Join Room to Heal for an evening of storytelling, art work and music to celebrate their summer party. Friday 6th July 2018, 6pm – late Mildmay Community Centre, London, N16 8NA RSVP: anna@roomtoheal.org Tickets: suggested donation £7 (unwaged) £10 (waged) £15 (solidarity!) Related Links Link to Room to Heal website here
Geography: South-East England
Calendar of racism and resistance (8 – 21 June 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 June: Scottish refugee charities raise concerns about the number of asylum seekers forced into ‘state-sponsored homelessness’ after being released from Dungavel detention centre with nowhere to go. (Herald, 3 June 2018) 5 June: Serco
Report published into Lukasz Debowski’s death at Morton Hall
On 11 January 2017, 27-year-old Lukasz Debowski was found hanged in his room at Morton Hall, an immigration detention centre in Lincoln. 2017 was the deadliest year in immigration detention, with the largest number of deaths. Lukasz Debowski was the first of six people to die that year, and the fifth person to die at
Connecting the past and the present in Liverpool
Danny Reilly reviews an important new book detailing the migrant history of Liverpool. Based on the work of the Great War to Race Riots Archive presented to Liverpool-based organisation Writing on the Wall, this book/project centres around the ‘race riots’ in Liverpool in 1919, but tells a much wider and inter-connected story. As its bibliography
Beyond Windrush: building the movement for migrants’ rights
Join activists, grassroots groups and migrant campaigners to learn more about what’s wrong with our immigration system and explore practical ways of taking action. Thursday 28 June 2018, 6-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY Participants include: Docs Not Cops Migrants Organise Schools Against Borders for Children Let Us Learn Liberty
Calendar of racism and resistance (17 May – 7 June 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 May: Canada grants political asylum to Viktória Mohácsi, a former Hungarian MEP and Roma rights activist. After exposing police incompetence in the Roma serial killers case, Mohácsi received constant threats and sought police protection.
The spiralling dynamic of fear – and how to fight it
Frances Webber reviews Corporate Watch’s new report: ‘Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment’. The central thesis of this closely argued and compelling report, Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment, is that the purpose of tough immigration policies is not to control immigration – ‘deterrent’ policies don’t
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land
Seventy years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London, hear the Caribbean voices behind the 1940s headlines. Why did people come? What did they leave behind? And how did they shape Britain? Friday 1 June – Sunday 21 October 2018 Entrance Hall, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Related links British Library Windrush exhibition
Populism, People and the Media
This seminar aims to advance understanding of the political economy of ‘populism’ and to examine the role of traditional media in promoting, investigating or resisting ‘populism’. Wednesday 30 May 2018, 9-6pm, Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Speakers include: Miriyam Aouragh Michaela Benson Joan Pedro Caranana Liz Fekete Natalie Fenton
JENGbA responds to the Amnesty International report on the Gangs Matrix
Below we reproduce Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association’s (JENGbA) statement on the recent Amnesty International report on the Gangs Matrix. JENGbA welcomes the damning Amnesty International report that highlights the government’s racist, bogus war on gangs. The Met’s gang-mapping database, known as the Gangs Matrix, lists individuals as ‘gang nominals’ with each given an automated violence