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		<title>Defining the &#8216;African family&#8217; &#8211; your comments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the publication of &#8220;Defining the ‘African family’ in the Global African Diaspora&#8220;,  many of you have been e-mailing me to share your comments on some of the points I raised. One of the most significant contributions came from Delroy Washburn, chairman of the Federation of Reggae Music (FORM). Here is the message he sent me: Greetings <a class="read-more-link" href="http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/05/defining-the-african-family-your-comments/"><br />...read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Defining the ‘African family’ in the Global African Diaspora</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pan-African Congress Movement (PACM) in the UK will observe Africa Liberation Day (ALD) in various cities, notably London and Birmingham, over the weekend 25- 27 May 2013, as it has done annually over many decades.  This year, celebrations take on an added significance as it is 50 years since the predecessor of the African <a class="read-more-link" href="http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/05/defining-the-african-family-in-the-global-african-diaspora/"><br />...read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;To the barricades!&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 13th May 2013, Diane Abbott MP put out a call to the 10th London Schools and the Black Child (LSBC) Conference: &#8220;Black Children &#38; Education: After Gove, where next?”. For the past 13 years, the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN) has been campaigning for equality and justice in schooling and education and against the practice of <a class="read-more-link" href="http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/05/to-the-barricades/"><br />...read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why did they have to rain on our party?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 05:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday 23 April 2013, at about 3.00pm, serious youth violence in London claimed two lives, that of Derek Boateng who turned 16 that very day and of his 15 year old assailant (who cannot be named for legal reasons). Derek was stabbed to within an inch of his life on the 393 bus and <a class="read-more-link" href="http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/05/why-did-they-have-to-rain-on-our-party/"><br />...read more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tackling school exclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gus John, Chair of the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN) announces another annual report (2012/2013) and sets out the challenges facing this charitable, community-based organization that deals with almost 1,000 school exclusion cases each year: The current education climate is such that CEN’s work and purpose become more crucial in the struggle to defend children’s fundamental <a class="read-more-link" href="http://www.gusjohn.com/2013/05/tackling-school-exclusion/"><br />...read more</a>]]></description>
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