Black Networking Group

Community and faith groups condemn the rapid rise in prisoner suicide rates

Tuesday 2 January 2008

Human rights group Black Mental Health UK have added their voice to the growing numbers of community and faith organisation who have condemned the rapid rise in the numbers of suicides of people in prison over the last 12 months.
Government statistics [...]

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans History Month takes place every year in February. It celebrates the lives and achievements of the LGBT community. We are committed to celebrate its diversity and that of the society as a whole. We encourage everyone to see diversity and cultural pluralism as the positive forces that they are and endeavour [...]

Mission Statement
“To make the City of Plymouth an area where LGB/T people and Communities can live, work and celebrate life free from discrimination and Prejudice.”
Objectives

To work in the Plymouth area for the benefit of LGBT communities.
To be a collective voice for the LGBT communities.
To provide environments where LGBT individuals can meet for support [...]

About us
Black Mental Health UK (BMH UK) was established in 2006 to raise awareness and address the stigma associated with mental illness.
The aim of our work is to see a reduction in the inequalities in the treatment and care of people from African Caribbean communities who use mental health services, and to inform these communities on [...]

Britain’s 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years, yet we have been almost entirely written out of British history.
Go to most museums, libraries and schools and nothing about our history and culture is kept or taught. The result is a widespread ignorance about who we are, [...]

See www.plymoutharmedforcesweek.co.uk or www.pafw.co.uk      
 
Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. Free.
 
Highlights the often under-recognised contributions made by men and women from Africa, Asia, the West Indies and other Commonwealth countries to Defence over 250 years.
 

Intercom began in the summer of 1997, when eight LGB people started meeting in Exeter to discuss our worries about gaps in local services for LGB people and Trans people. There was a need for advocacy for people who encountered homophobic crime, prejudice or discrimination; there was a dreadful lack of community-led social and support groups [...]

The Trade Union Congress campaigns for race equality in the workplace and in the wider community. Here you can find recent TUC information and materials material on the work of the TUC in the following areas:
 
 
- Black Workers and the Labour Market
- Campaigns
- Organising Black Workers
- Black Workers Conference
 
 
http://www.tuc.org.uk/equality/index.cfm?mins=14&minors=14
 
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·    Play a key role in winning equality in the workplace
·    Actively challenge racism wherever it is found
·    Are at the forefront of UNISON’s organising work
·    Enjoy UNISON’s support at local, regional and national level
As black members in UNISON we work together with others in our union to win positive change [...]

 
An uneasy mix of personal prejudice and intellectual anxiety has allowed science to be misused to justify a philosophy of prejudice towards the gay and lesbian communities around the globe.   The reasoning is that from a Darwinian perspective homosexuality seems to be a clear non-starter.  Only heterosexual relationships can be successful in evolutionary terms.  Anything [...]