Died: Saturday January 21st 2012This page is to express our thoughts and and memories of Gayle.She touched many of us.You can leave messages below.Than...
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Southern Voices: Another Perspective
The upcoming workshop on Saturday (January 21st), ‘Climate Violence, History and Resistance’, looking at climate change, is being viewed with some interest. The event in Hulme, run by local network Southern Voices, critiques the commonly promoted framework of climate change understanding and its Western outlook. Southern Voices, describe themselves as a network of people committed to bringing the knowledge and understanding of Southern and Black people to the global issues that are central to education and present-day concerns. It’s focus is the relationship and issues affecting the countries of the South and the North and it aims to bring...
Friday, 6 January 2012
A Northern View: The Ghosts of London
The ghost bike at the junction at Kings Cross station marks the place where Min Joo Lee (Deep Lee to her friends) died on her way to college. It was October 3rd, her first day back at Central St Martin’s. (picture from http://ibikelondon.blogspot.com/) She was one of the 16 cyclists killed during 2011 on the roads of London, which started with the death of Gary Mason, former British Boxing champion on January 6th 2011. Min Joo’s death was marked by a vigil in which her friends spoke and all the cyclists killed that year were commemorated. It was one of the growing number of events and actions to highlight the increasing number of cyclists Killed...
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