Not only did Mary Rimington achieve great things for City and Islington College; she was also a long-time activist with the National Council for Civil Liberties, now Liberty, in the days when the organisation had a network of local groups (as branches were called).
Mary was secretary of the Haringey group, in north London, established in 1983, which, among many other things, provided observers to monitor police behaviour during demonstrations outside New International's new printworks at Wapping and on Broadwater Farm.
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