Dear IRR News subscriber, This week IRR News focuses on the media. We draw your attention to the latest broadcast of Race & Class radio; Avery Gordon is joined by guests Bill Rolston, discussing the mural paintings of Gaza, and Sabrina Alimahomed on Homeland Security and private profit in the US. We also have news
Drama on the injustice of joint enterprise to be screened
A powerful drama to be aired on Sunday lays bare the injustice of joint enterprise. Common, by Jimmy McGovern, tells the story of a senseless murder in the north-west and the chain of events which follows, leading to the imprisonment of the innocent. While the drama focuses on how the doctrine of joint enterprise in
Race & Class Radio: murals in Palestine; US Homeland Security
The latest broadcast of Race & Class Radio is now available to download. In the current broadcast of Race & Class Radio, Avery Gordon and Elizabeth Robinson are joined by guests Bill Rolston, discussing the mural paintings of Gaza, and Sabrina Alimahomed on the revolving door between public order and private profit in the US. Bill
Films for justice at the BFI
‘Liberating Media’, an event, on Saturday 12 July at the British Film Institute (BFI) will highlight the work of Migrant Media. The day of film and discussion showcases the films of Migrant Media’s director-in-chief, Ken Fero – starting with an informal morning session, led by Fero, considering the work of Migrant Media and its youth
The truth behind the murder of Blair Peach?
Thirty-five years after East London teacher Blair Peach was murdered by the Metropolitan police at a demonstration against the racist National Front in Southall in April 1979, the struggle to determine the exact circumstances and perpetrators of his death still continues. David Renton’s finely argued and profoundly persuasive pamphlet, Who killed Blair Peach?, makes a crystalline
We are not extremists. We are Sweden
An incisive new campaigning video attacks the equation of anti-racism with extremism. Human rights defenders connected to Swedish anti-racist group Linje 17 mot rasism (Line 17 Against Racism) have found a novel way of lobbying for change. In a terse film, entitled #viärsverige 2014 – sluta normalisera rasismen! (#WeAreSweden 2014 – Stop Normalising Racism!), of just
IRR News 21 – 26 June 2014
Dear IRR News subscriber, On 16 June, the 799th anniversary of Magna Carta, the Prime Minister demanded the promotion of British values, with democracy, respect for the rule of law and individual liberty, and respect for others’ beliefs at their heart. This week, Frances Webber shows how these values are irrevocably damaged by the combination of
Justice vanishes: the erosion of the rule of law
The ability to secure justice has been irrevocably damaged by the combination of secret trials, trials involving secret evidence, and the continuing legal aid cuts – affecting the rule of law itself. The ‘Trojan Horse’ affair has given us a definition of ‘British values’ – in a document for school governors issued by the Department
Ali Aarrass case highlighted in international ‘Stop Torture’ campaign
Protesters gathered outside the Moroccan embassy to demand the release of Ali Aarrass. At around 11 o’clock on 26 June, around fifty people stood outside the Moroccan Embassy, holding placards calling for ‘Justice for Ali’ and photographs of Ali Aarrass. The protesters chanted ‘Morocco: stop torture now!’ and ‘Ali Aarrass: we are with you!’ The picket was
IRR News 13 – 20 June 2014
Dear IRR News subscriber, This week, Andy Shallice lays bare the impact of new measures to restrict the rights of EU migrants, particularly the Roma. And the IRR’s European researchers home in on Swiss asylum policy, describing the institutional neglect and exclusionary policies that characterise its detention system. And in news from across the UK,