Kamal Preet Kaur
Passionate about people, poetry & politics
Where community leadership meets passionate purpose – that's where you'll find me thriving. I'm a multifaceted professional who believes that meaningful connections are the foundation of lasting impact. As a multi-platform journalist, Hillingdon Councillor, British Sikh Woman of the Year Award finalist, trustee of Fassnidge Memorial Trust, and executive member of the Fabian Women's Network, I've dedicated my career to amplifying voices that deserve to be heard.
Love,
Kamal Preet Kaur
MMC, MFC, MA, PGCE, NEBOSH GC
FEATURED POEM
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GAZA Every morsel in my mouth feels heavy as pictures of skeleton-thin babies, children, men, women; old, young, very old, very young; with hungry, haunted eyes, rough hands, ragged bodies in thread-bare clothes, flash across my tear-stung eyes as if they're thrusting in front of me their empty "begging" bowls... Their howls and painful screams and screeches and louder still their silent groans, keep me awake at night and in the day pierce not just my ears but my heart too... That, which is already burdened by hopelessness and deepest despair at not being able to do anything to share and lessen their agony That which feels party to all that's being done to them in far away lands, by just beating its rhythmic beat-- in this well-clothed, well-fed, well-rested body. That which questions if I am still human or my humanity has died and is now buried deep under the rubble with countless bodies of babies, children, men, women; old, young very old, very young; who should have been alive in their own homes in their own land in their own olive groves... Why do we turn away from love? Why can't we feel everyone's pain? How much more loss of humanity, of life, of love will it take for us to wake up and realise... every pain is our collective anguish every hunger, our collective starvation every untimely death, our collective loss every tear, our own collective, flowing grief And that we are all but threaded together by One, the Only, Loving and Merciful. Bound together by transience of our lives on this tiny speck of Universal dust as fragile as bubbles, as thin as wisps of clouds as momentary as ticks of time. Love is the only way. Compassion is the only way. We MUST wake up NOW. Or one day it may be too late to reverse our curse and everything we touch would become lifeless, rubble and barren and then it wouldn't matter where we are on the map. --- Yours truly Pic- Washington #Gaza #Gazaisstarving
FEATURED POST
In solidarity with the Rural Activities Garden Centre, Hillingdon, facing threat of closure
Dear residents, I stand in full solidarity with the residents and everyone at The Rural Activities Garden Centre. I joined other Hillingdon Labour Group councillors, John McDonnell MP and Danny Beales for Uxbridge & South Ruislip, at the centre this morning at the demonstration organised to save the RAGC and heard many heartfelt stories about just how much this place means to people — not just those who use it, but the wider community too. I’m really glad to hear that there are now moves to register it as an "Asset of Community Value (ACV)" — something I’ve been harping on about for some time! These designations matter. As more council-owned spaces come under threat across the borough, it’s vital that residents act early and get places they care about protected. Let’s keep standing up for our community spaces — once they’re gone, they’re gone. According to the council, "The council regularly reviews its assets to ensure they are delivering best value for residents, and the running costs of the commercial garden centre on West Drayton Road, Hillingdon, have been found to be no longer sustainable. " he report on the future of the RAGC will be considered by the council's Cabinet on Thursday 26 June.
