EVENT

Kelso Cochrane memorial event

16 May 2009

Fifty years after the murder of Kelso Cochrane, a graveside tribute followed by a march and showing of IRR film 'From you were black, you were out'.

Saturday 16 May 2009
12pm at Kensal Green Cemetery, Ladbroke Grove, London W10 (meet at graveside and march to Portobello Green), then
3pm at Inn on the Green, 3-5 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL (film showing presented by director Colin Prescod)

Speakers and performers include:

Cllr Duwayne Brooks
Mike Davis - Alliance for Green Socialism
Gerry Gable - Searchlight
Mary Gardiner - Director KCSC
Suresh Grover - Southall Monitoring Group
Cllr Pat Mason - 1958-9 Remembered: 50 Years On Project & Golborne Ward Councillor
The Octavia Foundation - will present their film Grove Roots
Colin Prescod - Film's director and IRR chair
Murad Quereshi - London Assembly Member
Eve Turner - Ealing Trades Council
Jim Radford - Song to Kelso Cochrane
Alexander D Great - Calypso for Kelso: Since Kelso Cochrane Died
David Neita - People's Poet

Organised by the Kelso Cochrane Memorial Project, c/o 42 St. Lawrence Terrace, London W10 5ST. For more information, contact Eddie Adams by phone: 020 8964 9531 or by email: samstjohn2003@yahoo.co.uk. All events are in partnership with the 1958-9 Remembered: 50 Years On Project organised by the Steering Group. For further information email: 1958remembered@mail.org, or phone Isis Amlak on 07941 478 498 or Cllr Pat Mason: 07951 608 165. 'From you were black, you were out' shows community resistance and the emergence of a number of 'Black Power' organisations in 1950s Ladbroke Grove. It is one of four films that chart key moments in Black people's struggles for justice, digitally re-mastered and now available on one DVD, 'Struggles for Black Community', from the IRR (see website below).

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Kelso Cochrane memorial event

16 May 2009

Fifty years after the murder of Kelso Cochrane, a graveside tribute followed by a march and showing of IRR film 'From you were black, you were out'.

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