Dear IRR News subscriber, Twenty-eight years for the Hillsborough families to see anyone charged over the ninety-five deaths. And the so called wheels of justice would not have ground at all had it not been for tenacious families campaigning. Stephen Lawrence was killed in 1993 and two convictions secured nineteen years on. The Grenfell Tower
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Calendar of racism and resistance (16 – 29 June 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration June: The Public Interest Law Unit at Lambeth Law Centre, along with NELMA, launch a crowd-funding appeal to bring a judicial review against Home Office policy of removing rough-sleeping EEA Nationals. View the appeal here.
Go Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies
Go Home? The politics of Immigration Controversies brings together voices against and surrounding the government’s tougher stance on immigration. We hear from community organisations, policy makers, migrants and citizens along with eight social researchers. As indicated by the title, this publication is in direct response to Operation Vaken in 2013, most associated with the Go
What guarantees? The Brexit proposals on EU citizens’ residence
The government’s widely-condemned post-Brexit proposals for EU citizens should be used to highlight the unfair and discriminatory immigration laws to which they will be subjected, particularly those limiting family reunification, which currently apply to British citizens and settled migrants. Brexit secretary David Davis said the aim was to ensure EU citizens resident in the UK
IRR News (2-15 June 2017)
Dear IRR News subscriber, The election result signalled a move towards a progressive riposte to neoliberalism and austerity, one not based on the politics of fear and division, as the Brexit vote seemed to be. But the end result, a hung parliament, leaves a minority Conservative government probably dependent on a party whose constituency is
Calendar of racism and resistance (2-15 June 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 25 May: A 71-year-old man and 69-year-old woman are racially abused in Irvine by a man who asks if they have ‘bombs’. Craig Sharpe, 45, is later charged with acting in a racially aggravated manner.
Respecting the dead
A statement from Last Rights proposing international legal standards for proper and decent treatment of migrants who die at Europe’s borders, and their families, is a vital campaigning tool. As Europe’s leaders focus on border security and rescuers are criminalised, more migrants die. In the first five months of this year, the death rate among migrants
IRR News (18 May – 1 June 2017)
Dear IRR News subscriber, It’s just under two weeks since the horrific suicide bomb-attack in Manchester, and the IRR, like others, has been struck by the dignified and united response of Mancunians to an onslaught which left twenty-two people dead and scores seriously wounded. But not everyone has responded positively to calls by Greater Manchester’s
How right-wing media undermined Manchester’s message of ‘coming together’
Some media responded to the Manchester suicide-bomb attack by attacking liberals, while other extreme-right news outlets and personalities ridiculed the value of coming together in the face of terrorism. On 22 May, twenty-two people, mostly young people, died and scores more were seriously injured in a suicide-bomb attack at the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester
Calendar of racism and resistance (18 May – 1 June 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Post-Manchester 22 May: Following a suicide-bomb attack at the Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester arena, which left 22 people dead, many young people, and hundreds injured, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham tells BBC News that Mancunians will not