🔥Conference for the Black Child: After Child Q, Racist Police Out Our Schools🔥
🗓️ Sat 11 June 🕚 11am – 5pm
Stoke Newington School, Hackney
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A hybrid physical and online conference organising action to fight institutional racism in our schools in the wake of the Child Q outrage, hosted by Diane Abbott MP
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🔥 Speakers confirmed so far:
Diane Abbott MP Professor Gus John Patrick Vernon OBE Lester Holloway editor The Voice Leroy Logan former superintendent in the Metropolitan police & author of Closing Ranks: My Life as a Cop Keith Davidson author of Education: A pathway to success for black children Rosemary Campbell-Stephens author & veteran educator and anti-racist activist Kevin Courtney NEU general secretary Jahnine Davis co founder and director Listen Up & National Child Safeguarding Practice Review panel Jermaine Jackman 2014 winner of The Voice Roger McKenzie Liberation general secretary Weyman Bennett Stand Up To Racism co convenor Chantelle Lunt Merseyside BLM Attiq Malik Liberty Law Solicitors Maz Saleem daughter of Mohammed Saleem who was murdered by a neo-Nazi in April 2013 Daniel Kebede NEU president Jaqueline Courtenay organiser of the Child Q mass protest at Hackney Town Hall Juliana Ojinnaka UCU Black Members Committee chair Kudsia Batool TUC Head of Equalities Margaret Greer Unison National Black Members Organiser Zita Holbourne PCS vice president Maxine Looby UCU vice president
🔥Plenaries and workshops:
📣Tell It Like It Is: organising against racism in our schools, from exclusions to Black Achievement 📣Racist Police Out of Our Schools 📣Black educators organising against institutional racism 📣Decolonising our education system 📣Adultification of Black children 📣Parents organising against racism in our schools 📣Opposing the hostile environment and its impact in education —scrap the Border Act 📣Trojan Horse, Prevent— Islamophobia in our schools and universities 📣Students and school students organising against institutional racism
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Could you join the team of stewards to help run the conference on the day? If so, please email conf4blackchild@gmail.com to let us know.