BAME LABOUR IN ACTION 2018-2019

NEW WEBSITE/SOCIAL MEDIA Ahmad Shahzad OBE; Cllr Muhammed Butt; Shadow Secretary of State for BAME Labour is delighted to announce Women and Equalities, that we have a new website! Please MP; MP; Tanmanjeet Singh visit www.bamelabour.org for Dhesi MP; Shadow Minister (Equalities information, to sign up for updates and Office) (Women and Equalities), Naz to join our organisation. Shah MP; former MP and BAME NEC We also have a new Facebook page. Representative, Keith Vaz; Labour NEC Please like/follow us at @BAMELabour. Chair, Wendy Nichols; and NEC member and GMB Policy Officer, Sarah For those who like , follow us at Owen. @LabourBAME.

BAME LABOUR CONFERENCE 2018

BAME Labour was privileged to have Cécile Kashetu Kyenge MEP, Italy’s First

Black Cabinet Minister, as the Keynote BAME Labour hosted its 2018 Speaker. Conference at Brent Civic Centre, The buffet lunch was delicious and Wembley. Chair Muhammad Afzal, many exciting and insightful workshops Secretary Susan Matthews and Vice were conducted (see below). A huge Chair June Nelson, highlighted BAME thank you goes out to our wonderful Labour’s significant contributions to the speakers, panellists, chairs and helpers, Democracy Review. as well as our attendees, who all Conference speakers included Cllr contributed to a fantastic event!

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Unfortunately, our 2019 BAME Posters and letters addressed to the Conference had to be postponed due to Prime Minister were signed by scores of the Snap General Election. However, people, members and MPs. our new date will be announced shortly.

LABOUR PARTY WOMEN’S CONFERENCE 2019

Vice Chair June Nelson and NPF Representative Nadine Grandison-Mills represented BAME Labour at the In line with the campaign, BAME Labour Women’s Conference in Telford. delegate Nadine Grandison-Mills spoke Both made impassioned speeches on in the debate, focussing on how violence against women. a No-Deal Brexit would adversely impact on BAME Communities. LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE 2019

BAME Labour Secretary, Susan Mathews, spoke on behalf of Unite on BAME Labour had a strong presence at BAME Representation in Selections, to the 2019 Labour Conference. We move the BAME electoral college rule launched the campaign ‘Stop this Brexit change to 50/50 between BAME Shambles – Make BAME Voices heard members and affiliated trade unions. on Brexit: Oppose a No-Deal Brexit’. BAME Labour also hosted two fringe events at the Brighton Conference (see below).

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WORKSHOPS & EVENTS (Treasury) Clive Lewis MP and Cecile Wright.)

• 01-12-2018 – How to set up a CLP BAME/Ethnic Minorities Forum • 01-12-218 – Health (Chair: Cllr Dr (Chair: Nadine Grandison-Mills; Neeraj Patil (BAME EC); Panellists: Panellists: Brian Channer, Cllr Nanda Fiona Onasanya (former MP), Cllr Manley-Browne and Cllr Kim Ketan Sheth and Judy Richard.) Powell.)

• 01-12-2018 – Local Government • 01-12-2018 – Young, Gifted and (Panellists: Bridget Galloway (BAME BAME (Chair: Jen Davis (BAME EC); EC), Claudia Webbe MP and Cllr Panellists: Dr MP, Amina Ali.) Kimberly McIntosh and Siddo Dwyer.)

• 23-09-2019 – How will Brexit

impact on BAME communities? 01-12-2018 – Reaching out to the (Chair: Cllr June Nelson (Vice Chair); Diaspora (Chair: Joe Ukemenam (BAME Panellists: Cllr Elizabeth Baptiste EC); Panellists: Shadow Minister (Treasurer) and Gloria Mills (BAME

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EC); as well as guest speaker LEADERSHIP/DEPUTY Shadow Chancellor of the LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS Exchequer, John McDonnell MP.) BAME Labour has nominated Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, MP, for leader of the Labour Party, as well as Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities, Dawn Butler MP, for Deputy. We wish them and all other

candidates the best of luck with their • 24-09-2019 – How to set up a CLP leadership campaigns! BAME/Ethnic Minorities Forum (Chair: Nadine Grandison-Mills (NPF TRIBUTE TO KEITH VAZ MP Representative); Panellists: Janet Last but not least, we would like to Daby MP, Cllr Nanda Manley- thank the former MP, Keith Vaz, for the Browne and Cllr Kim Powell.) incredible work he has done NATIONAL POLICY FORUM representing BAME Labour on the Party’s NEC. We wish him every future Our NPF Representatives have success! attended meetings. Since the start of the NPF term, reps have responded to numerous submissions, as well as making their own on:

• Tackling Serious Youth Violence • Stop and Search . • Windrush BAME Labour’s nominee, Jennifer • Domestic Abuse Davis, has withdrawn from the contest • Ex-prisoners, Homelessness and Re- due to work related reasons. offending • Immigration Removal Centres We look forward to working with our next NEC Representative. Happy BAME Labour will continue to make campaigning to all candidates! submissions.

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