Manifesto

Below is my manifesto exactly as it was written last year - from which I was elected as a Black and Minority Ethnic Students' Officer (a position now known as the Ethnic Minority Officer). The manifesto is split into 2 parts: one consists of gathered viewpoints, and the other half a method to implement them/deal with.

My Policy:

• To build on last years organisation of Black History Month
• Work with BME related societies on campus and impart more on the interest of BME students
• Work closely with BEMA: to carefully asses the progress on raising awareness of the actual association on campus and move to campaigns/events thereafter
• Encourage the much needed dialogue and debate on campus via various forms
• Study the anonymous marking policy on campus and take the relevant measures for application
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• It is vital we build a strong anti-racist movement on campuses
• The standpoint of Black lecturers amongst us is unnoticed. We need to bring back the reality and understand it in relation to the embedded racist attitudes we carry
• The BME students on campus are largely unnoticed and hence that which affects them put aside. We need to build a strong Black students network, and achieve this by building on work done in last two years
• Africa is beautiful – and the governance is not. The situation of Africa is unspoken of and unnoticed. It is important we bring back such issues on the debating floor
• International Peace and Justice are long over-due, and the toll of civilian death unprecedented. We must not only encourage but establish dialogue and debate on campus: to not only map a way forward after understanding the issue at hand, but also to deal with the ignorance present amongst us – as we saw in the reaction to Archbishop's Sharia-speech.

I will update you very soon on each point.