No Justice, No Peace

“No Justice, No Peace” is both a shared protest refrain and, when Queenie shouts it herself, a declaration of anger shaped by what she sees happening to Brixton. The chant links justice to peace as the marchers move from listening to accounts of injustice to making their own voices heard in the streets.

Use in the March

After the crowd gathers outside the police station and hears accounts of injustice, marchers leave the station and move freely through Brixton, chanting, “NO JUSTICE! NO PEACE!” The words carry the demonstration beyond the station: the crowd takes its demand into the streets, where more people have joined and traffic has stopped. In this setting, the refrain is not an isolated slogan but a recurring public expression of protest.

Queenie’s Participation

As the march passes the back of the market, Queenie recognizes how much the neighborhood has changed. Familiar shops and stalls have disappeared, replaced by vegan bars and boutiques; the place where she had felt able to be herself now seems to have lost part of its identity. That realization sharpens her response. She shouts, “NO JUSTICE!” and then, “NO PEACE!”, describing a new anger rising in her. The crowd’s refrain has become her own.

Voice and Significance

Kyazike asks whether Queenie wants the megaphone. Queenie declines, but raises her right fist above her head. The gesture marks a change from observing the march to participating in it, while her refusal of the megaphone keeps that participation distinct from taking a formal speaking role. The chant gathers the scene’s two pressures—reported injustice and the visible transformation of Brixton—into a brief, repeatable demand. For Queenie, joining it makes her grief over the neighborhood’s altered character audible as protest.