My conversation with Colin was recorded in 2011. But I have been given the chance to update some of those ideas for this event on 18 April 2015. Neoliberalism is not working. All that stuff, about wealth trickling down, no society only individuals, the market as the regulator of everything, is shown to be false
Geography: South-West England
Calendar of racism and resistance (27 March – 9 April 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-Right politics 29 March: In the second round of French local elections, the Front National wins 22 per cent of the vote, securing 62 council seats. (In 2011, it won just one.) However it failed to take control
Immigration detention: signs of spring, or false dawn?
Campaigners have welcomed signs of movement around immigration detention – but celebration may be premature. In March 2015, the All-Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) on Refugees and Migration produced a strong report whose main recommendation, that immigration detention be severely curtailed and strictly time-limited, echoed the demands made for decades by detainee groups, campaigners and international
Catch history on the wing, buy your advance copy now!
A new film of A. Sivanandan, in conversation with Colin Prescod, entitled Catching History on the Wing will have its premiere at an event on 18 April and copies are now available for sale. A. Sivanandan is best known as a key thinker, writer and activist on racism and imperialism, the founder editor of Race
Dying for Justice
On Monday 23 March 2015, the Institute of Race Relations published Dying for Justice which gives the background on 509 people (an average of twenty-two per year) from BAME, refugee and migrant communities who have died between 1991-2014 in suspicious circumstances in which the police, prison authorities or immigration detention officers have been implicated. It concludes
Calendar of racism and resistance (27 February – 12 March 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 3 March: Serco suspends two staff members from Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre after the showing of a Channel 4 film, made undercover, on the treatment of detainees which revealed what the shadow home secretary called
Documenting casualisation
The TUC is seeking to interview black workers affected by the casualisation of the job market. Austerity measures affect the black community disproportionately and, just this week, figures were released which show that the number of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds, aged 16-24, that have been unemployed longer than a year has risen by
Handing in the JENGbA petition
Join JENGbA on a march to Downing Street to hand in its petition. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 2pm Assemble at Victoria Coach Station, 164 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9TP to march to Downing Street Related links JENGbA Facebook event page Change.org petition Download a flyer
National demonstrations against racism and fascism
National demonstrations across the UK on UN Anti-Racism Day. Saturday 21 March 2015, 12pm Assemble at 12pm at BBC Portland Place, London W1A 1AA Assemble at 11am at George Square, Glasgow Assemble 11.30am at Clare Gardens, Clare Street, Riverside, Cardiff Related links Download a flyer (PDF file, 845 kb) Facebook event page Stand Up To Racism
JRCT: promoting peace, justice and equality
Below we reproduce a letter to the editor published in The Times, on 11 March 2015, in support of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Dear Sir, Charities like the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) frequently work in complex and difficult environments to promote peace, justice and equality. They succeed because of their expertise and integrity in navigating these