The Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA) is marching for those ‘wrongly imprisoned’. Saturday 3 May 2014 London: assemble at 10am at Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Manchester: assemble 12pm at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester M1 Related links View a flyer JENGbA JENGbA on Twitter JENGbA
Geography: North-West England
Death at Europe’s frontiers: foreseeable result of state policy?
European states are morally responsible for deaths at the EU’s borders, argues the International State Crime Initiative. ‘This is the main feature of contemporary border politics. It exposes the border transgressors to death rather than directly using its power to kill.’ Khosravi (2010), ‘Illegal’ Traveller: an auto-ethnography of borders (p. 27) On 6 February, fifteen
Freedom of Information masterclass
A day school on freedom of information and transformative research. Wednesday 5 March 2014, 6.45pm Chandler Room, Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GL Speakers include: Harmit Athwal – Institute of Race Relations Shiar Youseff – Corporate Watch Stuart Wilks-Heeg – University of Liverpool David Whyte – University of Liverpool Graham Smith – Information Commissioner’s Office
Call for end to CPS inaction
Last week families and campaigners demanded an end to Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inaction over deaths in custody cases. The demonstration was called by the United Families and Friends Campaign and Stop G4S because of procrastination about whether to charge those involved in the deaths of Azelle Rodney and Jimmy Mubenga. Damning unlawful killing verdicts were
CPS Crisis
Demonstration against Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inaction. This year there have been two damning unlawful killing verdicts into deaths in custody and still the CPS is procrastinating about whether to charge those involved. Friday 6 December 2013, 11-1pm Crown Prosecution Service, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS Related links Download a flyer (pdf
FOI seminar
A ‘masterclass’ on the use of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as a research method. Wednesday 4 December 2013, 1pm Seminar Room 10, Rendall Building, Bedford Street South, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA Speakers: Harmit Athwal – Institute of Race Relations Graham Smith – Information Commissioner’s Office David Whyte – University of Liverpool Stuart
Anti-extremism or anti-fascism?
Anti-extremism frameworks, popular in policy and academic circles, are masking the multi-dimensional and pan-European nature of contemporary fascism and the role of the state. Not since the early 1990s, and the pogroms at Hoyerswerda and Rostock have Europe’s far-right movements posed such a tangible threat to the safety of racial and religious minorities. In truth,
Systematic Greek border abuses exposed
‘Pushed back’, the new report by migrant and refugee rights group ProAsyl, exposes the systematic abuses and human rights violations of the Greek border control regime. Greece’s abject failure to comply with international and European legal standards regarding the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees is a well-known and well-documented issue in the EU. However,
Re-presenting refugees
An exploration of art, displacement and refugees. Wednesday 30 October 2013, 6pm Manchester Museum, University Of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Event includes: Panel discussion Multimedia experimental performance RELATED LINKS Virtual Migrants Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit Platforma Community Arts North West Street Level Photoworks
90 degree citizen exhibition
The opening event of an exhibition of work by visual artists whose experiences include life as refugees in the UK. Thursday 10 October 2013, 6-8pm Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL In conversation: Artists and curators Live music from Emmanuela Yogolelo RELATED LINKS Virtual Migrants Street Level Photoworks Manchester Museum GM Immigration Aid Unit