• Transforming Local Infrastructure Organisations – is it transforming and is it local? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]
  • AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS – MORE OF THE SAME OR IS IT ABOUT TO GET WORSE? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]
  • WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 01/05/2012
    As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]
  • CUTTING PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL THE COALITION’S PRIORITY NOT CUTTING TAX AVOIDERS 18/04/2012
    There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]
  • MAYORS, LOCALISM AND HAVING A VOICE: WHY THIS IS REALLY A MAKEOVER RATHR THAN A NEW START 12/04/2012
    There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]

The Institute of Race Relations

The IRR is at the cutting edge of the research and analysis that informs the struggle for racial justice in Britain and internationally. It seeks to reflect the experience of those who suffer racial oppression and draws its perspectives from the most vulnerable in society.

http://www.irr.org.uk/

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The European Committee on Romani Emancipation (ECRE)

ECRE provides a single non-exclusive representation on behalf of European citizens wishing to promote common rights of equity of treatment, protection and improvement in the conditions of the Roma in Europe.  ECRE identifies and advocates practical social and economic development policies and actions for the effective social and economic inclusion of the Roma.

http://www.eu-romani.org/index.html

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European Network Against Racism

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is an EU-wide network of more than 600 organisations working to combat racism in all the EU member states and acts as the voice of the anti-racist movement in Europe. ENAR is determined to fight racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, to promote equality of treatment between European Union citizens [...]

Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe:

Combating racism on the Internet.  Promoting Anti-racism on the Internet. Links to Anti Racism sites on the Internet.

http://www.icare.to/

Cross-point Anti-Racism

The Crosspoint links currently over 2000 organizations in 112 countries!  Covers human rights, anti-racism, refugees, anti-fascism etc.

 

http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/

www.blacksurfing.com

WWW.BLACKSURFING.COM

Mission Statement:

“We are a community of surfers from African descent, who have chosen to enrich our lives and the lives of others through the sport and art of surfing.”

Our goals are therefore to:

Promote awareness of and provide education about Black surfing worldwide. To promote and encourage the [...]

Ottabah Cugoano 1757 –

 

Ottobah Cugoano was born in Africa in about 1757. As a child he was kidnapped and sold as a slave to plantation owners in Grenada. He remained in the West Indies until purchased by an English merchant. He was taken to England in 1772 where he was set free. Later he entered the [...]

Report percieved racial comment found on the web – Internet Watch Foundation

 

 Interested in reporting any perceived racist comments?  The UK Hotline for reporting illegal content specifically:  Child sexual abuse content hosted worldwide and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK 

To deal with the constant issue of what appears in the ‘your comments’ section of the Plymouth Herald’s [...]

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