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Tag Archives: temporalities
Stories from the green crates: exploring Steve Kitson’s papers
There are two green, plastic crates full of papers sat on the end of my desk. They smell a little damp. My office smells a little damp. The papers are squeezed so tightly into the boxes that I fear for … Continue reading
Being ‘non-stop against apartheid’: seminar in Nottingham (5 February)
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
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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
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Non-Stop Picket temporarily interrupted
Although the Metropolitan Police tried many tactics to curtail the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in the late 1980s, the Picket never had to endure the frequent eviction attempts that have characterised life at other long-term protest camps. … Continue reading
Who, what and where is ‘non-stop’?
Our major achievement this week is to finally have a complete chronological inventory of all the papers contained in the ‘archives’ of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group. This material covers the whole of the group’s existence from its formation … Continue reading
Doing time: two picketers jailed
I’ve written over the last couple of weeks about two events from January 1989 that impacted on the network of activists around the Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy. Quite soon after the deportation of Viraj Mendis and the death of … Continue reading
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