A commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay tragedy as part of Camden Migration Festival. Saturday 4 October 2014, 1pm, talk and short film, 2pm, showing of Ghosts (Nick Broomfield) The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, London NW1 7NL Speakers include: Diana Yeh – University of Winchester Steve Lau – Chinese in Britain
Geography: South-East England
Claudia Jones memorial lecture
The National Union of Journalists’ annual Claudia Jones lecture: ‘Take me to your leader: the crisis in leadership in BAME Britain’. Thursday 16 October 2014, 6.30pm Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5 Speaker: Patrick Younge – broadcaster/journalist Related links Book a ticket here NUJ
No One is Illegal gathering
Gathering of the No One is Illegal group. Sunday 19 October 2014, 1-5 pm The Common House, Unit 5E, 5 Pundersons Garden, Bethnal Green, London E2 9QG Related links No One is Illegal
Screening of ‘Burn’
Screening of a new documentary film Burn by Migrant Media plus a Q&A. Friday 17 October 2014, 6-7.30pm Lecture Theatre B04, Birbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Speakers include: Marcia Rigg – Sister of Sean Rigg Minkah Adofo – United Families & Friends Campaign Ken Fero – Director of Burn Related links
2014 Eve Saville memorial lecture
A lecture on ‘Policing in Britain: Corruption, Surveillance and Institutional Racism’. Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 6.15-8.30pm St. Martin’s Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ Related links Event details and registration here Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Who Killed Blair Peach? pamphlet launch
Launch of a new pamphlet on the murder of Blair Peach. Thursday 2 October 2014, 6-8pm NUT HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD Speakers include: • David Renton – author and barrister • Christine Blower – NUT General Secretary • Suresh Grover – The Monitoring Group • Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett – United Families & Friends Campaign • Susan
The Exotic Body in 19th-century British Drama
A two-day conference on the representation of the ‘exotic body’ in British drama. Thursday 25 – Friday 26 September 2014 Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, St Cross Building Manor Road, Oxford OX1 3UL Keynote speakers: Ross Forman – Warwick Peter Yeandle – Manchester Hazel Waters – Institute of Race Relations Related
Po Po and Burn
A film showing of two films (by Ken Fero/Migrant Media) on family campaigns following deaths in police custody. Friday 26 September 2014, 7.30-10pm Portobello Pop Up Cinema, 3 Acklam Road, London W10 5TY The two films are: Po Po on the death of Jason McPherson and Burn on the death of Mark Duggan, followed by
When class becomes a commodity
A new Open Society Foundations research project on Europe’s white working class provides a welcome corrective to those who champion the class as a victim of immigration while colluding in the abandonment of working-class areas. In his classic text examining production processes Labor and Monopoly Capital, published in 1974, Harry Braverman showed how ‘poverty and
Calendar of racism & resistance (27 August – 4 September 2014)
A calendar of stories from the last week. Asylum seekers & refugees 27 August 2014: Medical Justice has published a report: Biased and Unjust: The Immigration Detention Complaints Process, you can download it here (pdf file, 6.4mb). 29 August: 44-year-old Wadih Chourey, who has Down’s syndrome, faces deportation to Lebanon after the Home Office refused