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My highlights: History, Education, and Policing
The week of 18 February 2013 offered many opportunities for reminiscing, reflection, critical analysis and for planning collective action on a number of fronts, history, education and race and policing and community security among them. On Wednesday 20 February, Global Hands and DeMontfort University, Leicester, hosted a one day symposium on Police Reform and Developing
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An eulogy to Willis Wilkie
Every day in every community, ordinary working people do extraordinary acts of great selflessness and courage in the service of their community. We tend to hear and write about luminaries and celebrities and not about them. I was privileged to be asked to join Fr Nigel Orchard at Christ the Redeemer C of E church
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Our tribute to Gerry German: an update
I can now tell you that we will pay tribute to Gerry German and send him off at a thanksgiving service at All Saints Church, Clydesdale Road, off Portobello Road, London W11 1JE (see map below), next Monday 14 May at 12.30pm. I do very much hope you can join us to honour that great,
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Celebrating the life and work of Geraldine Connor
Professor Gus John is proud to invite all of you to the “Gala of Gari“: a celebration of the life and work of Geraldine Connor featuring the words, dance and music that she loved. This special gala in remembrance of Geraldine Connor will have extracts from Geraldine’s best-known work Carnival Messiah (see video above) - her large-scale reinvention
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Eulogy to Geraldine Roxanne Connor
I feel deeply honoured to have been asked by Geraldine’s family to deliver this eulogy. I have undertaken many an assignment in my day, but none with such foreboding as this. For, how does one do justice to such a monumental figure, one with such irrepressible…., volcanic energy, an energy which won’t be totally consumed,
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