SAVE UPPER NORWOOD LIBRARY March 20, 2012

Public consultation on options for the future library provision in Upper Norwood and the surrounding areas is now being undertaken.
Responses are sought from the whole community, including library users, local community groups, representatives from neighbouring boroughs and those who might not at present use the library at all. The questions being asked are around current and future library provision, as well as the potential impact that each of four options might have on individuals and their communities.
Croydon Councils consultation document and questionnaire can now be accessed online at:
http://www.croydon.gov.uk/democracy/consultations/upper-norwood-library-provision/ and hard copies are available to fill in at the Upper Norwood Joint Library, Croydon branch libraries and from council offices.

A deadline of 29 April has been set for people to submit their views.

Please be assured that all correspondence has been noted and we are logging all feedback we are receiving from the community.

Yours sincerely,

Aileen Cahill

Head of Libraries and Culture

London Borough of Croydon

020 8253 1001

aileen.cahill@croydon.gov.uk

Andy Pag a TH Hero January 28, 2010

Picture Palace Campaign Request for Support -Come on the Campaign Coaches and show your support at the Bromley Planning Committee 7pm Thursday 17 December December 10, 2009

Dear Friends of the Picture Palace Campaign,
After such a fantastic show of support at the Queens Hotel in October, we are asking everyone who volunteered their details and gave offers of help, if you could come and show your support again please at the Planning Committee to be held at Bromley Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley BR1 3UH on Thursday 17 December starting at 7pm.

VOTE FOR GRANGEWOOD PARK!!! November 25, 2009

http://www.croydononline.org/parkstobeproudof/vote.asp?park=2

Thornton Heath’s many small churches… September 8, 2009

It strikes me that the many little churches, are probably the most effective bulwark against racism in Thornton Heath at present. I might be wrong but there seems to be little else for young people or parents to turn to. e.g. As C pointed out there is no adventure playground. A place that often plays a role in supporting young people who are under various forms of pressure.

The non-establishment churches seem to be able to combine a mixture of black cultural identity reinforcement, emotional viserality, ethical frameworks and role models combined with an appearance of repectability which allows the congregations young people to appear acceptable to a racist white world of work. Unfortunately what goes with all this is a lack of critique and thinking about how to change that world. Anger is subsummed by ritual I guess.

Hip hop broadly offers a critique and form of cultural resistance but only a minority of young people can make a living from this… leaving the others to adjust to a second life or turn to crime and gang culture. It not a great choice at the moment for black youth.

Why adventure play?

I just found (jan 2010) this quote:
“The church has been more than a wellspring from which African-American music has poured forth over time. In 1963′s Blues People, a seminal treatise on the music that emerged from the Negro experience in America, Leroi Jones observes: “The early black Christian churches or the pre-church ‘praise houses’ became essential focal points of Negro social life. The relative autonomy of the developing Negro Christian religious gathering made it one of the only areas in the slave’s life where he was relatively free of the white man’s domination.”
In October of the same year, black citizens in Selma, Alabama held mass meetings to consolidate their efforts in the struggle for civil rights. True to Jones’s observations, these gatherings took place in churches. At one meeting they were led in song by a high school girl by the name of Betty Fikes. The local sheriff, Jim Clark, headed up a posse that awaited the congregation outside the church.” Kevin Le Gendre
liner notes from ‘Songs of protest: People Get Ready!’ Warner 2004.

HOPE not hate June 10, 2009

http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/

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