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Tag Archives: South African Embassy
Contribution to Decolonising Geography
This week Gavin Brown has contributed a post about the Non-Stop Picket and the forms of informal, anti-racist political education that took place on it, to the Decolonising Geography blog. Gavin concludes his contribution by stating: Although the Non-Stop Picket … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged apartheid in south africa, black consciousness movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, decolonization, informal education, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, Pan-Africanist Congress, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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Video of “Youth Activism and Solidarity” pavement book launch
On 9 August 2019, we held a launch event for the paperback edition of our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid. The launch took place on the pavement in front of South Africa House where the Non-Stop … Continue reading
Posted in Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Amandla Kitson, Anti-Apartheid Movement, anti-apartheid songs, Carol Brickley, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, David Kitson, David Yaffe, international solidarity, internationalism, Non-Stop Picket, Norma Kitson, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, Youth activism
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Posted in Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, Revolutionary Communist Group, Solidarity, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, Youth activism
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“Youth Activism and Solidarity” now out in paperback
We are pleased to announce that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid is now published in paperback. From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London … Continue reading
Non-Stop Picket in the ‘Official’ Mandela Exhibition
On 8 February 2019 a new ‘official’ exhibition about Mandela’s life in London’s Waterloo. The exhibition has been organised by one of Mandela’s grandsons and pitches itself in the following terms: Nelson Mandela: The Official Exhibition is the major new global … Continue reading
“Youth Activism and Solidarity” out in paperback in March
The paperback edition of Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid will finally be published in March 2019. Watch this space for details of a launch event in London for the new paperback edition.
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged anti-imperialism, apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, international solidarity, Non-Stop Picket, Solidarity, South Africa, South African Embassy, Youth activism
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A suitable anniversary: youth and student action to close apartheid’s embassy
It is a joyful coincidence that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid has been published on 19 October 2017. On this day, thirty-two years ago, hundreds of students and other young people took mass direct action … Continue reading
“Youth Activism & Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid” published
We are pleased to announce that our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid is published, by Routledge, today. From April 1986 until just after Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990, supporters of the City of London … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Helen Yaffe, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff
Tagged Anti-Apartheid Movement, apartheid regime, children and young people's geographies, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, critical geopolitics, Geography, historical geography, international solidarity, internationalism, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, political geography, social and cultural geography, social movements, Solidarity, South Africa, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square
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“It was a dark and stormy night” (against apartheid)
This weekend England is remembering the 30th anniversary of “The Great Storm” of 1987. On the night of 15 October, the South of England and France’s Atlantic coast were hit by one of the most powerful storms in living memory. … Continue reading
Opposing apartheid then, defending human rights now
On Tuesday 8 December (at 18.30), as part of the Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Gavin Brown will be giving a talk, at the Secular Hall, exploring what anti-apartheid campaigning in the 1980s can teach human rights defenders … Continue reading
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