 | Jack is artist, curator, writer and civil rights worker interested in the relationship between art and politics. As a community campaigner and civil rights activist, Jack was involved in the anti-Iraq war media campaign, organised the Foot & Mouth Protests against the Ministry of Agriculture, and was the community and politics editor for a British Chinese community website. Currently, Jack has curated a show at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery and the Crypt in St Andrew Holborn, commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the publication of the Macpherson Report into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence. |
Saturday 31 October 2009, 12.30pm Student Union
Activist revival or aimless hyper-activism?
Sunday 1 November 2009, 12.30pm Student Union
From Macpherson to the rise of the BNP: Race Today?
"Just when Kant's formulation that 'the public exercise of reason should be free' had begun to seem so remote and exhausted, the Battle should reinforce one's faith in the enduring worth of dissent and of the free traffic in ideas"
Swapan Chakravorty, professor of english, Jadavpur University
