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词条 Alex Kumar
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  1. Early life

  2. Musical career

  3. Political Campaigning

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. External links

{{notability|Biographies|date=December 2018}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2014}}{{Use British English|date=May 2014}}Alexander Fraser Nehru Kumar {{postnominals|country=GBR|FRSA|FRE}} is a musician and political campaigner based in the United Kingdom.[1]

Early life

Kumar read History & Politics at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, where he hosted regular sessions to help the homeless.[2] He publicly rejected a nomination for the Vice-Chancellor’s Social Impact Award due to "moral questions".[3]

Musical career

From 2013 to 2016, Kumar worked as a musician and singer-songwriter based in Miami and the southwest of England, playing folk, blues, and latin music.[4] He performed largely on community radio stations.[5][6] He released a self-titled album in 2013.[7]

Political Campaigning

Kumar has campaigned around the issues of homelessness and rough sleeping in the UK.[8][9][10] He has been a frequent commentator in the UK press on social responsibility and the treatment of homeless people.[11][12] In June 2018, he argued in The Guardian that homelessness in the UK must not be viewed "as detached from the housing crisis – a crisis exaggerated, even driven, by speculation on the housing market".[13][14]

Kumar is also known for his legal reform campaigning. In November 2017, Kumar launched a campaign for the repeal or reform of the Vagrancy Act 1824, which makes it an offence to sleep rough or beg in England and Wales. The campaign gained initial support in the liberal press, and from Christian groups.[15][16] In February 2018, the Home Office responded to Kumar's campaign to say that the Government had no plans to make changes to the law. The campaign's demands were then raised in Parliament by Layla Moran at Prime Minister's Questions and by a cross-party group of MPs.[17][18][19] A private member's bill for the repeal of the Vagrancy Act was introduced to the House of Commons, but its second reading was rescheduled for 2019 in what Kumar called, in an interview with Cherwell, a "procedural ploy".[20][21][22] In August 2018, the British Government announced a ministerial review of the Vagrancy Act 1824.[23]

Kumar caused controversy by heckling and walking out of an address by political commentator Ann Coulter to the Oxford Union in 2018, after which he wrote an op-ed in Cherwell claiming that the "responsibilities" of freedom of speech entail people challenging speech that they deem "evil".[24]

See also

  • Shaista Aziz
  • Paul Downes
  • Freddy Leo

References

1. ^{{Cite web|title = Fellow: Alexander Fraser Nehru Kumar|url = https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/find-a-fellow/Profile/142993|website = Royal Society of the Arts|accessdate = 25 November 2018}}
2. ^{{Cite web|title = The campaign to end homelessness: interview with Alex Kumar|url = https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/news/the-campaign-to-end-homelessness-interview-with-alex-kumar|website = St Edmund Hall|date = 10 September 2018}}
3. ^{{Cite web|title = On Your Doorstep chair rejects prize|url = https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/05/04/on-your-doorstep-chair-rejects-prize/|website = The Oxford Student|date = 4 May 2018|first = Joseph|last = Tulloch}}
4. ^{{Cite web|title = Alex Kumar - Not Going Home Anymore|url = http://www.balconytv.com/videos/alex-kumar-not-going-home-any-more|website = BalconyTV|accessdate = 24 November 2018}}
5. ^{{Cite web|title = BBC Radio: Live from Darts Farm|url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01f62vx|website = BBC Radio Devon|date = 7 September 2013}}
6. ^{{Cite web|title = Phonic FM|url = http://phonic.fm/category/phonic-fm-presenters/terry-walters-phonic-fm-presenters/|website = Phonic FM|accessdate = 24 November 2018}}
7. ^{{Cite web|title = Alex Kumar - Alex Kumar|url = https://www.discogs.com/Alex-Kumar-Alex-Kumar/release/6075805|website = Discogs|date = 15 November 2013}}
8. ^{{Cite web|title = City Council to host all-stakeholder City Conversation on rough sleeping and homelessness|url = https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/596/city_council_to_host_all-stakeholder_city_conversation_on_rough_sleeping_and_homelessness|website = Oxford City Council|date = 23 November 2017}}
9. ^{{Cite web|title = Alex Kumar, Chair of On Your Doorstep|url = https://cityconversation.org/testimonial/alex-kumar-chair-of-student-group-on-your-doorstep/|website = City Conversation|accessdate = 27 November 2018}}
10. ^{{Cite web|title = 30,000 people back call for winter homeless hostel rules to be relaxed|url = https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/NEWS/15827928.30_000_people_back_call_for_winter_homeless_hostel_rules_to_be_relaxed/|website = Oxford Mail|date = 15 January 2018|first = Nathan|last = Briant}}
11. ^{{Cite web|title = Oxford University criticised for suggesting students' generosity has led to more homeless people in city|url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/oxford-university-homeless-people-students-generosity-proctors-email-a8396611.html|website = The Independent|date = 13 June 2018|first = Eleanor|last = Busby}}
12. ^{{Cite news|title = Homeless 'lured to Oxford by generosity of students'|url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/homeless-lured-to-oxford-by-generosity-of-students-388n7ttv5|newspaper = The Times|date = 13 June 2018|first = Rosemary|last = Bennett}}
13. ^{{Cite news|title = Oxford University official links rough sleeping to students' generosity |url = https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/13/oxford-university-official-links-rough-sleeping-to-students-generosity|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 13 June 2018|first = Matthew|last = Weaver}}
14. ^{{Cite news|title = Oxford University criticised for claiming student generosity exacerbates homelessness|url = https://theboar.org/2018/06/oxford-university-criticised-for-claiming-student-generosity-exacerbates-homelessness/|newspaper = The Boar|date = 25 June 2018|first = Emily|last = Kinder}}
15. ^{{Cite web|title = The politicians resurrecting a Dickensian law to make homeless people into criminals|url = https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/01/politicians-resurrecting-dickensian-law-make-homeless-people-criminals|website = New Statesman|date = 23 January 2018|first = Thomas|last = Zagoria}}
16. ^{{Cite web|title = Rebelling Against Authority|url = https://weare.tearfund.org/rebelling-against-authority/|website = Tearfund|date = 18 April 2018|first = Sam|last = Fletcher}}
17. ^{{Cite web|title = Layla Moran: Homeless people need us to find the money to put a roof over their heads|url = https://www.libdemvoice.org/layla-moran-homeless-people-need-us-to-find-the-money-to-put-a-roof-over-their-heads-56785.html|website = Liberal Democrat Voice|date = 28 February 2018}}
18. ^{{Cite web|title = Theresa May refuses to back bid to scrap Dickensian law that criminalises rough sleepers|url = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/theresa-refuses-back-bid-scrap-11985847|website = Daily Mirror|date = 7 February 2018|first = Mikey|last = Smith}}
19. ^{{Cite web|title = Early day motion 903: REPEAL OF THE VAGRANCY ACT 1824|url = https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/business-papers/commons/early-day-motions/edm-detail1/?edmnumber=903&session=2017-19|website = www.parliament.uk|accessdate = 24 November 2018}}
20. ^{{Cite web|title = Vagrancy (Repeal) Bill 2017-19|url = https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/vagrancyrepeal.html|website = www.parliament.uk|accessdate = 24 November 2018}}
21. ^{{Cite web|title = Government blocks Oxford MP's bill for rough sleepers|url = http://cherwell.org/2018/03/23/government-blocks-oxford-mps-bill-for-rough-sleepers/|website = Cherwell|date = 23 March 2018|first = Oscar|last = Baker}}
22. ^{{Cite web|title = The government has blocked a bill that would return some dignity to homeless people|url = https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2018/03/25/the-government-has-blocked-a-bill-that-would-return-some-dignity-to-homeless-people/|website = The Canary|date = 25 March 2018|first = Nye|last = Jones}}
23. ^{{Cite news|title = £100m drive to end rough sleeping in England by 2027|url = https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/11/100m-drive-to-end-rough-sleeping-in-england-by-2027|newspaper = The Guardian|date = 11 August 2018|last1 = Association|first1 = Press}}
24. ^{{Cite web|title = The rights and responsibilities of fighting 'evil speeches'|url = http://cherwell.org/2018/05/04/the-rights-and-responsibilities-of-fighting-evil-speeches/|website = Cherwell|date = 4 May 2018|first = Alex|last = Kumar}}

External links

  • [https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2018/mar/02/privileged-students-homelessness-crisis-oxford Alex Kumar] at The Guardian
  • [https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/find-a-fellow/Profile/142993 Alex Kumar] at The Royal Society of Arts
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9 : Living people|Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford|English people of Guyanese descent|English people of Scottish descent|English people of Indian descent|English people of Jewish descent|English people of Italian descent|Nehru–Gandhi family|1990s births
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