Our next Anti-Racism meeting will be on zoom on Wednesday 21st April at 5:30-7PM. Please watch at least one of the following three to discuss collectively.For our next zoom session, please engage with 1 of the 3 following (or al! 3):
FILM BLACKKkKLANSMAN. Watch the Trailer here [Available via Netflix & BFI website] BLACKKkKLANSMAN is a 2018 American biographical black comedy crime film directed by Spike Lee based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth.
TED TALK David R.Williams: How racism makes us sick? (17.18 mins) https://www.ted.com/talks/david_r_williams_how_racism_makes_us_sick?language=en [linked to upcoming lecture May 12th] Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being, going beyond traditional measures like income and education to reveal how factors like implicit bias, residential segregation and negative stereotypes create and sustain inequality.
PODCAST. Episode 1 of Remember and Resist: Borders, Solidarity and The Essex 39
https://daikon.co.uk/blog/remember-and-resist-podcast
The first panel discussion explores histories of organising around the Dover 58 and Morecambe Bay incidents where many Chinese migrants lost their lives; issues faced by Chinese, East and Southeast Asian survivors of domestic violence; and trafficking narratives surrounding Vietnamese undocumented migrants. We hope that this can be the beginning of more critical conversations about the histories of Southeast and East Asian communities in the UK. Our speakers were Jabez Lam, Tina Ma and Tamsin Barber and the panel was chaired by Jun Pang.
We plan to do something the following day, a collective action for Stephen Lawrence Day 2021 (SLDay 21) Thursday 22nd April. [TBC]. Where we hope to do a solidarity walk and a reading from book And Still I Rise by Baroness Doreen Lawrence.
We currently have a slow read of the book Do Not Say We have Nothing by Madeleine Thien which we will discuss early June. Costing £8.36 from Bookshop.org. Let us know if you need financial assistance in purchasing this book. It will also be available to rent for free from our Anti-Racist Library as of May 1st.
[Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations—those who lived through Mao’s Cultural Revolution and their children, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square. At the center of this epic story are two young women, Marie and Ai-Ming. Through their relationship Marie strives to piece together the tale of her fractured family in present-day Vancouver, seeking answers in the fragile layers of their collective story. Her quest will unveil how Kai, her enigmatic father, a talented pianist, and Ai-Ming’s father, the shy and brilliant composer, Sparrow, along with the violin prodigy Zhuli were forced to reimagine their artistic and private selves during China’s political campaigns and how their fates reverberate through the years with lasting consequences.]
We will discuss this book at the end of May.
Available via bookshop for £8.36. Please let Eo know if you need any financial assistance with making this purchase via eo@woodlandscommunity.org.uk
Zoom link for tonight's meeting:
Topic: Anti-Racism Community Reflection
Time: Apr 21, 2021 05:30 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86852436714?pwd=c05KV25odSt6NzJ6bWNjNmlpZGkzdz09
Meeting ID: 868 5243 6714
Passcode: 967987
Any questions, thoughts, recommending reading/listening/viewing for our group please email
eo@woodlandscommunity.org.uk
We hope to see you there. Always feel free to come along even if you haven't engaged with our chosen materials as it can still be a great experience to hear people talk about what they've learned.