A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-Right politics 29 March: In the second round of French local elections, the Front National wins 22 per cent of the vote, securing 62 council seats. (In 2011, it won just one.) However it failed to take control
Geography: North-East England
Immigration detention: signs of spring, or false dawn?
Campaigners have welcomed signs of movement around immigration detention – but celebration may be premature. In March 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on Refugees and Migration produced a strong report whose main recommendation, that immigration detention be severely curtailed and strictly time-limited, echoed the demands made for decades by detainee groups, campaigners and international
Oluwale Partnership Symposium
An event organised by the Oluwale Partnership in Leeds. Friday 17 April 2015, 9.30-4.30 Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Crescent, Leeds LS1 3HB Speakers & performers include: Cllr Keith Wakefield (Leader, Leeds City Council) St George’s Crypt Sai Murray (Remember Oluwale Board member) Michelle Scally-Clarke Rommi Smith Ian Duhig Seni Seniveratne Royal Blood reggae
Catch history on the wing, buy your advance copy now!
A new film of A. Sivanandan, in conversation with Colin Prescod, entitled Catching History on the Wing will have its premiere at an event on 18 April and copies are now available for sale. A. Sivanandan is best known as a key thinker, writer and activist on racism and imperialism, the founder editor of Race
Deaths of Europe’s ‘unwanted and unnoticed’ migrants exposed
The IRR publishes a disturbing new report, Unwanted, unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe, revealing the extent of Europe’s departure from its vaunted humanitarian ideals. The deaths over the last five years, in the detention and reception centres, the streets and the squats of Europe, are a product of the rightlessness
Dying for Justice
On Monday 23 March 2015, the Institute of Race Relations published Dying for Justice which gives the background on 509 people (an average of twenty-two per year) from BAME, refugee and migrant communities who have died between 1991-2014 in suspicious circumstances in which the police, prison authorities or immigration detention officers have been implicated. It concludes
Calendar of racism and resistance (27 February – 12 March 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Serco suspends two staff members from Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre after the showing of a Channel 4 film, made undercover, on the treatment of detainees which revealed what the shadow home secretary called
Documenting casualisation
The TUC is seeking to interview black workers affected by the casualisation of the job market. Austerity measures affect the black community disproportionately and, just this week, figures were released which show that the number of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds, aged 16-24, that have been unemployed longer than a year has risen by
Don’t let them drown
Join South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group’s call for a humanitarian policy towards migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea in search of safety in Europe. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 12.15-6.30pm Assemble at the bottom of the Moor at 12.15 pm to march to the Town Hall for a rally at 1pm, then on to the Home Office at
Handing in the JENGbA petition
Join JENGbA on a march to Downing Street to hand in its petition. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 2pm Assemble at Victoria Coach Station, 164 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9TP to march to Downing Street Related links JENGbA Facebook event page Change.org petition Download a flyer