UK workplaces must start providing tangible support to social justice causes Published:
17 Mar 2021 When it comes to corporate social responsibility, how do we ensure that our workplaces are not fixating on easy wins and are pushing for creating change?
The COVID-19 pandemic that swept around the world in 2020 will mean that it was a year that many of us will want to put behind us. However, what we won’t and shouldn’t leave behind are the conversations had and the movements started about social justice issues.
In the US, we saw the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, after the killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers on 25 May. This led to a series of protests and demonstrations across the world, including here in the UK. The success of the movement in the UK saw the Black Lives Matter UK organisation raise £1.2 million, which it recently began to distribute to 14 black-interest groups.
A memorial commemorating the Battle of Britain was daubed with graffiti during last night s anti-police protests in Westminster.
The letters ACAB - All Cops Are B s - were scrawled above a list honoring the airmen who died in the Second World War battle.
The word racist was also written under Winston Churchill s immortal remarks following the fighting that never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed, by so many, to so few.
The protests were sparked by the murder of Sarah Everard and are being led by a feminist group accused of hijacking her death.
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