Make Tea Not War

3. This lesson is about the very serious events that took place during the summer of 2011. It aims to help you understand what happened, talk about your worries and put forward your ideas about how riots of this kind might be prevented from happening again in the future.

5. The 2011 London riots began on Saturday August 6 after a peaceful march in protest of the police shooting of Mark Duggan built up into disturbances and looting in many areas of London. By the night of Tuesday August 9, they had spread to other cities including Birmingham and Manchester.

7. Mostly young men and women of all racial backgrounds, many dressed in hooded sweatshirts, who came out on the streets of mainly poor areas and took part in running skirmishes with the police.

15. Asyraf Haziq, a student from Malaysia, was the victim of a violent attack during the riots. He was then robbed by people who at first seemed to be helping him, an incident that was captured on video and posted on YouTube. The video has since been viewed millions of times and has become a symbol of the lawlessness of the riots.

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20. Tariq Jahan appealed for peace after his son, Haroon, along with Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir, was mown down by a car while guarding shops from looters during the riots in Birmingham.  He said: �Today, we stand here to call to all the youth to remain calm, for our communities to stay united.� Later he said: �I have lost my son - if you want to lose yours step forward, otherwise calm down and go home.�

21. Pauline Pearce, a jazz singer and community worker, became an internet sensation when video of her berating youths near her home in Hackney was posted online during the 2011 London riots.

22. PCs Fash Mohammadi and Alex Law both needed hospital treatment after facing at least 100 youths hurling bricks, bottles and other missiles in Tottenham High Road. Although PC Law had suffered a serious injury to his foot and PC Mohammadi had a burst eardrum, they both went straight back on duty as soon as they could.

23. A three year old police dog called Obi, whose skull was fractured when thugs threw bricks, bottles and petrol bombs at him and his handler PC Phil Wells during the riots continued to patrol the streets for two hours, despite blood dripping from his head.

24. The London Fire Brigade received 2,220 calls - about 15 times the usual amount - on Monday 8 August, and attended 1,500 incidents. The Mayor of London said �I congratulate them on their management, on their organisation, on the dynamism of the men and women �� There are many heroes in the story of what has happened in the last few days, but London Fire Brigade is out there, at or near the top.�

29. Make Tea Not War! A huge number of pictures of people drinking tea were uploaded on the Facebook page �Operation Cup Of Tea�, a campaign created for people who chose to make a statement about staying at home instead of joining in the riots.

32. What do you think? What kind of punishment would stop the first time thief looting again? Do you think looters should have the same punishment whether they stole babies� nappies or a plasma TV? How would you punish the people who caused damage to property? Do you think punishment prevents people from committing crimes in the future ?

33. Prime Minister, David Cameron, who had come back early from his holiday, told the House of Commons of his ideas about what should happen next:

34. To think about whether people should be stopped from using social media (Twitter and Blackberry messaging) when it is known that they are planning violence and disorder To look at whether wider powers of curfew and dispersal orders were needed To give the police more power to order people to remove facemasks when they are suspected of committing crime To give the courts tougher sentencing powers To give councils more power to turn the rioters out of their council homes To start anti-gang programmes.

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46. Glossary Social media � internet technology which enables people to interact with each other curfew � a law which requires people to be off the streets by a certain time sentence � a punishment given by a judge in court.

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