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From Dorset to Oxfordshire to London to Bristol and beyond the campaign is spreading to change the school curriculum and to dump the colonisation of it by a parochial and de contextualised curriculum. As part of this a student has launched a petition calling for all schools in the UK...
Local residents to welcome refugees to Portland barge on Tuesday Welcome event – Tuesday 1 August, 9am at Portland Port, Castletown, Portland, Dorset DT5 1BD Refugees are due to arrive on the controversial Portland barge on Tuesday 1 August. Some will be coming from hotels in Bournemouth - despite reports of unresolved...
Stand Up To Racism and Portland Global Friendship Group will be welcoming refugees as No To The Barge Group March  Refugees are Welcome! A SHOW OF WELCOME AT PORTLAND PORT SUNDAY 19 NOVEMBER 12 noon Portland Port DT5 1BD Free tea, coffee, biscuits and cakes.  An inspiring public meeting in Portland on Wednesday 15 November...
The University of Bristol as we know succumbed to a longstanding pro-Israel pressure campaign targeted at Professor David Miller, based on his important scholarship on Islamophobia. In 2019, Professor Miller gave a lecture on the ‘Five Pillars of Islamophobia’ as part of a module called ‘Harms of the Powerful’. Among...
We didn’t milkshake Carl Benjamin. I’m sorry for letting everyone down. Let me explain.  After an intense social media and writing campaign on the part of the organisers and me, so 20-30 people from around South Dorset turned up at midday on Friday to counter-protest the odious UKIP campaign that...
TV historian David Olusoga has thanked former England footballer and schoolmate "tough kid" Paul Gascoigne for stepping in to help when he was subjected to racist abuse as a child. Born in his father's home country of Nigeria, Olusoga moved to his mother's home of Gateshead, in Tyne and Wear, when he...
The Dorset Welcome Fund has reopened, offering grants of up to £5,000 to voluntary groups and charities to support community action that helps refugees and asylum seekers of any nationality arriving, residing, or settling in Dorset. The fund is once again being supported with contributions of £50,000 from Dorset Council and £30,000...
On 25 January 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who...
The Tories’ racist campaign against refugees has plumbed new depths. Vulnerable people who have undertaken long, risky journeys in the search for asylum are to be put in a barge in Portland Harbour. Here they will be held in a security zone and forced to comply with a night-time...
Welcome event – Tuesday 1 August, 9am at Portland Port, Castletown, Portland, Dorset DT5 1BD Refugees are due to arrive on the controversial Portland barge on Tuesday 1 August. Some will be coming from hotels in Bournemouth - despite reports of unresolved health and safety issues on the Bibby Stockholm. Stand Up to Racism Dorset, trade...