Friday 30-10-2020 - 10:54

This summer saw waves of protests across the country in opposition to police brutality and racial discrimination towards Black people in America, the UK and around the world.

Despite the difficult circumstances, students gathered in huge numbers in public and online to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Since then, your exec team has worked with the university to listen to the concerns of staff and students and draw up a report containing more than 40 actions to address the attainment gap, staff discrimination and academic representation. Click here to check it out.

However, there always more we can all do to challenge racism within our university and wider community.

We wanted to share with you some campaigns which fight for racial justice within our university and the wider Manchester area, which you can get involved with.

UoM Campaigns

• Teach Black Studies is a student led campaign which aims to implement black studies at the University of Manchester.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/teachblackstudiesuom/?hl=en

Click here to sign their Change.Org petition.

• Decolonise UoM  is a collective of staff and students at the University of Manchester who, through political education and building collective power, aim to reimagine and build a democratic, liberated and free education for all.

Check out their blog https://decoloniseuom.blogspot.com/

Join their radical readers group  https://discord.gg/xx43CJj

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DecoloniseUoM/

Twitter @decoloniseuom

Instagram decolonise_uom

 Email decoloniseuom@gmail.com

• Race Roots and Resistance Greater Manchester and North West is a democratic collective of staff, students, and community members dedicated to the critical study of race and its impact on the lived experiences of people across temporal and spatial boundaries.

Website https://www.racerootsresist.com/

Email kerry.pimblott@manchester.ac.uk

 

Manchester-wide Campaigns

• Stand Up to Racism Manchester is the Manchester branch of Stand Up to Racism UK an anti-racist organisation which aims to challenge racism in all forms.

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ManchesterStandUp/

Email mcrstanduptoracism@gmail.com

• Kids of Colour is a Manchester based social enterprise which works to inform society on the diverse experiences belonging to young people of colour and create spaces for young people of colour to come together and explore race, identity and culture and support them to challenge the racism they face.

Website https://kidsofcolour.com/  

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kidsofcolourhq/?hl=en

• Northern Police Monitoring Project is a Manchester based independent grassroots organisation working to build community resistance against police violence harassment and racism.

Website http://npolicemonitor.co.uk/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/npolicemonitor/

• All Black Lives (Manc) are a branch of all Black Lives Uk, a youth-led movement which organise regular protests in Manchester to fight for racial equality and justice for all black people in the UK.

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/allblacklivesmanc/

Twitter https://twitter.com/allblacklivesuk?lang=e