London Anti-Racism Training

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London Anti-Racism Training

This training for climate activists will dive into practical skills around structural changes essential for fostering anti-racist movements.

By Friends of the Earth

Date and time

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 10:00 - 17:00 GMT

Location

Friends of the Earth Offices

First Floor, The Printworks 139 Clapham Road London SW9 0HP United Kingdom

About this event

Join us for our anti-racism training tailored for climate activists, where we dive into practical skills and do some thinking around structural changes essential for fostering anti-racist movements.


We'll explore the intersection between climate justice and racial justice and shed light on Britain's historical relationship with racism and anti-racism efforts. We’re also going to be delving into the nuanced dynamics at play when building anti-racism campaigns within the wider climate movement.


This training is not just an opportunity to learn but a call to action, giving participants some of the tools to contribute to a more equitable and united fight for a sustainable future. This training is a step towards building a climate movement that reflects the diversity of voices and experiences around us.


After the training you will have the opportunity to work with your local staff members and the antiracist consultant to start embedding antiracism into your current or new campaigns. We also have a small grant that is available to apply for after you have attended the training to help with this work.


We also know that this work can greatly impact activists who are people of colour, so for this reason we are offering 1-2-1 therapeutic support from USEMI after the training so that you have space to talk and be heard.


We’ll provide lunch and refreshments on the day so please state if you have any dietary requirements when you sign up for the training.


Who is this training/course for?

  • Local action group members who want to learn skills and feel confident to embed anti-racism into their local and national campaigns.
  • We feel that it would be best to have as many people from each group attend as possible so that the learning is shared by the whole group and it’s easier to implement new ways of working together as a team.
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Why attend?


  • Be trained by a highly experienced anti-racism consultant who has lots of experience in developing and running anti-racism and environmental justice campaigns
  • Gain skills and feel confident to develop and run environmental justice campaigns with an anti-racism focus.


What to expect/agenda

  • Linking Racial justice and Climate Justice
  • A history of British Racism
  • Understanding structural racism
  • Community Mapping
  • Understanding anti-racist campaigns
  • Spectrum of Allies
  • Building anti-racist campaigns


Your hosts/facilitators

  • Bilal Hussain
  • Fiona Whyte
  • Ted Burke


A word from our trainer Bilal:


"Hi! I’m Bilal Hussain. I’m a Nottingham lad from a working-class family, both of my parents immigrated to the UK from Kashmir. I’ve had the good fortune of working across campaigns ranging from getting misogyny recognised as a hate crime, organising living wages for service sector workers to organising solidarity actions addressing the occupation of Kashmir and Palestine and Uyghur internment camps in China.

My core experience is in community and trade union organising, bringing different communities together to address issues and build power. As for anti-racism organising, I worked with and against Nottinghamshire police on racial profiling in communities and on discriminative policing practices such as the use of stop and search powers.

In recent years I have designed programmes to develop political candidates and activists from communities of colour, delivered projects combating islamophobia and antisemitism, trained hundreds of trade union activists in anti-racism and organising at Unite, Unison and the NEU, from mainly white racialised backgrounds, and oversaw the development of the Anti-Racism Network at Amnesty UK working towards addressing racism as a human rights issue.

I am excited to work with Friends of the Earth. I hope some of my experiences will be of service to your community."

Ticket information

T ickets are free: But please bear in mind mind we plan the event and order refreshments based on the registrations, and we have limited tickets. Please only book a ticket if you intend to come!

Young people: Under 16s need to be accompanied by a parent/guardian, or responsible adult (with parental consent). 16 and 17 year olds can attend unaccompanied (with parental consent required in advance). Unfortunately, we are not able to offer childcare provision.

Cancellations: If you book a ticket, but subsequently find you can't attend, please cancel your ticket. This helps us know who is attending, plan the event, and offer your place to someone else.

Bursary offer: We do not have a budget available to cover travel generally but if travel costs are a barrier to you attending please contact us and we will try and work something out.

Accessibility


The venue and building is fully wheelchair accessible via ramp and lift. Please notify us if you are a wheelchair user so we can meet you on arrival as the ramp is a separate entrance.

During this training we will use Powerpoint and take part in group work.

In addition we have the follow processes in place to support accessibility:


  • If you require a BSL interpreter or language interpreter please contact community@foe.co.uk when booking or at least two weeks before the training and we will aim to book this service. If there are no available interpreters, we will work with you to do whatever we can to support your engagement in the training.
  • PowerPoints and handouts will be emailed prior to training.
  • We welcome carers and support workers to attend training alongside any participants. Please let us know when registering so we can ensure that you are paired in any group activities.

Please let us know via the booking form if you have any other accessibility requirements or alternatively, you can email us on community@foe.co.uk to talk to us about it.


Travel


Getting there:

The venue is best reached by public transport. The Printworks is closest to Stockwell Underground station which is on the Victoria and Northern Lines. This is around a 10 minute walk.


A link to the location on googlemaps is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/EgCtAkuCKXa4Zo3V9

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