Join War on Want for an evening of education, discussion and movement building with organisations working to combat the use of arbitrary detention, both in occupied Palestine and in the UK. Monday 8 May 2017, 7-9pm SOAS (room TBC), 10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG Representatives from: Adameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
DIY Cultures 2017
The annual DIY Cultures festival including exhibitions, new art commissions, workshops, contemporary craft, panel discussions, comics, illustration, video art, digital animation, poetry and music exploring DIY practice. Sunday 14 May 2017, 12-7pm Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Themes include: Radical mental health Introvert resistance Shy radicals Resisting crap jobs Four day
Good Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies
The London book launch of ‘Good Home? The Politics of Immigration Controversies’. Monday 15 May 2017, 6.30pm-8.30pm The Word Bookshop, 314 New Cross Road, London SE14 6AF Speakers include: Dr Suzanne Hall (LSE) Rita Chadha Hannah Jones Yasmin Gunaratnam Gargi Bhattacharyya Sukhwant Dhaliwal WIlliam Davies Kirsten Forkert Emma Jackson Roiyah Saltus Related links Book here
The Politics of Racism: A Symposium for John Solomos
A symposium to honour the work and friendship of John Solomos and the Ethnic and Racial Studies Collective. Saturday 6 May 2017, 10-6.30pm Room B01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, 2 Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX Speakers include: Claire Alexander Les Back Alice Bloch Parminder Bhachu Chetan Bhatt Gargi Bhattacharyya David Theo Goldberg Clive Harris
UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN) AGM and launch
The UK Race and Europe Network (UKREN) are hosting their AGM and UK launch of the European Network against Racism (ENAR) shadow report on migration and racism. Thursday 4 May 2017, 2-5pm Chartered Institute of Public Relations, 52-53 Russell Square, London WC1B 4HP Speakers include: Ojeaku Nwabuzo – Senior Research Officer at ENAR. Alan Anstead
Calendar of racism and resistance (7 – 20 April 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 April: A new immigration skills charge comes into force, requiring employers to pay a £1,000 annual levy for hiring certain skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. It is feared the charge could
Narratives that marginalise: from Ferguson to Palestine
The April 2017 Race & Class tackles two key current themes: the impact of Fox News in (mis)representing news and creating racist discourses, and the way in which Canadian ‘neoliberal multiculturalism’ is marginalising Arabs, Muslims and those in solidarity with Palestine. Colleen Mills, researcher into racism and hate crime at John Jay College of Criminal
Calendar of racism and resistance (24 March – 6 April 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration March: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) publishes a factsheet on immigration detention, download it here (pdf file, 95kb). 11 March: Campaigners protest outside Morton
How the Right framed the Westminster attacks
The Westminster attacks provided the occasion for anti-immigration, anti-refugee politicians the world over to vindicate their positions in the public narrative. It was not just Britain First and the English Defence League which tried to make political capital out of the deadly attacks in Westminster on 22 March. UK-based politicians and international figures were not
Grievance as identity
David Goodhart’s new book calls for an understanding of ‘majority grievances’ , which, he argues, represent ‘decent populism’ not racism. Remember the story about the blind men and the elephant? Each one feels the thing in front of him and finds something different: one man felt the ears: ‘this is a fan’; one felt the