Podcast appearances and mentions of amal azzudin

The Secret Policeman’s Tour – Edinburgh Playhouse 2019 Hosted by Deborah Frances-White Recorded 24 August 2019 00:00   Intro 01:01   Deborah Frances-White 09:07   Nish Kumar 15:15   Hollie McNish 25:58   Rachel Parris 32:34   Amal Azzudin 41:56   Larry Dean 49:19   The Four Yorkshire Women 58:14   Steve Ali 1:08:35           Climate Change Panel 1:21:07           Deborah Frances-White 1:27:11           Rachel Parris and Grace Petrie 1:33:10           Outro Next stop on the tour – Manchester Palace Theatre on 3 December 2019. Get your tickets here. https://www.atgtickets.com/venues/palace-theatre-manchester   Get involved… If you would like to become part of the movement and join Amnesty International please visit http://amnesty.org.uk To get involved with Truth To Power Hour follow http://twitter.com/Amnestyuk and get ready to take action at 3pm every Friday If you would like to donate to help protect human rights around the world it’s http://amnesty.org.uk/donate Reuniting Refugee Families Now is the time for our Home Secretary to listen and seize the opportunity to make a lasting difference to the lives of refugees in the UK. Children need their parents. By signing Amnesty’s petition, you can urge the Home Secretary to change the rules and reunite more refugee families in the UK. TEXT: TOGETHER + YOUR NAME to 70505 Please note Amnesty International will also call you about ways to support their work, including fundraising. Text NOCALL to 70505 to opt out. See http://amnesty.org.uk/smsterms  

A few episodes ago we spoke to Amal Azzudin, one of the Glasgow girls. She recommended speaking to ”the legend “ Mr Girvan featured in the Glasgow Girls story. A teacher in Drumchapel High at the time a large number of refugee and asylum seekers and their children arrived in Glasgow. He talks about the challenges the teachers and school faced at the time, the unexpected consequences on the communities of Scotstoun and Drumchapel and the continuing challenges faced in communities across the UK.

Check out Amal's Bio and recommended resources here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/alumni/welcomehome/soundtracks/amalazzudin/ Amal Azzudin is a Human Rights campaigner and Social Justice Activist now working for the Mental Health Foundation and as an ambassador for the Scottish Refugee Council. Amal's passion for human rights and social justice began when she rose to fame as one of the Glasgow Girls in 2005 after campaigning against dawn raids, and the detention and deportation of asylum seekers in Glasgow.  What's your Soundtrack? We ask Fatemeh, Student Support Officer at the SRC!  Listen out for: Amal's Mum making a milestone phonecall, an interesting way to pay for the bus and what happened to Kez's sleeve on the way to the interview.  Sound Tracks is supported by The Network - UofG's exclusive online community for students, graduates and staff. Join at bit.ly/TheUofGNetwork

On 26 March 2015 the Mental Health Foundation staged The Dust of Everyday Life, a conference at the CCA in Glasgow designed to ask challenging questions about the relationship between mental health and the arts. The findings will help to shape future editions of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, as we prepare for our tenth programme in 2016. This is a recording of the opening session, in which we marked the tenth anniversary of the Glasgow Girls campaign by looking back at how a group of Drumchapel schoolgirls helped transform perceptions of a stigmatised community, and asking what other campaigners, and storytellers, can learn from them. The panel consisted of Amal Azzudin (one of the Glasgow Girls, now working for the Mental Health Foundation), Cora Bissett(creator of Glasgow Girls the musical), Brian Welsh (director of Glasgow Girls the TV drama) and Lindsay Hill (director of the Glasgow Girls documentary). The session was chaired by Joyce McMillan (theatre critic and cultural commentator, the Scotsman).