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The IWW and the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Fellow Workers, I cannot express how proud I am to have our BAME Officer, Andrea Gilbert as a member of our union. She does so much for her community and for us in the IWW – one such thing Andrea…

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Reparations for the Translatlantic Slave Trade

Andrea Gilbert, IWW BAME Officer The murder of George Floyd in the US shocked the world and started an international wave of mass protests against Police brutality and Racism towards Black people. The officers were all arrested and charged for…

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LGBT History Month: BAME Workers

LGBT History Month: BAME Workers

IWW BAME Officer Andrea Gilbert, bame [at] iww [dot] org [dot] uk The IWW BAME officer in solidarity with Ethnic minority LGBT fellow workers in the IWW during LGBT History month.  According to the LGBT- Home and communities report Ethnic…

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Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day

IWW BAME officer Andrea Gilbert Holocaust memorial day is a day of remembrance across the world scarred by Genocide. On this day we remember the six million murdered during the Holocaust alongside the millions killed by the Nazis under persecution.…

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Defend BAME Tenants!

Defend BAME Tenants!

IWW BAME officer Andrea Gilbert In the UK mass evictions are currently on the horizon for many people living in the private rented sector. As it stands 840,000 households are in rent arrears and 70,000 have been made homeless during…

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Tell the government: BAME workers need pay protection during Covid

Tell the government: BAME workers need pay protection during Covid

Fellow Workers, Covid-19 has had a profound effect on our, and indeed, every society. I’m sure there those amongst the readers of this very message who have suffered, and suffered enormously, from being infected. Of course, the harm inflicted by…

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Support Osime Brown

IWW officers stand against Osime’s deportation. IWW Regional Secretary William Sharkey: Fellow Workers, I would like to take this opportunity to condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the plan to deport Osime Brown to Jamaica; a country he has not…

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Stop Traveller Hate

Stop Traveller Hate

Andrea Gilbert, IWW BAME officer The Traveller community have been targeted with racist and traumatic abuse following a documentary by Channel 4 about “The truth about Traveller Crime.” The aim was to show the increase of crime within the community…

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Supporting Unhoused Migrants Against Deportation

Supporting Unhoused Migrants Against Deportation

Andrea Gilbert, IWW BAME officer The IWW BAME Officer brought forward a motion at the Equalities Committee meeting on Wednesday 16th December. The motion was brought to the Committee in support of unhoused migrants at risk of being reported to…

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