Saturday, August 17, 2019

Blinded by the Light - memories of 1980s Luton racism and job cuts

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I enjoyed 'Blinded by The Light', Gurinder Chadha's movie based on Sarfraz Manzoor’s ‘Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion,...
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Tuesday, August 06, 2019

'Seaside: Photographed' at Turner Contemporary in Margate

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'Seaside: Photographed' at Turner Contemporary gallery in Margate is a fine exhibition that seeks to ' examine the relationshi...
Saturday, July 06, 2019

'Brutal police attack on disco women' - London Lesbian Conference Social 1981

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'Brutal police attack on disco women' by Michael Mason (Gay News [London], April 16-29, 1981) 'Lesbians attending the main s...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Summer Solstice 1999: Autonomous Astronauts on Parliament Hill

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 June 1999 was arguably the high point of the Association of Autonomous Astronauts in its UK zone of operations. It was then that the AAA ...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Ghost Town racism and resistance - The Specials play Coventry 1981

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The Specials classic 'Ghost Town' single was released in June 1981. In the same month the band played an anti-racist gig in their h...
Saturday, February 16, 2019

Youth Strike 4 Climate in London

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I jogged along to cheer on the Youth Strike 4 Climate in  central London yesterday. Great to see thousands of school students seemingly wand...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

New Wave Rave 1977

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As documented here before , the words ‘rave’ and ‘ravers’ seem to date back to the post-WW2 UK jazz scene and were widely used through to th...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

How it all began (for me): a School Kid against the Nazis in Luton 1979/80

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Going on a recent march against the far right in central London got me thinking about my earliest forays into anti-fascism when I was at sch...