After 3 years of constant planning, strategizing and lobbying through assignment coordinators, Eric Huntley and Sukant Chandan, along with many other members of the network, saw the successful launch of the Jessica Huntley Community Garden on Monday, May 1, 2023 in what participants called a “beautiful and fitting tribute” to the many legacies and popular works of Jessica and Eric Huntley and their political network, social and cultural in general. More than a hundred participants from all generations, from toddlers in their arms to toddlers, young people, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, all contributed and each had a direct role to play in the event. The Huntley Garden Project is a radical grassroots Black Power socialist project that sees a relative flowering of young people getting involved on a number of occasions. related to the fundamental histories of blacks, those who still bring those traditions in their old years, and the concrete serves the popular and educational tasks of the Malcolm X Movement and the allied organizations and networks that are giving leadership in Britain.
At 2 pm. the skies opened up with a decent amount of precipitation, climate change is drying our country with increasing water scarcity, so the precipitation was welcome in a way, but it would also be great to have some sun for the lawn opening to via St. James Church in Leeland Terrace. At 3 pm. the clouds cleared and the sun shone at the best moment. People gathered in a crowd of up to 70 participants to carry out the first planting at the site in a collective planting activity in which Eric Huntley concluded by planting two vines that will grow towards each other and form a united vine (a metaphor for Jessica and Eric Huntley). People of all ages planted: roses, nasturtiums, marigolds, daffodils and snowdrop bulbs, sunflowers, beans, currants and many other bulbs, cuttings and seeds were planted. The collective planting on the net lawn was a vital spectacle at the net, bringing together grassroots veterans with other youngsters in center stage taking duty for a public area to host our own International Day of the Working Classes on 1 of May, our own popular day. spring activity. This May Day event will continue to take place one and both years as one of Britain’s major May Day events.
Eric Huntley’s feet firmly nailed the compost into the ground, connecting the soil firmly to the roots of the two vine plants. We won a one tonne bag of loose manure courtesy of Jan Anderson of Ealing Council and Resident Engagement Officer, Kofi Nyamah, was also provided by Ealing Council. The site was kindly prepared through one of our network allocation partners, Paul, our neighbour on Coldershaw Road, and with that of his landscaping company Stanton Landscapes.
Eric thought we deserved to do a rite of passage in the pan-Africanist colors of red, green and gold led by the young people present. On a day of many metaphors, Eric and I held the hands of the youth with the slightly blunt scissors guiding the procedure until the ribbons were cut. It was a glorious moment of intergenerational cooperation where the teams are not the most productive and conceptual, but it is the unity through the solution of demanding situations that makes the final results much more coherent and meaningful. The full day saw kids as young as toddlers, and teams of all ages have a tangible role to play in the launch event that reflects how we design events to make sure all ages of attendees feel truly involved and contribute to the success of the initiative. When Professor Gus John walked towards our planting activity, he was greeted with a round of applause. in schooling and the police. Eric said a few words to officially open the net lawn and at 3:30 p. m. we entered SET’s art assignment area a few meters down the main street.
Participants in this segment of the event were around 60-70% of the Huntleys’ circle of family and comrades, and the rest were participants from all over the country (a large contingent came from Oxford, many thanks to Oxford MXM and the Oxford community. Action) and many locals of all ages.
I moderated the occasion by introducing the short speech segment explaining to the packed space that the launch of Huntley Garden is the result of 3 years of planning. Having moved to West Ealing, my final years of school number one in 1991 (the year the Walter Rodney Bookshop in Chigwell Place closed), mine and subsequent generations in the West Ealing domain had no observable evidence of Huntleys’ prolific and pioneering paintings in W13, and no organisation or task directly similar to Huntleys’ paintings to engage in.
After launching the Malcolm X Movement (MXM) in 2014/2015 with a first national excursion and festival, we partly modeled our events on the black and radical e-book fairs that started in 1982 until the early 1990s, only the MXM added a culture. / Audio formula music segment for this model. In 2011, I attended Huntley’s event at the V
At the time of the first lockdown around the covid pandemic in 2020, village citizens and I were concerned about grassroots network food development projects in Lambeth villages and broader black-led radical grassroots organisations in housing estates as young black men took the lead in this turbulent summer of resistance around horrific police murder. George Floyd; black resistance to tear down colonial symbols in England; Black youth in cities are resisting an increase in police harassment and brutality in the face of insurrection police raids on their properties and self-defence clashes during BLM protests with violent police forces and organised far-right in Whitehall, Parliament Square and Trafalgar Squares. culminating in the historic victory against the far right on June 13.
After speaking with Eric in early 2021 or late 2020, we agreed that Leeland Terrace would be a smart location for a net lawn in Jessica’s honor. Eric also looked for the small concrete plaza on the pedestrian segment of St James’ Ave at 105 The Broadway will be used as a venue for network events. In February 2021, I emailed our local MP Rupa Haq with the network turf concept. from the beginning. Rupa contacted Ealing Council to facilitate access to the space, and after steady momentum and mild pressure: the concept blossomed and became a reality on 1 May 2023.
After my presentation, Eric Huntley was one of two special guest speakers. Eric has made a glorious contribution, in his style, on the one hand, making sure that the right type and full ancient contexts are conveyed, as well as his delicate and poetic style. Touches; appointment:
“It’s no coincidence that the area selected for the lawn is contrary to the bookshop where much of his business was located, adding Sainsburys. “They were boycotting the products because of their apartheid policy and placing the basket on the counter. Keep the queue in the process.
“The corridor of St James’s Church was reserved for the social gatherings in which she participated, adding one of the first meetings that opened the national crusade to publicize how police have used the SUS Act to criminalize black youth.
“Jessica organized a karate club in the parish hall, under the tutelage of Ferris and Hamzah, which temporarily attracted young and old and far away.
“Their specific fear is the education of our young people and the practice of throwing them into schools for the ‘subnormal’ from an educational point of view.
“Leading her to become one of the founders of the additional schools movement, as well as in teaching. The Peter Moses School was held at Ealing Technical College, St Mary’s Road. She also taught in the Caribbean Parents Group organized through Edna and Willis Wilkie. She has been a board member of the Southall-based Inquilab Housing Association. She had other young people in mind, which led her to organize a weekend convention in Acton, entitled “Other Young People Communicate with Other Youth” with the older generation. acting as facilitators.
“The opening of the Bookstore in 1974 brought new perspectives. The post may have been made in Timbuktu, but she, what I would call, a user of the village. AN ACTOR.
“Ealing in the 70s was a ‘desert’ waiting for someone like her to explore. People came to the Bookstore and asked about jobs, housing, recent news from their other homelands, to complain about the habit of the police. She knew which lawyers to recommend It’s also almost “a counseling center. “
So, to motivate us and give us the determination to serve the grassroots in the future.
MP Rupa Haq also spoke at the launch event, and the participating components warmly welcomed her for the Huntley Garden assignment. Our friend and netpainting component, Assiya, from Afghan Peace Library, said a few words from Array, she has also been part of assignments with Eric Huntley locally. in schools. Josh from SET’s art homework, who kindly gave us his free area for the event, expressed his at our event. Many thanks to Josh and Assiya for their tough paintings on launch day and thanks also to Ellie from SET for her and the solidarity.
Grace Akuba, local councillor and founder of the local children’s allowance WAPPY, led a glorious poem encouraged by the Huntleys. Local Seven Sisters Councillor Michelle Simmons-Sappho spoke about the importance of black women’s leadership in our grassroots movements, quoting Malcolm X: “If you teach women, you teach the nation. “Nigel Carter, from Oxford Community Action, and Hansib, a veteran editor, among others, gave a brilliant speech that brought to the event a Pan-Africanist political-cultural investigation based in the Caribbean.
We must thank Ken Fero who in the room of United Friends
Professor Gus John, the final element in the speech segment of the occasion, gave a short and well-received lecture on the history of anti-racism in immigration, education and policing. Comrade Jenniah from South London as an artist of “Sense” ended this segment. of the occasion with two combined acapellas that lyrically explored themes of alienation, oppression and demanding situations derived from the colonial and capitalist system.
We served poultry curry, fragrant basmati rice, daal and a raita salad I made at home for everyone, who served and ate while the glorious band True Steel Pan played live from 5:30pm. m. a 6:00 p. m. People expressed their appreciation and appreciation for the delicious food in the pots and pans and food.
From 6 p. m. m. at nine o’clock at night there was the segment of live music and the sound formula of the event. An ensemble consisting of world class tabla player Aref Dervesh (who also grew up in the area), Guyanese heritage and former Guyanese flutist Keith Waithe, brother Tuup on percussion and brother Omowale on djembe. What a jam it was! Waithe leads with his unmistakable Guyanese-inspired taste, bringing the sonic sounds of the rainforest to the rolling, thundering rhythms of tabla, djembe and other percussion. We have to give a big shout out to original Reggae sound formula brother Father Chalky who brought his sound formula (big thanks to Stanton Landscapes in that regard) while original Junglist evil DJ Garvin Dan took the decks. to overwhelm a Garage set and then Jungle with MC Rebel Base combining a back-to-back dynamic from their host Junglist with the reggae flavor of Chalky. The Jamaican culture of Reggae, Ragga, Jungle, Garage and the core Grime sound formula was fully represented at the event! Jah Shaka, Skibba D, MC Fats, who recently passed away, earned honor and respect. It was a fitting celebratory end to a glorious and vital day of history, the first step and also a further step in a long adventure and the intertwining stories of those who, like Jessica Huntley, are committed to the center and soul to bring relief, resistance and development. representation directed to the base liberation.
As we look to the future, we are engaging more and more local citizens in genuine culture at the Huntley Garden site, and last night the next public event of Huntley Garden’s assignment of an outdoor summer festival-type event at Place was already reported. Our proverbial garden gates are open.
In addition, for this event, Malcolm X’s motion is imperative for the progression of grassroots motions led by radical blacks in Oxford communities, as MXM will offer 4 sessions with top students from schools and universities. In addition, MXM organized a “Black Power Teach-Out” on a network lawn. The coaching involved 17 young participants aged 16 to 20 in the collective preparation and cooking of pizzas in a wood-fired oven for outdoor pizzas, herbs harvested from the network’s own lawn, followed through two workshops on anti-colonial histories of West Africa and Malcolm X.
This followed through to an event where some of those youngsters chaired and hosted another MXM event on the historic black racing chic network in Oxford on the council estate of Blackviard Leys. In this event, Professor Gus John re-engaged a room of almost one hundred people in his leadership against racism in schools and police for six decades, the event saw a further 20 new entrants running from the base to Oxford coordinated to through the MXM. . The power of the radical left in Britain has been waning for decades, a process that appears to be accelerating through the pandemic and related lockdowns. As the official “BLM” has been dormant for years, there are new, younger generations of beat-up teens and other twenty-year-olds who have never noticed what a Black Power socialist resistance looks like in their generation. MXM, with its modest means but effective and effective methods and styles of operation, engages those new generations with a developing momentum that leads to the emergence of many concepts to satisfy the direct desires of our communities and organize a consciousness that feeds another reinforcement. of the capacities of the fight of the elegance in the cities of maximum elegance in progress oppressed.