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The Windrush generation courtesy the Windrush Foundation
The London-based sculptor Thomas Price is among four artists shortlisted to create a new monument at Waterloo Station in London honouring the Windrush generation of workers who came to the UK from the Caribbean between 1948 and 1971.
All four artists shortlisted including Basil Watson, Jeannette Ehlers and Valda Jackson are of Caribbean descent. Ehlers, who is of Danish Trinidadian heritage, co-created the vast sculpture
I Am Queen Mary (2018) with La Vaughn Belle which is located on the waterfront in Copenhagen. Ehlers responded on Instagram to the announcement by saying: “Yes man! More Black presence and manifestations in public space!”
Chiara Wilkinson
Published:
2:00 PM April 6, 2021
Updated:
4:53 PM April 6, 2021
Climate campaigners gathered at Hackney Town Hall to call on the council to divest from fossil fuels.
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Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners rallied outside Hackney Town Hall against council investment in fossil fuel companies.
The protest held on April 1 comes as a response to a report published in February by Divest Hackney about council investments in fossil fuels.
This was despite the authority s climate emergency declaration in 2019, which set out measures to deliver net zero emissions across its functions by 2040.
According to the report, Hackney Council has almost £35m invested in coal, oil and gas companies including BP, Shell, BHP and ExxonMobile, through its management of the Hackney Council Pension Fund.
Readers letters
Government is planning to scrap the Union Learning Fund
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Campaign to save training fund before it is scrapped
Paddy Lillis, Usdaw, general secretary, writes:
Let’s stop the government scrapping the Union Learning Fund in England at the end of March.
This unique scheme provides lifelong learning in many local workplaces, bringing together employers, education providers and trade unions to give workers a second chance at learning by contributing time, money and resources.
Learning and reskilling will be core to helping us recover from the impact of Covid-19 and dealing with the changing world of work because of automation.
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