Building resistance in a time of crisis with Gary Younge

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Writing on the Wall

Gary Younge returns to WoWFEST to highlight how today rights are under attack as never before.

Victoria Gallery & Museum

As Donald Trump violates both human rights and democratic norms and fascism has become a mainstream ideology in Europe again, the moment to mount progressive, collective resistance has never been more urgent. From the weekend to contraception, universal suffrage to maternity leave everything working people have in this country they have fought for. Gary Younge argues that today those rights are under attack as never before and to keep them we will have to draw on our radical traditions and new alliances.

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian, he has written six books, most recently Dispatches From the Diaspora. Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism and the 2025 Robert. B. Silvers Prize for Journalism, he has written for the New York Review of Books, Granta, GQ and The New Statesman, among others, and made radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. His fifth book, Another Day in the Death of America, won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize from Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation.

Emy Onuora holds an MA in Ethnic Studies and Race Relations from the University of Liverpool and has lectured extensively on race and sport in higher education. He was the co-editor of What’s the Score, a Merseyside-based football fanzine, and is the author of Pitch Black: The History of Black British Footballers. Emy currently serves as the Race Equality Project Manager at the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority.

Venue: Victoria Gallery, Ashton St, Liverpool L69 3DRDate and Time: Friday 16th May, 7pmTickets: £7

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