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Building Bridges: connecting stories and championing racial justice


Building Bridges, co-ordinated by the Runnymede Trust and LSE, was an opportunity to come together, connect, and champion racial justice

Building Bridges is designed to bring together people working toward racial justice, so that we can share our work and consider ways to support each other in progressing our shared ambitions.

 

 

On Saturday 1st July, we collaborated with the Runnymede Trust to host Building Bridges: connecting stories and championing racial justice, a dynamic and inspiring day of knowledge exchange and collective action. The day was a resounding success, leaving us with budding collaborations, renewed vigour, and practical strategies to fight racial inequalities in the UK and beyond. Representatives from grassroots organisations, academic institutions, and international NGOs hosted a variety of panel discussions and workshop-style sessions focussed on three core themes:

  • The social and economic cost of racial injustice
  • Hostile Environment and migrants’ rights in the time of ‘stopping small boats
  • Reimaging policing and ‘criminal’ justice

Watch the highlights video

 

This event was co-sponsored by LSE Department of Sociology, LSE Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity.

Contributing Organisations 

Race & Health Organisation 

Young Foundation 

Human Rights Watch 

Liberty 

Debt Justice 

Nanny Solidarity Network 

Voice of Domestic Workers 

Just Fair 

University of Leeds 

Netpol 

No More Exlusions 

Mentivity 

Coffee Afrik 

Heads2Gether Housing Cooperative

East European Resource Centre

Black Protest Legal Support 

Hackney Cop Watch 

Howard League for Penal Reform


Programme 

Theme 1: The social and economic cost of racial injustice

  • Falling faster: putting the cost of living crisis in its place (panel discussion)
  • Imaginative practice towards racial health justice (workshop)
  • Exposing the gravity of the racial wealth divide (panel discussion)

Theme 2: Hostile Environment and migrants’ rights in the time of ‘stopping small boats’

  • Unveiling the Forgotten: exploring economic, social, and cultural rights of asylum seekers in the UK (workshop)
  • Remembering Windrush (workshop)
  • Migrant domestic worker rights (panel discussion) 

Theme 3: Reimaging policing and ‘criminal’ justice

  • What the policing of protest means for our communities (panel discussion) 
  • The Baroness Casey Review: where next for the UK's police forces? (panel discussion) 
  • How policing is harming young people (workshop) 

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