UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN) AGM and launch

The UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN) are hosting their AGM and UK launch of the European Network against Racism (ENAR) shadow report on migration and racism. Thursday 4 May 2017, 2-5pm Chartered Institute of Public Relations, 52-53 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HP Speakers include: Ojeaku Nwabuzo – Senior Research Officer at ENAR. Alan Anstead

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (7 – 20 April 2017)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 April: A new immigration skills charge comes into force, requiring employers to pay a £1,000 annual levy for hiring certain skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. It is feared the charge could

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13 Dead, Nothing Said

Vron Ware’s photographs documenting the Black People’s Day of Action (1981) bearing witness to an important moment of resistance in post-war Britain. Thursday 9 March – Saturday 27 May 2017 Goldsmiths, University of London, Richard Hoggart Building, Kingsway Corridor, Dixon Road, London SE14 6YZ Related links View further details here Facebook event listing

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‘You Get Me?”

A photo exhibition exploring the critical question of identity among young working-class British Asian men. Exhibition from Friday 5 May – Saturday 1 July 2017 Rivington Place, Autograph ABP, London EC2A 3BA Related links View further details here Facebook event listing

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‘Our Public and Private Lives are connected’

An exhibition of paintings by Yasmin Dosanjh and Sarbjit Johal expressing the lives and experiences of cleaners, carers, cooks and child minders who carry out these tasks in private homes to Universities. Monday 3 April – Friday 5 May 2017 West Greenwich Library, 146 Greenwich High Road,  London SE10 8NN Related links Facebook event listing

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Housing, Employment & Migrants’ Rights in an Age of Austerity

Migrants’ Rights Network hold a panel to discuss housing, employment and migrants’ rights in an age of austerity. Wednesday 19 April 2017, 6:30 – 8pm Senate Alumni Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Senate House Building, London WC1E 7HU The panel will explore the potential issues that Britain leaving the EU has for European citizens currently living here, as

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Love is not a crime launch night

The Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) launch their exhibition Love Is Not a Crime and celebrate their 10th anniversary. Thursday 13th April, 6-8pm People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Manchester M3 3ER Love Is Not a Crime runs from Friday 14 April 2017 to Sunday 25 June 2017 Related Links Eventbrite page

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Review

Stop feeding the beast! A review of ‘My Country: A work in progress’

A play built around seventy long interviews with ‘leavers’ and ‘remainers’ about their feelings after the Brexit vote, inadvertently, provides insights into the immigration debate. The liberal consensus on immigration has broken down. That’s what Brexit has taught us, or at least that’s what the establishment tells us that Brexit has taught us. The Conservative

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Comment

To Birmingham with love

Hagley Road (© Sue Conlan)

A Birmingham resident fiercely objects, in the wake of the recent deadly terror attack at Westminster, to the depiction of her city as the hotbed of extremism.  According to the Daily Mail (‘So how DID Birmingham become the jihadi capital of Britain?’, 24 March 2017), I live in the ‘jihadi capital of Britain’, Birmingham. ‘Birmingham. Birmingham.

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Picket at Undercover Policing Inquiry

A picket of the Pitchford Inquiry to demand disclosure on political policing abuses in the UK. Wednesday 5 April 2017, 9-10am Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London WC2 Related links See further info here Police Spies Out of Lives

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