What should the journey to justice should look like for Black lives in the UK?
Please join the Black Lives Matter Nottingham chapter and the Centre for Research in Race and Rights for a townhall meeting to decide upon our concrete goals for achieving rights, justice and equality in Nottingham, the UK and globally. It is one of four Black Lives Matter public meetings taking place across the UK on Friday evening - also in London, Manchester and Birmingham - as a way to officially launch the UK Black Lives Matter network and movement.
Nottingham is home to Europe’s first Black Lives Matter chapter. Over the past year, the chapter has built its structure and membership, formed partnerships in the UK and the US, and helped to form a UK-wide Black Lives Matter network. It has held rallies, conducted research, hosted the Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza on a visit from the US, taken part in two Westminster working groups about racial justice and black leadership, contributed to Nottingham's first black history mural, and much more. On August 5, we will hear from some speakers, debate the new policy ideas released this week by the US Movement for Black Lives coalition, and think about what a comparable set of ideas might look like for the UK and Nottingham.
This also marks the first public event attached to Journey to Justice, which comes to Nottingham in 2017. The Journey to Justice travelling exhibition at the Galleries of Justice will be accompanied by numerous initiatives and events in the community - events that begin now and continue through next year.
All are welcome to be part of a historic moment: in Nottingham's Victorian courtroom at the Galleries of Justice, Europe's first Black Lives Matter chapter - part of the largest grassroots social justice movement since the 1960s - will formulate its policy demands for black power, freedom and justice.