A report into the independence of the voluntary sector holds important lessons for groups struggling for funding and their very existence. The voluntary sector is under threat. So, who cares, you might reply, everything is up for grabs these days. It is not enough to throw up ones hands and see the demise of the
The Independent Commission on Mental Health and Policing is currently carrying out a consultation in the form of an online survey. The Commission was established in September 2012 by the Metropolitan police in response to the inquest verdict into the death of Sean Rigg in police custody. Sean Rigg died on the floor of Brixton
Kevin Searle’s ‘“Mixing of the unmixables”: the 1949 Causeway Green “riots” in Birmingham’ examines a hitherto unknown landmark in British race relations which throws into question standard accounts of postwar immigration. Most popular accounts begin with the arrival of Jamaican immigrants on the Empire Windrush, and place the 1958 disturbances in Notting Hill and Nottingham
Helen Hintjens, from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, reports from The Hague on the violent eviction of a refugee protest camp. …we are not people to be pitied, who need to be given shelter. We are demonstrators, who want to get our political message across, by staying visible to
An event in memory of David Oluwale, his life and death in the city of Leeds. Wednesday 23 January 2013, 6-7.30pm Memorial Garden, Water Lane, close to Leeds Bridge, Leeds LS11 5BW Line-up includes: New writings by Leeds Baggage Handlers & Rommi Smith and Leeds Young Authors & Khadijah Ibrahiim Accompanied by film, animation, food
Below we publish an edited version of an article that appeared in the Slough Times on a demonstration that took place at the end of December. On a dark and cold winter evening protesters campaigning for justice for the two men who died in Thames Valley Police’s custody held a peaceful vigil outside Slough police.
Two recent reports add fuel to growing demands to rethink indefinite immigration detention. On any given day between January and March 2012, 3,500 people were held in immigration detention, of whom over forty had been there for over two years: the equivalent of a four-year prison sentence, for being a refused asylum seeker, overstayer or
A joint candlelit vigil for Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah and Philmore Mills who both died after being arrested and restrained by police. Thursday 27 December 2012, 5-7:30pm Slough Police Station, Windsor Road, Slough Berkshire SL1 2HH The family of Philmore Mills will be marking the first anniversary of their father’s death in Wexham Park Hospital on
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last three months. Earlier this week, Kick it Out chair Herman Ouseley resigned from the Football Association (FA), describing the authorities’ efforts to fight racism in football in 2012 as ‘wasted in hypocrisy’. Lord Ouseley spoke of an ‘establishment [that] seemed to be looking after its
A review of the major development in initiatives against racial profiling in European policing. Black and Asian kids from poor neighbourhoods repeatedly stopped and searched by police in the UK, identity card checks on people of Muslim appearance in central Paris, or of Muslims outside mosques in Germany, round-ups of migrants without papers in Greece,
