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Stopping the Non-Stop Picket, 24 February 1990

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Gavin Brown

Today is the 25th anniversary of the end of the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The Non-Stop Picket had lasted 1408 days and nights, calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and other anti-apartheid demands. In the … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Interview material | Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop News, Non-Stop Picket, Protest Camps, South Africa House, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square | Leave a comment

Marking South Africa House with ‘blood’ on election day 1987

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Gavin Brown

As South Africa celebrates twenty years since the end of apartheid, and prepares for tomorrow’s election, I want to remember a protest that responded to a very different South African election. On 6 May 1987, there was a white-only general … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Interview material | Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Direct Action, election day, Elections in South Africa, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa, South Africa House, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square | 1 Comment

“I’m only doing my job”: a grandmother’s protest

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Gavin Brown

South African Freedom Day has long been celebrated on 26 June. The day commemorates the general strike and national day of protest that the African National Congress called on 26 June 1950. It also remembers the signing of the Freedom … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Communist Party, David Kitson, Mary Barnett, Metropolitan Police, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, Rochester Row Police Station, South Africa House, south african embassy in london, South African Embassy Picket Campaign | Leave a comment

Surveying the Anti-Apartheid Movement digital archives

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Gavin Brown

This week the digital archives of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement have gone live online. The website, Forward to Freedom, charts the history of the AAM from 1959 until 1994. It provides a rich resource of photos, interviews, video clips and scanned documents … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged AAM Archive Committee, AAM Archives, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Bodleian Library, Christabel Gurney, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, Forward to Freedom, Non-Stop Picket, Ruskin College, south african embassy in london, South African Embassy Picket Campaign, TASS | 4 Comments

Being ‘non-stop against apartheid’: seminar in Nottingham (5 February)

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Gavin Brown

On Wednesday 5th February 2014 Gavin Brown will be giving a seminar at the University of Nottingham about the Non-Stop Picket project. His talk is called “Being ‘non-stop against apartheid’: the spatialities and temporalities of British solidarity activism in the late … Continue reading →

Posted in Academic, Dissemination | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, London in the 1980s, Non-Stop Picket, protest infrastructure, protest movements, social and cultural geography, south african embassy in london, temporalities, Trafalgar Square, University of Nottingham | Leave a comment

Mandela Memories: connecting through protest

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Gavin Brown

Recently, I retold some of the stories about the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy that people had shared with me, through this blog, in the days following Nelson Mandela’s death. Most of the stories I recounted in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview material | Tagged anti-apartheid songs, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Jesse Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square | Leave a comment

Non-Stop Against Apartheid in 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Two events in 2013 brought significantly increased traffic to the Non-Stop Against Apartheid blog: the first was Margaret Thatcher‘s death; the second, of course, was Nelson Mandela’s. The day after Thatcher died, this blog received its most traffic in a single … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Interview material, Popular & Informal Education | Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Dunnes Store Strikers, Dunnes Stores Strikers, Ken Bodden, Leicester, Margaret Thatcher, Metropolitan Police, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela's death, Non-Stop Picket, Pan-Africanist Congress, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square, workers' sanctions, Zolile Hamilton Keke | Leave a comment

A tribute to Mandela from Trafalgar Square to Houghton

Posted on December 20, 2013 by Gavin Brown

When the members of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group stood for four years outside South Africa House in the 1980s communications with South Africa could be tricky. The South African government’s censorship meant that news of anti-apartheid protests in … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Interview material | Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Houghton, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela's death, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa, south african embassy in london | 1 Comment

Non-Stop for Mandela: reflections on London’s four-year continuous protest for his release

Posted on December 5, 2013 by Gavin Brown

Nelson Mandela’s death has been announced tonight (5 December 2013). Although this news is not unexpected, its impact on people around the world will be significant, not least for those who maintained a four-year protest for his release in central London. In the late 1980s … Continue reading →

Posted in Archival research, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Interview material, Project staff | Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, free nelson mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela's death, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, South African Embassy, south african embassy in london, Trafalgar Square, Umkhonto we Siswe | 3 Comments

New Publication: Practices of Solidarity

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Gavin Brown

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 | 1 Comment