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
Dear IRR News subscriber, On 14 February, Dan Uzan, who was providing security for a bat mitzvah party at Copenhagen’s main synagogue, was gunned down. The perpetrator, Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, had previously fired dozens of rounds into a cultural centre where the Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks was discussing Islam and free speech, killing the film director Finn Nørgaard in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 11 February: The family of a man whose neck was found to be broken after he was arrested by police call for the officers involved to be suspended. Julian Cole, 21, was left in a
Recent Freedom of Information requests have revealed that the Home Office has paid over quarter of a million pounds to the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph in 2014, for sponsored articles, advertorials and digital advertising. Last year, a number of advertorials were published in the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph which were sponsored by
An account of the Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis by one of its main instigators, the cultural editor of the paper which published them, Jyllands-Posten, is unsurprisingly lacking in self-awareness or understanding of his targets, says Danish anthropologist Peter Hervik. To a great extent, many of the stories touched upon by Flemming Rose in The Tyranny
Everyone should read a recent report by the National Coalition of Independent Action (NCIA) on the ways in which neoliberal policies are destroying the purpose and politics of voluntary groups. From time to time IRR News has commented on the ways in which privatisation, subcontracting and marketisation are infiltrating voluntary groups in the race and
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 30 January: Anthony Long, the ex-police officer accused of the murder of Azelle Rodney during a police operation in April 2005, appears in court and pleads not guilty. (BBC News, 30 January 2015) 30
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, IRR News focuses on issues of vital importance to all those who engage with young people from BME communities and do not want to see them further marginalised and criminalised. We lead with an essay by two educationalists who have just guest-edited, with others, a special issue of Race Equality
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
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
