Tag Archives: Trafalgar Square

Contribution to Decolonising Geography

Posted on February 25, 2022 by Gavin Brown

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 | Leave a comment

Video of “Youth Activism and Solidarity” pavement book launch

Posted on November 23, 2019 by Gavin Brown

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 | Leave a comment

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Gavin Brown

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 | 1 Comment

Andy Higginbottom critiques the British Council’s Mandela exhibition

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Gavin Brown

An article in today’s The Conversation critiques the “Mandela and Me” exhibition at the British Council in London as corporate whitewashing for its principal sponsor, Anglo American. The article is by Andy Higginbottom an Associate Professor of International Politics, Human … Continue reading →

Posted in Dissemination, Media coverage | Tagged Andy Higginbottom, Anglo American, British Council, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Marikana Solidarity Collective, Nelson Mandela, Non-Stop Picket, Trafalgar Square | Leave a comment

A suitable anniversary: youth and student action to close apartheid’s embassy

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Gavin Brown

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 →

Posted in Archival research, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Popular & Informal Education, Project staff | Tagged apartheid in south africa, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Direct Action, National Union of Students, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square, Youth activism | 2 Comments

“Youth Activism & Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid” published

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Gavin Brown

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 | 4 Comments

“It was a dark and stormy night” (against apartheid)

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Gavin Brown

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 →

Posted in Archival research | Tagged City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Great Storm 1987, National Gallery, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa House, South African Embassy, Steve Kitson, Trafalgar Square | Leave a comment

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

On (not) being a heckler inside South Africa House

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Gavin Brown

On Thursday 20 March, the AAM Archives Committee hosted a launch event for their website, Forward to Freedom, at South Africa House in London. We were not initially invited; but, Gavin secured an invitation for himself and these are his reflections on … Continue reading →

Posted in Gavin Brown, Project staff | Tagged AAM Archive Committee, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Bob Hughes MP, Christabel Gurney, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Non-Stop Picket, South Africa House, South African Embassy, Trafalgar Square | 1 Comment