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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:31:54 +0100<BR>From: HackneyUnites@btinternet.com<BR>To: <BR>Subject: Hackney Unites news<BR><BR>
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<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>CLR James library</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Hopefully you will already have heard about the campaign to preserve the name CLR James for the Dalston Library. Hackney Unites is backing the campaign. CLR James was an academic, a playwright, an author, a pan-African, and an activist in so many spheres, as an organiser of share-croppers in the USA, as a Marxist theoretician, as advisor to both Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and Eric Williams in the Caribbean. He was also the founder of the Race Today collective in Brixton an organisation which nurtured Darcus Howe and Linton Kwesi Johnson. He was for many years the Guardian cricket correspondent, he was also jailed in Ellis Island in New York as dangerous subversive. His life is simply too rich to explain in a few sentences, suffice to say he is an internationally known figure and the move to remove his name from our library has offended people of goodwill from around the world. As has been said elsewhere when the library was named after him, it was a clear statement about how Hackney perceived itself. The decision to remove his name, not only risks consigning his legacy to history, but also suggests that some people in Hackney do not think he is the sort of figure we should be celebrating. </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>We are determined to prove them wrong and are backing the campaign launched by Hackney BEMA to keep the name. </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Please sign the on-line petition (please note that the request for donations is for the petitioning website and not the campaign).</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveclrjameslibrary/" target=_blank>http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveclrjameslibrary/</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Please also cascade this email on to friends, colleagues, neighbours and ask them to sign the petition. </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>We are also planning a celebration of CLR James to bring his legacy to life, if you have insights to share, of if you have ideas about how we can do this, please let us know: <A href="mailto:Hackneyunites@btinternet.com">Hackneyunites@btinternet.com</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Newsletter</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>We are currently working on a newsletter for Hackney Unites (and we have plenty to report). If you have news that you think is of interest to our community, or you would like to help in any other way please contact Andrea: <A href="mailto:andrea.enisuoh@journalist.co.uk">andrea.enisuoh@journalist.co.uk</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Workers Advice Sessions</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>If your community group would like to host an advice session with qualified employment lawyers and trade union trained organisers, please let us know. know (<A href="mailto:Hackneyunites@btinternet.com">Hackneyunites@btinternet.com</A>) </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><B><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Community census</SPAN></B></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>We want to know what people in Hackney believe are the needs and aspirations of their communities. Would you spend 45 minutes with us to discuss your views on this? If so drop us an email </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="mailto:Hackneyunites@btinternet.com">Hackneyunites@btinternet.com</A><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Regards</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>John Page</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>Secretary</SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.hackneyunites.org.uk/" target=_blank>www.hackneyunites.org.uk</A></SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB> </SPAN></P>
<P class=ecxMsoNormal><SPAN lang=EN-GB>If you do not wish to receive further emails from us, please let us know and we will remove your details from our mailing list. However, if you know of people who you think would be interested, please cascade this email on to them and invite them to sign up to the list by sending and email to <A href="mailto:Hackneyunites@btinternet.com">Hackneyunites@btinternet.com</A></SPAN></P><BR>Companies Act 2006 : <A href="http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo" target=_blank>www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo</A> <BR> </body>
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