Journey to Justice – Launch

Journey to Justice presents The Journey to Justice (JtoJ) Launch A night of music dance poetry and film celebrating those working for social justice. The event will launch Journey to Justice a new organisation dedicated to inspiring people to take action for social justice by learning from human rights struggles. We are a group of educators youth community human rights and faith organisations artists film makers lawyers musicians historians curators and trade unionists. Our patrons areLord Herman Ouseley former Chair of the Commission of Racial Equality and founder of Kick It Out – an anti-racist football project. Paul Stephenson OBE community worker civil rights activist and leader of the successful 1963 Bristol Bus Boycott against the colour bar. The main speaker will be Leyla Hussein co-founder of Daughters of Eve and campaigner against gender based violence. Compered by Pauline Pearce Hackney Heroine performances include the David Idowu Choir (formed in memory of David who was a 15 year old victim of knife crime); Tayo Aluko ( Call Mr Robeson ); Streetz Ahead dance; UCLU Jazz Society; Zena Edwards poet and singer; Jo Clarke singing Nina Simone and Wayne Marshall singing classic civil rights anthems. The night will promote Journey to Justice’s first project: a travelling exhibition about the US civil rights movement and its impact which will tour UK communities starting in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sheffield. As it tours the exhibition will connect with local UK histories of campaigns for change. June 21st is the 50th anniversary of the murder of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi and this launch is dedicated in part to their memory. The launch event will conclude with a tribute to the late great Pete Seeger a king of social protest music . Doors open at 7pm Light refreshments will be served in the interval. Tickets £10 With thanks to our funders and supporters. The Golsoncott Foundation; the Lipman-Miliband Trust; the RSA Fellowship Fund Sheppard | Co and CIVA the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action. ‘ Journey to Justice enables us to engage with our own rich history of grass-roots movements that have led to massive social changes towards equality. Using the US civil rights movement it frames the long journey we have travelled to recognising universal human rights. This exhibition will give people a real chance to engage with some of the key milestones in history and will empower a generation ’. (The British Humanist Association) The launch coincides with Journey to Justice’s crowd funding campaign which aims to raise £20000 towards creating and building their travelling exhibition. See: www.buzzbnk.org/journeytojustice Any questions: Tel. 07711199198 info@journeytojustice.org.uk