Communications
Weekly updates 2020/21
We are now sending weekly department updates directly to your University email.
These emails will replace the bulletins on the GSD Skills Moodle and the GSD Principles and Praxis Moodle. View an archive of our 2019/20 communications on the GSD Skills Moodle here.
Coronavirus: Updates and advice
Read our house rules, see a record of communications from the department to current students, and find out how best to contact us.
Anti-racist resources
- 10 Ted talks about racism.
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NUS Black Students’ Campaign is compiling a twitter thread including information about black history, protest information, and self-care.
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An article on the often-forgotten role of black workers and black struggles at the center of British trade union campaigns.
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A list of books on racial justice available in the University of Warwick Library.
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Become familiar with and support important student activist groups at Warwick, particularly the Warwick Anti-Racism Society, Warwick Anti-Sexism Society (WASS) and Warwick Occupy. You can read WASS's powerful statement here.
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Write to your MPs to demand the UK stop selling teargas and rubber bullets to the US police forces, to demand that the UK government responds to the report confirming that BAME people are more at risk of dying from COVID-19 and to call for continued investigation into the death of Belly Mujinga, a railway ticket clerk who was spat on while working and who subsequently died from COVID-19.
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Join local organisations working to end racist policies, such as the hostile environment and PREVENT.
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You may want to think about raising money for and donating to these Black-led UK organisations working for racial justice.
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The Anti-Racist Educator: An initiative by students, teachers, and parents.
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The Black Curriculum: A social enterprise founded by young people in 2019 to address the lack of Black British in the UK Curriculum. Their free learning resources include 12 topics across Art History, Migration, Politics, and Land and Environment