On 25 July, the campaign for justice for Sheku Bayoh, who died after an incident with police, was launched in Glasgow. At the event organised by Scotland Against Criminalising Communities (SACC), a press conference was held, followed by a conference with the families of those who have also lost loved ones through a death in police
Geography: Scotland
Justice for Sheku Bayoh campaign launch
A one-day conference to launch the Justice for Sheku Bayoh campaign with the family of Sheku Bayoh & relatives of others who have died in police custody. Saturday 25 July 2015, 11-5pm The Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4HZ Speakers include: Colette Bell – partner of Sheku Bayoh Adeyemi Johnson – brother-in-law of Sheku
Racist violence: important conviction and updates
In the last few weeks a number of important cases involving racially-motivated violence have been before the courts. Dr Sarandev Bhambra On 25 June, in a few hours, Zack Davies was found guilty by a jury of the attempted murder of 24-year-old dentist Dr Sarandev Bhambra in Mold in Wales in January 2015. Davies had
Calendar of racism and resistance (19 June – 2 July 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 19 June: The Independent Police Complaints Commission will consider whether the ethnicity or the mental health of a 33-year-old prisoner injured in a cell influenced the actions of six officers involved in his restraint, resulting in
Past and present of the IRR
Two videos from the IRR’s recent conference Catching History on the Wing, which celebrated the work of the IRR and A. Sivanandan, are now available to view. The first session examined the ‘coup’ in 1972 which ousted the IRR’s rich and powerful Management Board and its monopoly on defining ‘race relations’, is available here. The second
Sivanandan’s April 2015 postscript
A. Sivanandan updates his thinking on globalisation, impact of the market state and the stirrings of rebellion. ‘The spaces are there for us to fight back in, and the time is here to be seized’. RELATED LINKS Read about the event here
Catching history on the wing: the future
Session three of of an event celebrating the work of the Institute of Race Relations on 18 April 2015. The future: Building on communities of dissent: premiere of film Catching History on the Wing: a conversation with A Sivanandan followed by audience/panel interaction led by Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group) and Phil Miller (Corporate Watch), moderated
Catching history on the wing: the past
Session one of an event celebrating the work of the Institute of Race Relations on 18 April 2015. The past: Thinking in order to do – an audio interview ‘On lived theory’ with A. Sivanandan; discussion with Colin Prescod and Jenny Bourne about the IRR’s historic struggle, followed by contributions from the floor. Related links Read
A round-up of the latest news on BAME deaths in custody
The last month has seen significant cases come to court, important inquests and new legal challenges and decisions. Habib Ullah: misconduct hearing On 15 June, five Thames Valley Police (TVP) police officers were cleared of misconduct by a disciplinary hearing following the death of Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah after a stop and search in July 2008. The
Spinning the death of Sheku Bayoh
Following the death of Sheku Bayoh last month, police used the decades-old tactic of attacking a victim’s character in a suspicious custody death. On 3 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh, a gas engineer from Sierra Leone, died on the street in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He had been restrained by up to nine police officers responding to an