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Wednesday Jun 28, 2006

Busy, busy, busy!

 Hello! Apologies for the lack of new posts from me recently but I've been pretty busy with exams! Now they're all over I'm going to have plenty of time to do a lot more work for LMHR and keep this blog up to date.

Quite a lot has happened since I last wrote anything – the most major event being the fact that (due to the fact we had some pretty appalling election results in our area – despite a lot of campaigning and hard work..) we have our own focus group in Barking and Dagenham. We had our first meeting a few weeks back to discuss some initial ideas and plans of action for the area. Most of these I'm not sure I can discuss here but it's all pretty exciting! They're gonna keep me pretty busy this summer!

One of the main things we are currently organising is a school's tour of Barking and Dagenham. We go into a secondary school with a speaker from LMHR and a musical artist – someone who the students respect and listen to and talk to them about what we do and why it's important to be culturally tolerant – that racism isn't acceptable. Right now were approaching both schools and artists who want to take part and arranging dates.. it takes a lot of organising.. Our first is pretty soon and I'll be helping out at that too. The second should hopefully be at my school – I had to go have formal meeting with my head teacher to propose the idea which was pretty scary but he was quite enthusiastic which was brilliant and it should go well.

I'll also be doing some work in the LMHR office whenever I'm free over the summer to help with the work load and wherever I'm needed with all the usual gigs, festivals and events. There's also the RISE anti-racist festival next week in Finsbury park which I will be attending however it's arranged by the Mayor of London, not us, so it probably wont be as good!  I'll certainly have lots to do anyway – at least it'll take my mind of my looming exam results!

Posted by Carolynn ( 1:33 PM )
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