Britain On Trial featured on Groovalicious show Peoples FM 104.5 FM

Interview with Sai Murai by Our Man Flint on Groovalicious show Peoples FM 104.5 FM, broadcast Thursday 20 October 2011. Discussing forthcoming event BRITAIN ON TRIAL: Young Voices Speak Out! https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=232473120135819 1-Day Creative Workshop and performance/ film screening Leeds Young Authors// Shake! Young Voices in Arts, Media, Race & Power// University of Leeds MA in Activism & Social Change // Leeds Bi-Centenary Transformation Project 11.30 - 7pm Sat 29th October @ The Carriageworks, Leeds Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2011 As the re-trial for justice for Stephen Lawrence begins, we ask "where are we now" through a day of workshops and an evening performance to expose Britain's injustices. Concerned about how young people are being treated? Get the feeling that justice is becoming more and more hard to find? That institutional racism is alive and kicking the next generation? Deaths in police custody. Increased surveillance. Fortress Britain. Cuts in education. Protests, 'riots' and looting... Young people from Leeds Young Authors and Shake! alongside community activists, academics, and artists ask what does the present and future hold? Participate in the discussion. Take part in creative workshops to find another way. Celebrate the struggle against injustice with two landmark films. Admission is FREE but email [email protected] for a place Britain on Trial: Saturday 29th October 11.30am Registration and LUNCH (free) 12.30 THE CHARGE, welcome by Esther Stanford-Xosei Mini-lectures by young people and activists/academics on > Racism, young people and the police > Consumer Capitalism, advertising, and young people; Media portrayal of youth > History of displacement; contemporary refugee/asylum seeker realities Followed by discussion 2.30pm BREAK & refreshments 3.00pm THE TESTIMONY Creative workshops based on morning's discussions i) Drama/Movement workshop with Khadijah Ibrahiim ii) Poetry/spoken work/creative writing workshop with Simon Murray iii) Subverting media images with Jane Trowell 4.30pm BREAK & refreshments 5.00pm - 7pm THE VERDICT - bringing it all together Share work done in creative workshops; spoken-word showcase and a rare chance to see short films 'Blood ah Go Run' (1982) commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the original Black Peoples Day of Action, and 'Step Forward Youth' (1977) with Leeds Black Film Club http://britainontrial.wordpress.com/ http://voicesthatshake.blogspot.com/p/about.html http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/festival-events/2011sc/speak-out.aspx