Creative Equity Toolkit

What is Pay the Rent? And how do we do it?

Article outlining the pay the rent concept.

'Without a treaty, non-Indigenous people continue to live and meet on stolen land, and, in recognition of this, we ought to pay our rent. The money goes...preferably to the traditional owner group whose land we live or work on. First developed as a policy by the National Aboriginal and Islander Health Organisation (NAIHO) in Fitzroy in the 1970s, its devisers were clear: it is not charity – it is paying what is owed.'

What is Privilege?

Video on a group of people from different backgrounds undertaking the privilege walk exercise.

When will Britain face up to its crimes against humanity?

An article looking at the compensation paid to former slave owners by British taxpayers until 2015 - a sum equivalent to £300 billion.

'After the abolition of slavery, Britain paid millions in compensation – but every penny of it went to slave owners, and nothing to those they enslaved. We must stop overlooking the brutality of British history.'

While the US debate heats up, why won’t the UK even talk about reparations for slavery?

A look at the reparations debate in Britain:

'...politicians dismiss the significance of the slave trade without so much of a wave of the hand, or repeat the tired inaccuracy that it all happened far too long ago to worry about now. This despite the claims of Brexit supporters that the Commonwealth might play a major part in our international trade strategy after we leave the European Union.'