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  • 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 […]

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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 [...]

March 27th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: anti-racism, surfing | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , , | Category: anti-racism, black british history, black history, slave trade | Leave a comment

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 [...]

March 19th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: anti-racism | One comment
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