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Kemi A Akinola
Cook/Councillor/Researcher/Founder of Be Enriched/MD of BPK/Londoner
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Jul 25, 20211 min read
This week your councillor..
It's been a busy and sunny week. I think Summer is here? A rundown on how I have been working for you: Met with council officers and...
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Jul 20, 20212 min read
Healthy Start Vouchers Adjournment
Weds 21st Full Council meeting - I’d like to adjourn the council for 30 seconds to draw attention to food inequality, children’s health...
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Jun 6, 20212 min read
This week your councillor..
The bank holiday meant I actually got to take 1 day off/lost a day so the title of this blog update should really read This fortnight...
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May 22, 20211 min read
This week your councillor..
Last weeks post went down very well with Graveney residents, thanking me for un-shrouding the mystery of #CouncillorLife. It is pretty...
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Apr 15, 20211 min read
How do we fight systemic Racism in the UK?
I took part in this lively discussion with OpenDemocracy just after the very unbalanced and biased Race report was published. Definitely...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
Statement about the Race report
Statement online The report of the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities was a massive missed opportunity. It could have taken the...
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Mar 22, 20211 min read
International Women's Day!
I felt so honoured this year to be recognised by a couple of papers and blogs for international women's day. I spoke to the Brixton Blog,...
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Nov 16, 20201 min read
Food Justice for Wandsworth
It's been quite a month for food justice and insufficient access to food for children in the holidays. It is so important that political...
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Jun 24, 20202 min read
The Vote Came in - You're a winner
What a week it has been. On Monday the 22nd started like any other Monday in a Pandemic. Wake up, check twitter, drink tea, cycle to...
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May 17, 20202 min read
Business as usual?
It's been 7 weeks. This week: Government advice changed from 'Stay Home' to 'Stay Alert'; Schools are set to reopen on the 1st June; the...
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May 3, 20202 min read
Pager is to whatsapp as Meeting room is to....
Tube travel in post Covid world with no vaccine. So it can't really be post Covid, can it?
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Mar 27, 20202 min read
Feeling Calmer?
A day feels like 12 weeks at the moment and 12 weeks is the quarantine we're facing ahead of us and it feels like 12 months. Things move...
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Mar 4, 20202 min read
Many pills to swallow
Last week something dreadful happened. Benefit reassessments happen when the DWP decide that a persons circumstances have changed and so...
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Feb 21, 20201 min read
Expert Witness!
I had the pleasure of being invited as an expert witness on Food insecurity at City hall earlier this month, by Leonie Cooper AM. This...
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Feb 6, 20201 min read
Council Questions - February 2020
Does the leader agree with me that not mentioning food or food waste in the climate change policy the council was a poor decision?
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Oct 16, 20192 min read
Council Questions - October 2019
When asked to start looking at Food poverty as an issue, you'll never guess what the oposing party said
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Oct 17, 20181 min read
Council Questions - October 2018
Councillors get to ask questions at full council to the leader of the council or the cabinet member in charge of the area of interest and...
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