The Haldane Society’s annual human rights lecture series begins with a defence of legal aid. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 6.30-8pm Basement Lecture Theatre (GSB01), School of Law, London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP Speaker: Matt Foot – criminal defence solicitor and co-founder of the Justice Alliance Related Links Download a flyer (pdf file, 48kb)
Geography: South-East England
Talha Ahsan prison poetry reading
Readings of Talha Ahsan’s prison poetry. Sunday 19 October 2014, 7.30pm Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX Speakers and readers include: Hamja Ahsan – Brother of Talha Ahsan Patric Cunnane – Poet Kirsten Irving – Poet Related Links Free Talha Ahsan Hearing Eye poetry publishers
‘We revolt simply because … we can no longer breathe’
An impressive new film on the death of Mark Duggan, and the riots that followed, provides a welcome radical alternative narrative. Ken Fero’s new film, Burn, (dedicated to those who burn for justice) describes itself as a movie about memory. He asks ‘why Britain burns?’ and there are a variety of responses, but the consensus
Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
A discussion with Dr. Richard Stone based on a reading from his recently published book of Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Tuesday 28 October 2014, 6.30-9pm Main Hall, Dominion Centre, 112 The Green, Southall, Middlesex UB2 4BQ Related links Hidden Stories home page Hidden Stories Twitter account Dr Richard Stone on Twitter Download
Annual UFFC remembrance procession
The annual United Families and Friends Campaign (UFFC) march calling for an end to deaths in custody. Saturday 25 October 2014 Assemble at 12pm at Trafalgar Square, London for a silent procession along Whitehall followed by a noisy protest at Downing Street Related links Download a flyer here (pdf file, 136kb) Facebook event listing United
Institutional indifference – in life and death
The treatment of a homeless French man who died in immigration detention makes grim reading and shows up a callous system. On 26 September, nearly two years after the inquest, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published a fatal incident report into the death on 6 December 2011 of an unnamed 40-year-old French man in
Calendar of racism and resistance (19 September-3 October)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting the key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees September: The ECtHR rules that conditions for migrants detained in a number of Greek police stations and immigration detention centres are so bad that they amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in two
Mark Duggan public meeting
A public meeting organised by the family, friends and supporters of Mark Duggan. Saturday 4 October 2014, 5-8pm North London Community Centre, 22 Moorefield Road, Tottenham, London N17 6PY Speakers include: Carole Duggan – Mark Duggan’s aunt Sean Hall – Mark Duggan’s brother Fidel Santigi – Justice 4 Mark Duggan Stafford Scott – Tottenham Rights Related links Justice 4
Detention under parliamentary scrutiny
A meeting to launch the London community submission to the APPG on Refugees and Migration detention inquiry. Tuesday 7 October 2014, 6pm Praxis Community Projects, Pott Street, London E2 0EF Speakers: John McDonnell – MP Lisa Matthews – Right to Remain Jerome Phelps – Detention Action RELATED LINKS Detention Action Right to Remain
The right to life under threat by the state
The London Campaign Against Police and State Violence annual conference. Sunday 12 October 2014, 1pm Richard Hoggart Building Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths (University of London), Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Programme includes: United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) Spoken word Related links Facebook event London Campaign Against Police