotted by many Reds across the country many of our younger fans are unaware of the lies that were printed by the rag and the still strong support for the boycott. The best way to make them (and others) aware is through education. For more information on the Hillsborough Disaster and the Justice Campaign visit:

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/
Taken from Kenny Dalglish - My Autobiography.

When the S*n came out with the story about Liverpool fans being drunk and unruly, underneath a headline ‘The Truth,’ the reaction on Merseyside was one of complete outrage. Newsagents stopped stocking the S*n. People wouldn’t mention its name. They were burning copies of it. Anyone representing the S*n was abused. S*n reporters and photographers would lie, telling people they worked for the Liverpool Post and Echo. There was a lot of harassment of them because of what had been written. The Star had gone a bit strong as well but they apologised the next day. They knew the story had no foundation. Kelvin MacKenzie, the S*n’s editor, even called me up.

"How can we correct the situation?" he said.

"You know that big headline – ‘The Truth’," I replied. "All you have to do is put ‘We lied’ in the same size. Then you might be all right."

Mackenzie said: "I cannot do that."

"Well," I replied, "I cannot help you then."

That was it. I put the phone down. Merseysiders were outraged by the S*n. A great many still are.
The Hillsborough Justice Campaign will be holding bucket collections before the Fulham home game in many of the public houses around Anfield. Please donate anything you can to help this very worthy cause.
Please note: Any donations should be made to “Authorised” collectors. These can be easily identified as each of them will have a unique identity badge issued to them, together with a letter of authority by the HJC. Letters have been sent to the pub’s to advise them of the collections and Liverpool City Council have also been informed.

Thank you once again for your continued support.
Keep the boycott strong and Justice for the 96