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"Free entry panel discussion and film screening examining grassroots community resistance to racism and the state. Featuring the esteemed education campaigner and social activist Professor Gus John, Migrant Media’s Ken Fero, John Pegram from Bristol Copwatch, food by Café Conscious and music by SlumGod Sound System."
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A event on Sunday 20th August. The event starts at 18:00.
A free all star forum featuring
Professor Gus John is a renowned activist and academic who has been working in social justice since the 1960s and has been named one 30 Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders.
Lana Crosbie is a co-founder of No More Exclusion. A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner with over 20 years' experience teaching in schools.
Ken Fero is a filmmaker and founding member of Migrant Media which, since 1991, has produced several radical documentaries examining community responses to issues of race, class and resistance. His ground-breaking and multi-award winning 2001 feature documentary Injustice, regarding the killings of predominantly Black people in the UK, had international impact.
John Pegram is the founding member of Bristol Copwatch and a community activist. He has been involved with anti racist campaigning for many years and has been monitoring the police since 2018. He has lived experience of stop and search and racial profiling having been stopped over 50 times in his life.
We'll start the evening with a Screening of Migrant Media's doc-film: Po Po (2014) at 6pm
The panel discussion will be chaired by Malcolm X movement's own Sukant Chandan and there’ll be room for questions from the floor. All followed by food from Café Conscious, Live music by Nyomi Khan and SlumGod Sound System bringing the Dub Reggae, Jungle / DnB, Open mic, (more TBC)
Entry requirements:
Professor Gus John is a renowned activist and academic who has been working in social justice since the 1960s and has been named one 30 Most Influential Contemporary African Diaspora Leaders.
Lana Crosbie is a co-founder of No More Exclusion. A senior school leader, race specialist and equality campaigner with over 20 years' experience teaching in schools.
Ken Fero is a filmmaker and founding member of Migrant Media which, since 1991, has produced several radical documentaries examining community responses to issues of race, class and resistance. His ground-breaking and multi-award winning 2001 feature documentary Injustice, regarding the killings of predominantly Black people in the UK, had international impact.
John Pegram is the founding member of Bristol Copwatch and a community activist. He has been involved with anti racist campaigning for many years and has been monitoring the police since 2018. He has lived experience of stop and search and racial profiling having been stopped over 50 times in his life.
We'll start the evening with a Screening of Migrant Media's doc-film: Po Po (2014) at 6pm
The panel discussion will be chaired by Malcolm X movement's own Sukant Chandan and there’ll be room for questions from the floor. All followed by food from Café Conscious, Live music by Nyomi Khan and SlumGod Sound System bringing the Dub Reggae, Jungle / DnB, Open mic, (more TBC)
Entry requirements:
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