Extracts from Nuha’s Poetic Piece Performed at The Albany
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Kavi’s Protester Poem
A Protester's Shopping List By Kavi HewavitarneYou will need:A pinch of AngerDecades of oppression and injusticeHotpoint kettlingA good size gathering of peoplePolice brutality and controlNational Government intrusionMedia exaggeration and distortionA lost generation26 years of illegal warsA...
THE MISSION, THE COMMITMENT, THE PROMISE
Kavi, Rotimi, Selina, Nuha and SHAKE! facilitators sweated over this crucial piece of SHAKE!'s history last Friday, while preparing for the SHAKE! Preview event the next day.Check here for Eric Soul's guerilla style filming of the first draft of The SHAKE! Mission Statement ...
SHAKE! Preview is coming!! Sat 26th February at 6.30pm, The Albany, Deptford
This is your chance to hear from the young people and artists who created the SHAKE! course at Stephen Lawrence Centre last August 2010, together with Platform.It's hotting up, so book your tickets early - Admission is FREE but email platformshake@gmail.com to ensure your seats.
UNTITLED – A POEM BY SAMIA AZIZ©
Samia offers an insightful piece that captures the claustrophobia of the current world situation. Her choice of ideas expresses the helplessness we can sometimes feel against an invisible oppressor and how that can lead, dangerously, to apathy as a way of existing. Samia chooses to write to make...
REMEMBER THE 14 YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE NEW CROSS FIRE
30 years ago this happened. It should have been a national tragedy. But because the young people who died were Black it was downplayed by the press. Doesn't this echo the handling of the Stephen Lawrence case? A fascinating look at Black British history.The Reaction - 15,000 plus Black...