Anti-racism work is a long game, if it is to work, it must be a life long commitment. You can’t suddenly expect centuries of systemic beliefs, entrenched in the history, the education system, and the laws of a society to change overnight.
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The President of the United States of America is no longer an openly racist man, and that’s important, even here in sleepy Stroud.
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On the night of June 14th 2017 Manfred Ruiz lost his 12 year old niece in the fire at Grenfell. Manny talks to Polly about the friend he made in Dave, one of the firefighters on duty that day, and how they have used their friendship and their positivity to work through their grief, raising money for those affected by the tragic fire.
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This is where we are, just four months (and many thousands of volunteer hours) in to the setting up of SAR. As always, in no particular order, as it’s all really amazing and important!
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I grew up in Minchinhampton. It’s a small town and was even smaller 25 years ago when I started at its primary school. I don’t remember being made aware of mine and my family’s ‘otherness’ until that point.
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Our current projects are moving along and we are infinitely grateful to the expert consultants who are guiding us, the new partnership with Lives of Colour, the first “Walk and Talk”, and the artists who have submitted work for the Sub Rooms banners.
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We agreed that we needed to do more than bang a drum, paint a sign and make our presence known.
We have been so busy behind the scenes, it’s incredible how many hundreds of hours our volunteers have put in, and so in no particular order here are some of the many projects that SAR are involved in…
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Florence Nyasamo, the CEO of Lives of Colour, chats to SAR CEO Polly Stratton about her book club initiative and how parents can get their children involved.
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“All lives matter!” has been the rallying cry of those opposed to the BLM protests. And yet, now, it seems all lives do not matter. Certainly not the life of young Abdulfatah Hamdallah who drowned last week.
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The first in our series of SAR 'Face to Face' interviews is with Sabrina Pace-Humphreys whose impassioned speech on the second day of Stroud’s BLM protests at the Subscription Rooms went viral.
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After the Black Lives Matter movement shone a light on the division and systemic racism that still exists, it is time to look at the legacy slavery left behind in Stroud.
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A poem from local resident, Tish Camp
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Stroud has risen, from a demonstration of hundreds outside the Subscription Rooms, into Stroud Against Racism (SAR) group; a thriving local community organisation seeking to understand and tackle racism in all its multi-faceted forms.
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In Bathurst Park, Di Martin, who has spent 31 years as a Cinderford East town and district councilor, stood up on the 20th of June and read the canonic poem, Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
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The Black Lives Matter movement spread has across the globe, but there are still many standing in the way of progress by denying that racism exists.
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Where to go and what to do if you have been the victim of a racial crime
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I KNOW some of you will roll your eyes and scoff at the suggestion that Stroud has problems with racism but I hope my personal experience of living in this town will shed light on prejudice on our doorstep.
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