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Live Policy 2015-18 Live policy 2015-18 Contents Contents ................................................................................................................................... 2 Policy Passed At Black Students Conference 2015 .............................................................................. 4 Black Representation .................................................................................................................. 4 BSC_BR_15101: Creative Arts Be Given Black Hearts ................................................................... 4 BSC_BR_15102: Charity Commission .......................................................................................... 4 BSC_BR_15103: Defending Autonomous Liberation Spaces ........................................................... 5 BSC_BR_15104: Black Unemployment and Underemployment ....................................................... 6 BSC_BR_15105: Defending Youth Services .................................................................................. 7 BSC_BR_15106: Strengthening Black Representation: Black Students’ Campaigns on Every Campus . 7 BSC_BR_15107: Black Students demand Human Rights! ............................................................... 8 International Peace and Justice .................................................................................................... 9 BSC_PJ_15201: Academic Solidarity with Palestine ....................................................................... 9 BSC_PJ_15202: International Peace and Justice ........................................................................... 9 Anti-Racism ............................................................................................................................. 10 BSC_AR_15301: Counter-Terrorism and Security Act .................................................................. 10 BSC_AR_15302: Black Lives Matter .......................................................................................... 11 BSC_AR_15303: Defending the Right to Protest and Diverse Political Expression ............................ 12 BSC_AR_15304: Intersectionality: At the Heart of Liberation ....................................................... 13 BSC_AR_15305: Xenophobia and Fascism ................................................................................. 13 BSC_AR_15306: Racist Visa Regulation and Asylum Seekers ....................................................... 14 Equality In Education ................................................................................................................ 15 BSC_EE_15401: Equality in Education – For a Free and Liberated Education System ...................... 15 BSC_EE_15403: Offer Asylum Seekers a Chance to Study ........................................................... 16 BSC_EE_15404: Only We Can Write and Teach Our Own History .................................................. 16 Policy Passed at Black Students Conference 2016 ............................................................................ 17 Anti-Racism ............................................................................................................................. 17 Motion 303: Anti Racism Anti Facism .......................................................................................... 17 Motion 301: Faith in Unity! ........................................................................................................ 19 Motion 302: Gendered Islamophobia ......................................................................................... 20 Motion 304: Prisons are Obsolete! Abolish Them Now! .................................................................. 21 Motion 305: Expanding the Campaign Against Prevent in FE .......................................................... 22 Motion 306: Housing is a Black Problem ...................................................................................... 23 Black Representation ................................................................................................................ 24 Motion 404: Defending Black Representation ............................................................................. 24 Motion 401: Disabled Black Students: Understanding the intersect and making activist accessible .... 25 Motion 402: Black Students Campaign Loves SU’s ...................................................................... 26 Motion 403: #BlackGradsMatter ............................................................................................... 28 Motion 405: The Fair Way ....................................................................................................... 28 Motion 406: More Representation for Black Women & Black Trans People on Panel Events ............... 29 Motion 407: Black is not a cis monolith ..................................................................................... 29 Equality in Education ................................................................................................................ 30 Motion 204: Equality in Education ............................................................................................ 30 Motion 201: FE and HE Link up! ............................................................................................... 31 Motion 202: Free Education ..................................................................................................... 32 Motion 203: Higher Education White Paper – Opposing the marketisation of our education .............. 33 Motion 205: Bring Back the One-Year Post Study Visa for International Students ........................... 33 Motion 206: Area Reviews ....................................................................................................... 34 International Peace and Justice .................................................................................................. 35 Motion 501: Defending Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions ............................................................. 35 Motion 502: International Peace and Justice .............................................................................. 36 Motion 503: A Strong, Successful Response To Deportation Cases ................................................ 37 Motion 504: Joining the fight against HIV in Black Communities ................................................... 37 Motion 505: Stand by Survivors ............................................................................................... 38 Policy Passed at BSC 2017 Black representation ................................................................................................................. 40 Motion 101: Defending and strengthening the representation of students of African, Arab, Asian and Caribbean heritage ................................................................................................................... 40 Motion 103: Childcare at Conferences ......................................................................................... 41 Anti Racism ............................................................................................................................. 41 Motion 201: Uniting against racism ............................................................................................ 42 Motion 203: A hard Brexit will increase racism, damage education and destroy jobs ......................... 43 Motion 204: Supporting Black Students Reporting Racism ............................................................. 43 Motion 205: In support of mental health services for Black students ............................................... 44 Motion 206: No to Stop and Search and Racial Profiling ................................................................ 44 International Peace and Justice .................................................................................................. 45 Motion 301: International peace and justice – no to Trump, wars, poverty and climate change .......... 45 Motion 302: Abolish African Debt ............................................................................................... 46 Motion 303: Condemn Predatory Peacekeepers ............................................................................ 46 Motion 304: BDS...................................................................................................................... 47 Rules Revision ......................................................................................................................... 47 Motion 401: Changing the name of our campaign: stepping forward together .................................. 47 Equality in Education ................................................................................................................ 49 Motion 501: Fighting austerity, cuts and poverty.......................................................................... 49 Policy lapse ............................................................................................................................. 50 BSC_EE_14403: Black Women and Education ............................................................................ 50 Policy Passed At Black Students Conference 2015 Black Representation BSC_BR_15101: Creative Arts Be Given Black Hearts Conference Believes: 1. Every day we watch our TVs and we see just white people being represented on our stages and screens. 2. With talks of making society more diverse and represented in all angles, why then do
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