Indian Workers' Association
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2016
- 60 Years of Struggles and Achievements
The IWA was nationally acclaimed for its campaigns to protect the rights of the early immigrant workers setting in the UK in the 50s and 60s and its tireless work against discrimination and injustice. It acted as a training nursery for a generation of Asian and Black community leaders, inspiring many into mainstream local and national politics. At its peak IWA had membership of over 20,000 paid members in the 1970s and 1980s, ran a self financed national welfare & advice service supporting many thousands of people annually. In the 1960s an IWA member became the first elected Asian Councillor in Ealing and by 1994 its President had become the first Asian MP for Ealing/Southall Constituency inspiring generations of Asians into mainstream institutions and politics.
Our film through interviews and recordings gives survivors who founded or were active in the IWA and their families an opportunity to tell their own stories about the heritage of the IWA and Southall community's contributions to the wider Asian and Panjabi communities in the UK and to preserve this history for future generations. It documents and captures the lived experiences and memories of older people who came as immigrants in the 1950s and 1960s, who faced discrimination, organised themselves and supported the establishment of IWA.
Our project involved recorded interviews with survivors who founded or were active in IWA or their families as well as other people from which this documentary film was produced along with a series of 'personal history profiles' of prominent people . It has also produced a booklet and an exhibition on the heritage of IWA which will available for display to community, public bodies, educational institutes and others.
www.iwasouthall.org.uk
www.digital-works.co.uk
They worked very hard to give new generations a better future. But sorry to say they couldn’t work as hard as their parents did.
Long live southall, sym, iwa
My mother came to England in 1946 aged 16 from Ireland. There wasn't any benefits, NHS, housing list, community groups or cushy jobs on the underground. She worked as a cleaner / domestic servant all her life and never considered social housing as an option. There was no overcrowding in Irish houses, it wasn't anything to do with the 'housing list'. She worked or didn't eat, was spat on in the street but never screamed about discimination.
Must admit we think we get it hard nowadays great documentary 👏
You choose to live in Britain. You're colonisers.
Would be nice to hear the other side of the story because it was far from easy for them either.
True
0:38 the grocey shop on the left SMT Fruit and Veg was owned by the family of Samaira Nazir before she was mudered by her family just down the road when she refused to marry her cousin in 2005.
Song da naam ki pehle mint ich?
we still need workers to keep our petrol flowing