A meeting to discuss MI5 practices. Friday 18 January 2013, 7pm Council Chamber, Camden Town Hall, Judd Steet, London WC1H 9JE Speakers: Saghir Hussain – CagePrisoners Sharhabeel Lone – KTCO Mohamed Nur – KTCO Kurdish Federation UK Tom Foot – Journalist George Binette – Camden UNISON Frances Webber – Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Geography: London
Solidarity with Greek anti-fascists
A demonstration in solidarity with the anti-fascist movement in Greece. Saturday 19 January 2013, 12pm Greek embassy, 1A Holland Park, Notting Hill, London W11 3TP Related links Unite Against Fascism
SHAKE! Arts, media, race, power
A five-day course for 16-25 year olds to creatively express feelings and frustrations about the injustices of society. Monday-Friday, 18-22 February 2013 Stephen Lawrence Centre, 39 Brookmill Road, Deptford, London SE8 4HU Activities include: Interactive workshops with artists and educators Online media, film/video and music technology Access to a/v equipment and workshop spaces Opportunities to showcase
‘A Wall of Anti-Slavery Fire’
A seminar on Frederick Douglass, a former African American slave who visited Britain in the 1840’s and enhanced the transatlantic connections between abolitionists. Tuesday 15 January 2013, 6pm University of London, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DN Speaker: Hannah Murray RELATED LINKS The Black and Asian Studies Association
Calais benefit party
An evening of food and music to collect donations for migrants in Calais during winter. Friday 11 January 2013, 7pm til late Library Street Social Centre, 44-50 Lancaster Street, London SE1 0RY Related links Download a flyer here Library Street Social Centre
From despair comes resistance
Asylum-seekers and migrants across Europe are determined to change the inhuman circumstances of their existence. In his new book Fortress Europe: dispatches from a gated continent, journalist Matthew Carr describes a protest in Lombardy in which five migrants climbed to the top of a crane above Brescia’s new light railway line. ‘For seventeen days they
Medical Justice festive dinner
An evening with doctors, lawyers, campaigners and ex-detainees. Wednesday 5 December 2012, 6.45pm Andover Estate Community Centre, Andover Estate, Finsbury Park, London N7 7RY. RELATED LINKS Medical Justice
Cartoon and article deemed racist by NGO
Below we reproduce a letter from the editor of the Travellers’ Times to the Metro newspaper on a recent racist article and cartoon on Gypsies. ‘Presumably you expected Richard Herring’s piece ’Beware the gipsy (sic) curse‘ (Metro, 9 November 2012) to raise cheap laughs, but we Romany Gypsies, and those who work with us, would
The struggle for family and private life in the UK
A training day to explore how unity can be built with those fighting for leave to remain, or those who have just been granted status, to challenge the austerity measures. Saturday 24 November 2012, 10-3.30pm The Friends Meeting House, 6 The Friars, Canterbury, Kent CT1 2AS Speakers: Sheona York – Kent Law Clinic Shanti Haft
Shadow Lives
A lecture based on the forthcoming book by Victoria Brittain, Shadow Lives: the Forgotten Women of the War on Terror. Friday 23 November 2012, 6.30pm The Institute of Psychoanalysis, Byron House, 112A Shirland Road, London W9 2EQ Speaker: Victoria Brittain – journalist and author of Shadow Lives: the Forgotten Women of the War on Terror