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Lucille Bowling – Bowling Home Improvements

Bowling Home Improvements are based in Ferryhill but we cover the whole of the North East. We cover all aspects of construction work from barn conversions and full house renovations to electrics, plastering and joinery. We love what we do and pride ourselves on the reputation that we’ve earned through our hard work.  We work to an incredibly high standard and provide fantastic customer service.

November 9, 2017

Stacey Jackson – The Lovely Wedding Company

I am a videographer specialising in Weddings but I am also starting to expand my business into commercial. I work with the client from the beginning to the very end of the process to find out exactly what they want and create something they will want to cherish forever.

November 9, 2017

18 November 2017 13:00 ~ Shut Down Yarls Wood & ALL Detention Centres Demonstration! – Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary – Bedford

Until 17:00 @ Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Bedford, Bedfordshire

Time to build the Twelfth demonstration at Yarl’s Wood – lets shut down this racist, sexist hellhole once and for all!

SHUT DOWN YARLSWOOD
SHUT DOWN ALL DETENTION CENTRES

Movement for Justice have held 11 demonstrations at the notorious Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre. With every demonstration there is more vibrancy, more anger, more determination – with ex detainees, asylum seekers, feminist and anti racist activists from around the country demonstrating right at the fences of Yarl’s Wood.

The women behind the fences join the demonstrations from their rooms with handmade banners, signs, ribbons of toilet paper, their arms and legs – deifying guards threats to express their rage and determination for freedom. We come together and everyone leaves feeling stronger and more determined.

The Surround Yarl’s Wood demonstrations are palpable, direct and visibly impactful acts of solidarity. They give the women inside the strength to continue their daily resistance to racism, sexual abuse, deportations, and inadequate mental and physical healthcare. They have also inspired a whole generation of new young activists across the country to take up the fight against detention, the brutalities and racism of the immigration system and borders.

In Yarl’s Wood 400+ women are indefinitely detained, most of whom have experienced rape, domestic violence, torture, forced marriage, sexual abuse, FGM, persecution due to sexuality. Many of whom have long and deep connections to the UK, have been here most of their lives, have all their family and friends here. Many have children; some are pregnant, elderly, disabled, sick and have mental health difficulties.

Yarl’s Wood has been exposed time after time in undercover investigations, government reports, inspectorate reports, and inquiry findings for sexual abuse/harassment by guards towards the women. Undercover footage by Channel 4 news showed the brutal, racist attitude of the guards.

These demonstrations keep Yarl’s Wood on the national agenda, they make it clear that there is only one solution – SHUT IT DOWN

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November 9, 2017

17 November 2017 17:00 ~ A Free Screening of Queen Nanny – Legendary Maroon Chieftainess – Newham Community Cinema – London

Until 20:00 Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, Stratford, London E15 1EL

A one-hour feature documentary “that unearths and examines the mysterious figure that is Nanny of the Maroons – one of the most celebrated, but least recognised heroines in the resistance history of the New World.

The film also sheds light on the incredible resistance movement of the Jamaican Maroons, led by the indomitable 18th century military genius, Nanny of the Maroons. A spiritual leader, skilled in the use of herbs and guerilla warfare tactics, from her mountain stronghold at the source of the Stony River in the majestic Blue Mountains, she directed the warfare that effectively neutralised the vaunted British firepower.

Following on the heels of Akwantu: the Journey (2012), Anderson’s award-winning film on the history of the Jamaican Maroons, Queen Nanny expands on the story of the New World’s first successful freedom fighters by shedding light on to one of the leading figures in that struggle.”

Dir: Roy T. Anderson
Cert: TBC
Dur: 1h

Q&A: Courttia Newland (Author, Screenwriter, Playwright, Creative Writing Tutor, Literary Activist)

  • 00pm: Doors open + Special Readings by Courttia Newland
  • 15pm: Film starts promptly
  • 15pm: Q&A
  • 00pm: Venue closes

Trailer

Free refreshments available!

Admission is on a first come, first served basis.

Register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/newham-word-festival-queen-nanny-legendary-maroon-chieftainess-tickets-39080326308

November 9, 2017