A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-right politics 12 December: Four English Defence League (EDL) supporters are jailed for a total of over six years after violence during an EDL demonstration in Birmingham city centre in July 2013, described by the judge as ‘plainly
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 14 November: It is revealed that an unnamed language analyst working for Swedish firm Sprakab, is a convicted drug smuggler whose expert reports have been used to refuse asylum to hundreds in the UK.
A Race Equality Foundation and JUST West Yorkshire information event on changes to health and social care. Wednesday 10 December 2014, 1-4pm Bradford Related links Download a flyer here (pdf file, 213kb) Register via Eventbrite Race Equality Foundation Just West Yorkshire
A screening of David Koff’s historic Blacks Britannica (1978) hosted by South London Anti-Fascists. Thursday 30 October 2014, 7pm Cinema (Room RHB 185), Goldsmiths University, London SE14 6NW Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about racism and the state today.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting the key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees September: The ECtHR rules that conditions for migrants detained in a number of Greek police stations and immigration detention centres are so bad that they amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in two
A community action workshop and talks. Sunday 5 October 2014, 11.30-4pm Star and Shadow Cinema, Stepney Bank, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2NP Speakers: Frances Webber – retired immigration, asylum and human rights barrister/author of Borderline Justice: the fight for refugee and migrant rights Unity Centre – Glasgow Related links Facebook event listing Beyond Borders Tyneside
A new report by Human Rights First on fascism in Hungary and Greece raises important questions. But its orientation towards US national interests smacks of Cold War thinking. When we think of the leaders of Europe’s far- and extreme-Right parties today, it is easy to ridicule them as fossils, nostalgic for days of Empire and
A meeting to collect evidence from people who have been detained and from organisations that support people in detention for the parliamentary inquiry into immigration detention. Tuesday 23 September 2014 at 6.30-8pm Northern Refugee Centre, Exchange Brewery, 2 Bridge Street, Sheffield S3 8NS Related links South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group
A calendar of stories from the last week. Asylum seekers & refugees 27 August 2014: Medical Justice has published a report: Biased and Unjust: The Immigration Detention Complaints Process, you can download it here (pdf file, 6.4mb). 29 August: 44-year-old Wadih Chourey, who has Down’s syndrome, faces deportation to Lebanon after the Home Office refused
