Below we reproduce a speech at the eleventh annual Huntley Conference on the IRR’s Black History Collection and the importance of archives in signposting the past and future. Today I want to talk to you about an item from the Black History Collection, which is held at the Institute of Race Relations. But before I get
A demonstration to oppose the presence of neo-Nazi groups in Dover. Saturday 2 April 2016, 9.30am Port of Dover, Kent ME20 Related links Kent Anti-Racist Network Facebook event listing Facebook event for coach info
The launch of an exhibition launch about women’s activism in the East End. Monday 21 March until 21 April 2016 Idea Store Whitechapel, 321 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BU Related links Eastside Community Heritage View further details here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
Inspirational films by and about the people of Africa and the African diaspora, from archive classics to new releases. Tuesday 2 February – Saturday 21 May 2016 BFI Related links British Film Institute Download a flyer (pdf file, 1.9mb)
Workshops run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Wednesday 13 April 2016, Wednesday 20 April 2016 and Wednesday 27 April 2016, 4.30pm Dudden Hill Community Centre, 19 Dudden Hill Lane London NW10 2ED Everyone aged 13 and above is
A workshop run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Sunday 3 April 2016 and Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30am-3.30pm Willesden Green Library, 95 High Road London NW10 2SF Everyone aged 13 and above is welcome. You don’t need
Today, on International Women’s Day, it is women like Jayaben Desai,[1] Kalben Patel and their fellow strikers that we should be remembering and honouring for their tenacity and courage. 23 August 2016 marks forty years since the start of the Grunwick strike. This dispute at the Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden, north-west London lasted for
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 February: Protests occur across Greece against the construction of registration and screening centres, or hotspots, for migrants. In Kos, after three days of protests, residents blockade an army camp earmarked for conversion into a migrant
John Grayson reveals the spread of corporate involvement in the provision of asylum housing in the UK and northern Europe, and how outsourcing and private companies are tarnishing Europe’s ‘welcome’ to refugees. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to two families in G4S housing[1] in Sheffield who arrived in the UK in September last
