Cross-Community Forum

Wednesday 31 January 2007, 10am-5pm At London South Bank University, Elephant and Castle Campus, Main Lecture Theatre, The Keyworth Centre, Keyworth Street. Hosted by London South Bank University Student Union, in association with the Pan Afrikan Youth and Students Internationalist Link and supported by the NUS Black Students Campaign

2007 Bicentenary Cross-Community Forum on 'Global Justice Today and the Legacies of Enslavement'

What is the 2007 Bicentenary Cross-Community Forum?

2007 marks the bicentenary of the British Parliamentary Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Two hundred years ago, the successes made through various forms of abolitionist struggle by Africans both on the continent and in the Diaspora mobilised people of conscience in Britain to advance the country’s most popular, democratic and perhaps most significant mass mobilisation ever. Across the UK and beyond, both Black and White communities played an enormously influential role in suppressing and outlawing this horrendous crime against humanity.

2007 is an unprecedented opportunity for Britain to make groundbreaking progress on repairing the damage of 400 years of enslavement to Africans, African Descendants, White people and communities of other cultural heritage.

The theme of the first Cross-Community Forum of 2007 is Global Justice Today and the Legacies of Enslavement. It will explore how a broad range of global issues – for example people trafficking, racial justice, migration and asylum, environment and ecology, debt and conditionality – are connected to chattel enslavement and its legacies. It will provide an opportunity to explore the relationship between current global justice issues and historical enslavement, resistance and abolition and to discuss how we can work together to ensure that 2007 is a key turning point on some of the most rucial global issues that the world faces today.

Hosted by London South Bank University Student Union, in association with the Pan Afrikan Youth and Students Internationalist Link (PAYSIL) and supported by the NUS Black Students Campaign.

For further info or to receive a booking form, contact us at:
2007 Cross-Community Forum c/o Rendezvous of Victory (ROV), Anti- Slavery International, Thomas Clarkson House, The Stableyard, Broomgrove Rd, London SW9 9TL
Email: crosscommunityforum@rendezvousofvictory.org
Tel: 07984 996784 or 020 7738 3186