New Generation Network
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The New Generation Network is a group and manifesto set up to challenge the current discourse of race relations in the UK. The group's manifesto, Race and faith: a new agenda http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/new_generation_network/2006/11/why_we_need_a_new_discourse_on.html, was published on November 20, 2006 on The Guardian
newspaper's Comment is Free website.
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
newspaper's Comment is Free website.
Initial Signatories
- Sunny HundalSunny HundalSunny Hundal is a British blogger.He was born in London to Sikh parents of Indian origin. He describes himself as a vegetarian and a strong environmentalist. He has a degree in Economics from Brunel University and has written articles for leading British newspapers including The Financial Times...
(writer, commentator) - Ziauddin SardarZiauddin SardarZiauddin Sardar is a London-based scholar, writer and cultural-critic who specialises in Muslim thought, the future of Islam, futures studies and science and cultural relations...
(writer, commentator and broadcaster) - Sunder KatwalaSunder KatwalaSunder Katwala is a British political activist and former general secretary of the Fabian Society. He was previously with The Observer newspaper, as a leader writer and internet editor, and was Research Director of The Foreign Policy Centre think-tank from 1999 to 2001...
(general secretary of the Fabian SocietyFabian SocietyThe Fabian Society is a British socialist movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary, means. It is best known for its initial ground-breaking work beginning late in the 19th century and continuing up to World...
) - Hari Kunzru (writer)
- Yasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-BrownYasmin Alibhai-Brown MBE is a Ugandan-born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Muslim, part-Pakistani...a very responsible person"...
(writer and commentator) - Sukhdev Sandhu (writer and journalist)
- Dr Robert BeckfordRobert BeckfordRobert Beckford is a British academic theologian and a reader in black theology and popular culture at Oxford Brookes University, whose documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4 have caused controversy and debate among the Christian and British religious community.-Biography:Beckford was born...
(lecturer and broadcaster) - Gurpreet Kaur BhattiGurpreet Kaur BhattiGurpreet Kaur Bhatti is a British Sikh writer. She has written extensively for stage, screen and radio.-Life:Bhatti studied modern languages at Bristol University and has worked as a journalist and an actress....
(writer and playwright) - Reem Maghribi (Sharq magazine editor-in-chief)
- Dr Priyamvada Gopal (lecturer at Cambridge University)
- Dave Hill (writer)
- Maya Sikand (barrister)
- Rehna Azim (barrister and writer)
- Tommy Nagra (executive producer, television)
- Farmida Bi (Progressive British MuslimsProgressive British MuslimsProgressive British Muslims is a group of Liberal British Muslims that formed following the London terrorist attacks of July 7, 2005.The organisation was founded and is chaired by Farmida Bi, an expert in Islamic Finance to provide a voice for progressive Muslims who she felt were unrepresented by...
) - Ravi Mattu (journalist, writer)
- Maha Sardar (barrister, writer)
- Rahul Verma (journalist, commentator)
- Arif Naqvi (grassroots charity worker)
- Sara Wajid (writer)
- Sadaf Meehan (journalist)
- Sonia Afroz (grassroots charity worker)
- Rohan JayasekeraRohan Jayasekera (writer)Rohan Asoka Jayasekera is a British journalist, editor, web designer and occasionally controversial activist for free expression and media rights...
(associate editor, Index on CensorshipIndex on CensorshipIndex on Censorship is a campaigning publishing organisation for freedom of expression, which produces an award-winning quarterly magazine of the same name from London. The present chief executive of Index on Censorship, since 2008, is the author, broadcaster and commentator John Kampfner, former...
magazine) - Simon BarrowSimon BarrowSimon Barrow is an ecumenical evangelical who is a co-director of the theological think tank Ekklesia.-External links:**. February 2008....
(co-founder, EkklesiaEkklesia (think tank)Ekklesia is an independent, not-for-profit British think tank which examines the role of religion in public life and advocates transformative theological ideas and solutions. Jonathan Bartley is the founder and co-director....
think-tank) - Catherine Fieschi (acting director, DemosDemos (UK think tank)- History :Demos was founded in 1993 by former Marxism Today editor Martin Jacques, and Geoff Mulgan, who became its first director. It was formed in response to what Mulgan, Jacques and others saw as a crisis in politics in Britain, with voter engagement in decline and political institutions...
) - Gautam MalkaniGautam MalkaniGautam Malkani is a journalist for The Financial Times, and the author of the novel Londonstani. He has worked on the FT's UK news desk in London as well as in the Washington bureau. He is currently the head of the newspaper's Creative Business section....
(author, journalist)