An event bringing together migrant communities with experts on migration, equality, academics, the media and other stakeholders to discuss post-Brexit responses. Friday 25 November 2016, 9.30-4pm Unite the Union, North London District Office, Ron Todd House, 33-37 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB Related links Migrant Voice
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Demonstration at Czech Embassy
A demonstration to protest the killing of a young Roma man in the Czech Republic by neo-Nazi skinheads. Monday 31 October 2016, 1pm Czech embassy, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY Related links View further details here View a petition here
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson
A film screening and roundtable on the work of Cedric Robinson. Wednesday 9 November 2016, 3.30-7.30pm Room 309, Richard Hoggart Building, Dixon Road, London SE14 6YZ Speakers include: Roderick Ferguson – Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago Avery F. Gordon – Professor of Sociology at
Calendar of racism and resistance (30 September – 13 October 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at
From Grunwick to Deliveroo: getting organised, getting unionised
A one-day conference bringing together campaigners, trade unionists, activists and thinkers to examine the changing nature of work and the terrains for resistance. Saturday 26 November 2016, 10.30-4.30pm Willesden Library Centre, 95 High Road, London NW10 2SF Forty years ago Asian women at Grunwick led a strike for basic human dignity at work and for the
London Anarchist Bookfair
The annual London anarchist bookfair. Saturday 29 October 2016, 10-7pm Park View School, West Green Road, London N15 3QR (nearest station: Seven Sisters, Victoria Line) Related links Anarchist Book Fair
The 1981 Uprisings @ 35: Criminal Justice, Community and the State
A one-day conference bringing together community groups, policy makers and academics to reflect on the 35th anniversary of the Scarman Report, authored in response to the inner-city uprisings of 1981. Saturday 5 November 2016, 10-6pm Peoples Palace, Lecture Theatre 1, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Confirmed speakers include: Gus
18th Annual UFFC remembrance procession
The annual 18th remembrance procession organised by the families and friends of those who have died while in the custody the state. Saturday 29 October 2016, 12-4pm Assemble at Trafalgar Square, London to march to Downing Street Every year since 1999, the UFFC holds its annual remembrance procession from Trafalgar Square to Downing Street to
Peaceful demo against police brutality in High Wycombe
A demonstration in protest at the injuries sustained by Ephraim Allen during an arrest by High Wycombe police and to remember all those who have died in police custody. Friday 14 October 2016, 6-8pm High Wycombe Police Station, Queen Victoria Rd, High Wycombe HP11 1BE Related links Facebook event listing Read about what happened to Ephraim
Race, class and solidarity
A screening of The Great Grunwick Strike 1976-78 followed by a panel discussion. Wednesday 2 November 2016, 7-9.30pm SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre, Lower Ground Floor, Main Building, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Panel: Amrit Wilson – Writer, activist and member of South Asian Solidarity Group Consuelo Moreno – SOAS Justice for Cleaners Campaign Sujata Aurora – Grunwick 40