Anti racism - Dorset West

If you have children or grandchildren or are a teacher... please show this great clip to them. https://twitter.com/cbbc/status/1271129658722070529?s=20

CALL-OUT FROM BRIDPORT Thousands of people have demonstrated across Dorset in support of Black Lives Matter. Please support Saturday's event in Bridport: SATURDAY 13 JUNE, 12 noon, assemble at Mountfield, Millennium Gardens, Bridport. Access from Downes Street, off East Street (car park nearby). Please bring placards, banners - and your voices. Please take care...

Many people on social media have criticised Dorset police in recent days for their disproportionate stop and search activity against BAME members of communities. 'Racial disproportionality continues to be high for black people across Dorset. In 2017/18, black people were stopped and searched at approximately sixteen and a half times...

Alongside many others across the UK Millie Cridland from Weymouth took the knee to symbolically call for justice for George Floyd, murdered by police officers in the US, and to make her mark for Black Lives Matter. Millie said 'I had to do it when I heard it was taking...

Volunteers are needed to help newly-arrived refugee families from Syria get used to life in Dorset. Under the Syrian Resettlement Programme, 15 families and 35 children have so far begun new lives in Dorset. Volunteers are needed to help them settle in, perhaps by taking them shopping, playing with children...

There are problems with the current definition of ‘antisemitism’ as defined in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance that are being discussed in the Labour Party right now.  Most of the legal definitions in the text are acceptable insofar that no one should hate anyone for their religion, creed or race....

Nabil Amra is about to race his 38ft yacht around the world in the second edition of the Golden Globe Race, leaving France on the 1st July. Why’s this important to lefties? He’s flying the Palestinian flag. I will be upfront here and say that I am one of “Labour’s...

Why should you report Hate Crime? By reporting hate crime when it happens to you, this may help prevent it happening to someone else. It also helps to understand the extent and impact of discrimination or prejudice. You can report it as a victim, a witness or on behalf of someone else. Hate crime...

A black actor performing in a play about racial discrimination was questioned by police outside the theatre where he was about to perform. Oraine Johnson is currently appearing in Sorry! No Coloureds, No Irish, No Dogs from Gazebo Theatre. The play explores racism in the UK through significant figures...