A SERTUC Race Relations Committee event to remember Claudia Jones who founded Britain’s first Black newspaper, The West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian Caribbean News, in 1958. She was also one of the founders of the Notting Hill Carnival, as a community led response to the Notting Hill race riots of 1958. Friday 6 March 2015, 6-9pm
Geography: South-East England
Archaic Operation Shield?
Below we reproduce a letter to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, by the Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA) on his new Operation Shield proposals which have been likened to the doctrine of joint enterprise. Dear Mr Johnson, Joint Enterprise: Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) is a grassroots campaign currently supporting over 500 prisoners
Met introduces collective punishment measures
Community activists respond to Boris Johnson’s Operation Shield proposals – a ‘tough new gang intervention pilot’. The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has announced that Operation Shield, a new pilot to tackle ‘gang’ crime, ‘will see members of some of the most active gangs in London collectively punished for the criminal actions of individual
Justice for Julian
Live music, performances good food, drink and music to raise money for Julian and the Cole family. Saturday 28 February 2015, 7pm-12am Northolt Park Social Club, Sussex Crescent, Northolt, Slough UB5 4DR Related links Facebook event listing Read an article about Julian Cole, the IPCC and allegations of police brutality here
The Great British Values Disaster – education, security and vitriolic hate
Educationalists Bill Bolloten and Robin Richardson discuss the impacts of the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) agenda. The time is late January 2015. The place is a university campus somewhere in England. ‘Kill Islam,’ says a piece of graffiti scrawled in big red letters on one of the university’s buildings, ‘before it kills you’. ‘How do I feel?’
UAF National Conference
Unite Against Fascism’s national conference. • Saturday 21 February 2015, 9.30-4pm • TUC Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Speakers include: Diane Abbott Emily Thornberry Christine Bucholz Sharar Ali Ken Livingstone Billy Hayes Mark Serwokta Shuja Shafi Janet Alder Carol Duggan Marcia Rigg
Relay for Rights
A ‘Relay for Rights’ organised by the Justice Alliance, starting at the Runnymede – the birthplace of the Magna Carta. Saturday 21 February 2015, 12pm – Monday 23 February, 1pm Assemble at 12pm on 21 February at the Runnymede, Windsor Road, near Old Windsor, Surrey SL4 2JL Details: Saturday, day one – Runnymede to Hampton Court Sunday, day
Stand Up for Legal Aid
A night of comedy and music to support the Justice Alliance’s campaign against the cuts to legal aid. Monday 23 February 2015, 6.3o–10.30pm Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN Acts include: Stephen K Amos Angela Barnes Alistair Barrie Kevin Eldon Stewart Lee Sara Pascoe Nick Revell Joe Wells (Further guests to be announced) RELATED LINKS
Calendar of racism and resistance (16 – 29 January 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 January: The Independent recounts the story behind the death of Pawel Koseda, a homeless Polish migrant, who was found dead impaled on the railings of a church in Kensington in October 2014. (Independent, 15
Recent news on deaths in custody
An overview of news on recent deaths in custody, upcoming inquests and a failed prosecution. Adrian McDonald: first black taser victim On 22 December 2014, 34-year-old Adrian McDonald died after being tasered by police officers in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. According to the IPCC, which investigates deaths in police custody: ‘Police attended an incident at a flat