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Video - Public Meeting Online |
See video of COBG Public Meeting online You can also access the video by clicking Historical Context or COBG... menu items to the left and clicking the VIDEO - ... link. |
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COBG offer strategy for dealing with commemorations in new position statement. |
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The COBG (Consortium of Black Groups) have published a new position statement, with a deep and wide range of calls for how the city should, and should not, commemorate 'Maafa'. After condeming the city's move towards commemorating the 'abolition of the slave trade' in 2007, the Consortium of Black Groups have published a statement giving the city institutions a road-map of how the commemorations should be handled. The statement vows that the consortium will campaign against stagey insensitive activities, while continuing to campaign for sustainable and significant measures targeted at redressing inequalities associated with the legacy of enslavement of Africans. The proposals also assert 2007 as a milestone on a much longer journey.
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Is Bristol ready for 2007? |
I’ve lived in Bristol my whole life. I’ve watched the unsavoury aspects of recent arguments over the dropping of the Merchants Quarter name for the Broadmead expansion and the Slavery apology with sadness but little surprise. They are evidence of a deeper truth that underlies life in Bristol – that although the terms on which we interact may have changed, race is as potentially divisive as it ever was. Two great ideas from history come to mind. |
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