Racist attack on Chinese takeaway in Blackburn. Solidarity with East Asian people facing racial violence in Britain and beyond
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Adam Elliott-Cooper
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Occasional geographer | 🇱🇨 Author of Black Resistance to British Policing
- This black barrister/defendant discussion reminds me of something a friend used to say: Liberal black academics ask why they're always confused for a cleaner. Radical black academics ask why all the cleaners are black.
- Looks like a few of the young organisers have been doing some history research outside the national curriculum #BlackLivesMatterUK
- A black man has died in British police custody after becoming “unresponsive” in a police cell in Devon
- At last, a public inquiry into whether the sky is blue. About time.
- Evening course - Stuart Hall: Hegemony, Culture, and Politics Want to read Hall but don't know where to start? Like Hall but want to know more? My online short course is returning this March. Registeration now open. thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/courses/…
- I hate the bureaucratic language of BAME as much as anyone else, but focusing on language and labels in anti-racism, means the government can win easy points for doing nothing that addresses the racism which exploits, excludes and kills.
- A black boy of 16, attacked and seriously injured by far-right opponents of a Black Lives Matter demonstration in London, was stopped and searched by the policeman he had asked for help.
- A movement against climate change with literally zero analysis of state power. We’re doomed.Most police are reasonable people. Some are idiots. No different to the rest of society. We hope that the police will soon join with the rebellion, either passively or actively, in a move that would force the government to the negotiating table.
- The way people talk about Churchill, you'd have thought he defeated Hitler in a one-on-one gladiator-style battle to the deathLooks like a few of the young organisers have been doing some history research outside the national curriculum #BlackLivesMatterUK
- The minister who resigned over the Windrush scandal now minister for equalities... a sign of things to come I guess
- My adopted academic family and I have been trying to make sense of the multiple crises we face. We’re nearly ready to share it with the world. Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State Out early next year with Pluto Press d24gssfg51q0py.cloudfront.net/wp-content/upl…
- 443 rejected a knighthood, MBE, OBE or other awards in recognition of their merit, service or bravery from 2011 to this year
- Black woman with respiratory problems which deemed her 'at risk' is not signed off from her job at Victoria Station. She is spat at by a member of the public, and dies of Covid-19.
