UK: Community groups prepare to counter bicentenary gov't propaganda

Community Groups met last Friday (July 7) to discuss strategies to counter what is perceived as government ‘propaganda’ plans for the 2007 Bicentenary to 'dishonour' the memory of African people who fought for their freedom and resisted enslavement. To many of the organisations present at the forum with, held at Kingston University, the name itself is offensive and seeks to present Africans as mere victims in what the establishment refers to innocently as the ‘slave trade.’