A night of panel discussions, short films, dramatic monologues, poetry, and probing questions exploring the racial state under the War on Terror. Speakers include: Nisha Kapoor Liz Fekete Ken Ferro Suhaiymah Manzooh-Khan Hamja Ahsan Saturday 8 September 2018 RichMix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Related Links Tickets for event Show map
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Calendar of racism and resistance (20 July – 15 August 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 18 July: Liverpool City Council passes a cross-party motion calling on the government to end the indefinite detention of asylum seekers, saying the system is ‘inhumane’ and ‘not fit for purpose’. (These Walls Must Fall,
Daily Mail – ‘you’re in a league of your own’
A French Muslim activist gives the Daily Mail a lesson on how to avoid racial and religious stereotyping. French activist Marwan Muhammad was so incensed by a Daily Mail article that linked ‘immigration on a mammoth scale’ to drug dealing, crime and poverty in the French neighbourhood of Saint-Denis, in northern Paris, that he sent a
The lethal consequences of the ‘hostile environment’
On 30 June, 23-year-old Mustafa Dawood, who was from the Darfur region of Sudan, was found dead after falling from a building in Newport, Wales as immigration officers carried out a raid at a car wash. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the death, and its press release noted: ‘A 23 year
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 July 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration July: Sentina D’Artanyan-Bristol, the mother of Dexter Bristol, ‘a child of the Windrush generation, who died this March, following a year of being rejected as a British citizen’ is raising funds to cover the legal
Windrush: Songs in a strange land
A review on a powerful exhibition at the British Library on the relationship between Britain and the Caribbean post-Windrush, which refuses to take the usual UK-centric approach. The recent ‘Windrush scandal’ has woken the nation to the institutional cruelty at the heart of the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment policies’. Now, a brilliant free exhibition running
Islamophobia in Denmark: from parallel societies to the ‘ghetto list’
Anti-Muslim discrimination is now central to Danish immigration and integration policies. It is ludicrous, not to mention unscientific to suggest that there are ghettos in Denmark, but fear of ridicule does not stop the Danish Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing producing a ‘ghetto list’ (ghettolisten). First published in 2010, and updated each year, the
The Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal is coming to London
A call for migrant rights organisations to sign up to support the Tribunal and to submit evidence. The London hearing of the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT), the international public opinion tribunal established in the 1970s to draw attention to human rights violations worldwide, is scheduled for early November. One of a series of hearings on
Macpherson definition misunderstood in Labour Party anti-Semitism definition
As the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour’s National Executive Committee meet to discuss the adoption of a contentious definition of anti-Semitism, the IRR draws attention to its evidence to the Chakrabarti Review, submitted two years ago. In June 2016, we drew attention to the dangers of introducing too much subjectivity into the definition of racism,
Who we are is what we do
Jenny Bourne, IRR veteran, writes on what the memorial event for A. Sivanandan held on 23 June at Conway Hall, meant for her. Early in 1972, the whole staff of the Institute of Race Relations invaded a specially-convened meeting of its Council of Management in a Jermyn Street boardroom to tell these usually ‘absentee landlords’