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Remembering the Holocaust

The Union’s next Holocaust Memorial Day event will be held at Hamilton House on 29 January 2013 on the theme ‘Communities together: build a bridge’, to honour communities destroyed in the Holocaust under Nazi persecution. To register an interest in attending email hmd@nut.org.uk

Campaign to free Cubans

The NUT is supporting a Cuba Solidarity campaign to free the Miami Five – Gerardo Hernández, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González and René González – Cubans falsely jailed by the US Government for committing espionage. September 2012 marked their 14th year in prison.

Please write to ask your MP to sign EDM 497 which calls on the US Government to allow two of the Miami Five’s wives – Adriana Perez and Olga Salanueva – to be allowed to visit their husbands.

Visit http://edm.cuba-solidarity.org.uk

Black History Month

The NUT produced new educational materials for Black History Month in October. The leafl et, poster and guidance notes for students aged 13+ explore the Nazi persecution of black people from 1933 to 1945. The new materials are part of a suite of NUT/Holocaust Educational Trust materials looking at all the groups targeted by the Nazis. Find them at www.teachers.org.uk/teachingresources/holocaust

Supporting Venezuela

NUT President Marilyn Harrop and Venezuelan Ambassador Samuel Moncada, former Minister of Higher Education, were among speakers at an evening Rally for Venezuela at Hamilton House in September.

The NUT is affiliated to the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign that organised the evening. Venezuelans went to the polls and re-elected President Chavez on 7 October.

Volunteering to help your union

If you would like to add your name to the growing list of members who are volunteering to get involved in the NUT, go to www.teachers.org.uk/getinvolved to give us your details.

Peter Arkell