The Orkney OotWae Racism campaigning group will be remembering Christopher Alder on Wednesday 8th of July at 6pm in their weekly doorstep protest
Orkney Remembers Christopher Alder #BlackLivesMatter
Louise’s Story: A Mixed Race Child Growing Up in the UK
“I grew up in a small town in Lincolnshire which was and still is predominantly White. I went to school in that town and was the only person in the school that was not White (and this includes all the staff at the school).”
Breonna Taylor Remembered in Orkney #BlackLivesMatter Protest
Orcadians continued their successful doorstep protests as part of the Black Lives Matter campaign on Wednesday 1st of July.
Another Country
“What’s really annoying them is not that Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to be independent: it’s that she acts as though it already is.”
Diversity, Racism and Inclusion in the Agriculture Sector
“Many people feel you have to conform to a stereotype in order to fit into agriculture, this really isn’t true.” Matt Naylor
Breonna Taylor: #BLM Protest in Orkney
Today, Wednesday, 1st of July at 6pm, Orcadians will again be taking part in a door step protest for the Black Lives Matter campaign. The focus for this event will be Breonna Taylor.
Orkney and the West African connection
“West Africa was the source of the enslaved people who were trafficked across the Atlantic to provide the labour on the plantations of the Americas and the West Indies.”
Orkney Oot Wae Racism Doorstep Protest
“The dead cannot cry out for justice, but it is the duty of the living to do so for them. “
Orkney and Slavery–‘I have at present 36 negroes, besides stock…’
“There were a number of ‘enterprising Orcadian planters, and, of course, slave-holders in the West Indies.’”
Orkney Stands Wae Sheku Bayoh #BlackLivesMatter
Orcadians will be taking the knee again today, Wednesday 24th of June at 6pm with their doorstep campaign in support of Black Lives Matter.
