Call Mr. Robeson comes to Wellingborough

Black History Month 2016 and Hate Crime Awareness Week

Wellingborough Afro-Caribbean Association (WACA) 

presents in conjuction with

Northamptonshire Rights and Equality Council (NREC), UNISON, UNITE–the union, National Union of Teacher, Independent Socialists in Wellingborough (ISW), The Big Lottery

Paul Robeson is a world-famous actor, singer and civil rights campaigner. When he gets too radical and outspoken for the establishment's liking, he is branded a traitor to his country, is harassed, and denied opportunities to perform or travel.

This roller-coaster journey through Robeson’s remarkable life highlights how his pioneering and heroic political activism led many to describe him as the forerunner of the civil rights movement. It features some famous songs (including a dramatic rendition of Ol’ Man River), speeches, and a spectacularly defiant testimony to the US Senate House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s.

Friday   October 14th   2016

7.30pm

FREE Caribbean buffet food from 6.00pm

Rock Street Centre Rock Street

Wellingborough NN8 4LW

Tickets:

£6.00 in advance (see below)

£8.00 on the door

           

Disabled access             BSL Signers for the deaf

Advanced bookings: https://callmrrobeson.eventbrite.co.uk

Or tickets can be purchased from WACA and

NREC (cash or cheque – payable to WACA)

Further info: telephone Paul 07872836463

or iswwellingborough@gmail.com

     

SOLIDARITY: A new range of luxury products supporting the people of Greece

“A new range of luxury products supporting 

progressive politics internationally”

“Solidarity not aid or charity”

Superior quality soap from Greece. Hand made using olive, 

coconut, palm and almond oil in five natural fragrances:

Lily, Blackberry, Ocean, Lavender and Vanilla

Produced by the

Galatsi Movement of Resistance and Solidarity

“Movement for the Unemployed”

  

£3.00 per bar

or all five fragrances for £12.00

+ postage and packaging

100% of profits go directly to the Movement of Resistance and Solidarity

“Movement of the Unemployed ” Perno Ampariza, Galatsi, Athens

To order or make inquiries email: 

iswwellingborough@gmail.com

or telephone 07872836463

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Privately educated children earn more than state-educated children with the same grades

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Explaining the data

The figures on earnings for privately-educated children were calculated by the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank and can be viewed here -http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/pr/graduate_earnings_301014.pdf

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There are more disadvantaged children in Britain than in many other advanced economies

A higher proportion of UK children grow up in households with incomes well below the national median, while more young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training

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Explaining the data

These figures are taken from the UNICEF Innocenti Report Card, an annual comparison of living standards for children and young people in advanced economies. The figures are from 2012 (child poverty) and 2013 (young people not in education, training or employment) because these are the figures used in the most recent version of the report. You can read the full report here:http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc12-eng-web.pdf

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Top Universities are dominated by students who went to private school: Barely half of entrants to Oxford University are state educated, compared to 93% of the wider population

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Explaining the data

These figures were taken from the Higher Education Statistics Agency. You can see the full results at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/pis/urg

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There are more low-paid workers in the UK than in other advanced economies

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Explaining the data

This data is taken from the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development database via http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=AV_AN_WAGE. Figures are for 2012 and 2013, and are the most recent available for each country. More detailed figures on UK employment are available from the Office for National Statistics ‘jobs statistics’ at http://ons.gov.uk/ons/taxonomy/index.html?nscl=Job+Statistics#tab-data-tables

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The richest 10% of the population get richer whilst incomes for the poorest 10% plummet

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Explaining the data

Explaining the data: These figures were calculated by the New Economics Foundation (NEF) as part of their ‘Real Britain Index’ - http://www.realbritainindex.org/. NEF calculated a more detailed inflation figure for each decile (group of 10%) of the UK population from richest to poorest, based on their spending habits (for example, the poorest decile spend a higher proportion of their income on food, so are hit harder by food price increases, but are less likely to be affected by changes in the cost of luxury goods). NEF then used these inflation figures to calculate the year-on-year change in the incomes of each decile. Since the data used in this infographic was published, inflation has fallen, giving hope that real incomes of poorer households will rise. But this will also depend on factors such as low pay and cuts to social security. 

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