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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Non-Stop Against Apartheid at the #RGSIBG13 conference
This week Gavin Brown will be presenting a paper from the Non-Stop Against Apartheid research at the Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) in London. His paper is called “The Young Ones: adolescence, … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged children and young people's geographies, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, critical geopolitics, historical geography, Non-Stop Picket, Royal Geographical Society, social and cultural geography, Solidarity, young people's activism
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“Did you really think I wouldn’t write on your walls?”
One of the pleasures of writing this blog is the opportunity it provides to record the stories of small incidents from the history of City Group’s anti-apartheid activism that might not end up being used in our other work. This … Continue reading
Posted in Archival research, Interview material
Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, criminal damage, Direct Action, Greenham Common, greenham woman, international solidarity, legal defence, Metropolitan Police, Non-Stop Picket, police evidence, political graffiti, political slogans, prison solidarity, Solidarity, South African Embassy
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Former British ambassador praises the Non-Stop Picket
A work email account can often bring pain, as new, unanticipated tasks make unexpected and competing demands on one’s time, derailing the best laid plans. This week, however, an email arrived that had quite the opposite effect – we received … Continue reading
A (guerrilla) ‘geography project’ for South African Women’s Day
A few years ago a group of geography educators came up with the concept of ‘guerrilla geography‘ which they defined as: daring people to challenge preconceptions about places; engage in social and environmental justice; and form deeper, more active community … Continue reading
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New Publication: Practices of Solidarity
Our paper “Practices of Solidarity: Opposing apartheid in the centre of London” has now been published online by Antipode: a radical journal of Geography. The paper examines how the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group produced solidarity through the Non-Stop Picket of the … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, Antipode journal, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, political solidarity, social and cultural geography, social movement theory, social practices, solidarity activists, south african embassy in london, spatial practices
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Picketers of the Week
At various points during the four years of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy, the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group published a weekly bulletin called ‘Picketers News‘. Unlike the group’s well-designed and professionally printed newsletter Non-Stop Against Apartheid (originally, Non-Stop News) … Continue reading
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