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🧵 As we race towards the end of a really tough year I thought I’d do a thread for the campaigners - the people who believe we can organise our way past any problem. We’re normally right and that’s both our superpower and our greatest weakness. This year we hit a wall. Hard.
I don’t think the activist community gave ourselves a whole heap of time to process, we just got to work. I love us for it, but if you’re trying to carve out some time to think about the year and campaigns ahead here are some resources and reflections in the hope they help.
This is one of the best bits of analysis I read all year, about what changemakers need to learn about power. If you’re in organising, philanthropy, politics, advocacy or think tanks I think you’ll like it a lot. niskanencenter.org/what-democrats…
This is important. On 22nd May, Prof Kevin Fenton of Public Health England described his ethnic disparities review in an online webinar (1000+ took part).
He is clearly describing a v.different - much broader - report to the one which was published today
ladders4action.org/news-blogs-vid…
He is clearly describing a v.different - much broader - report to the one which was published today
ladders4action.org/news-blogs-vid…
ht to @AddyAdelaine whose thread explains this & also links to a blog with a partial transcript
The webinar is on YouTube: Professor Fenton at 14m 30s
The webinar is on YouTube: Professor Fenton at 14m 30s
'Like so many of you, I wanted to go beyond the data' says Professor Fenton, on 22nd May 2020, describing an extensive community stakeholder engagement exercise, which he described "the second component of the review".
Today's report is just the data [the first component]
Today's report is just the data [the first component]
193 health workers have died with Covid-19. 130 have been from ethnic minority backgrounds - according to BBC analysis, ahead of Public Health England ethnic disparities review, due next week.
NHS workforce data by ethnicity across different roles is available here ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-…
My recent essay on race equality and Covid-19 for the #OurOtherNationalDebt report
ourothernationaldebt.com/race
ourothernationaldebt.com/race
