An emergency demonstration against violence towards migrants on the French-UK border. Sunday 14 February 2016, 12pm French Embassy, 58 Knightsbridge, London SW1X 7JT Related links Facebook event listing View a flyer here Read & sign a letter to French Ambassador here
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
London2Calais: refugee solidarity summit 2016
A meeting discussing questions of refugee migration, racism and oppression, imperialism, borders and free movement. Saturday 20 February 2016, 10.30-6pm Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University, London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Guy Smallman – photojournalist and filmmaker Abdulaziz Almashi – Syria Solidarity UK Mona Dohle – co-founder of London2Calais Related links Event details Get tickets here London2Calais
Organising to commemorate Grunwick’s
A meeting to plan a series of events to commemorate forty years since the Grunwick Strike, 1976-1978. Thursday 18 February 2016, 7pm Brent Trades Hall, 75 High Road, Willesden, London NW10 2JR Related links Facebook event listing Grunwick 40
Migrant Voice London Network meeting
A Migrant Voice meeting on new migration rules coming into effect from April 2016. Thursday 18 February 2016, 6-8.30pm Collaboration House, 77-79 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4PW Speakers include: Don Flynn Maria Fernandez Coll Related links Migrant Voice
Calendar of racism and resistance (15 – 28 January 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 13 January: Refugees including children are walking through Russia to Finland in temperatures of minus 30 degrees, according to reports. (Independent Barents Observer, 13 January 2016) 14 January: The Solicitors Regulation Authority announces a review
The human rights of migrants and refugees
The IRR provides evidence of the continued assault on human rights inherent within recent developments in asylum and migration law and policy. In a presentation to the Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner, in January 2016, IRR vice-chair and former immigration barrister Frances Webber documents the ongoing erosion of accountability in the field of migration and
Reparative histories of redress
The January 2016 issue of Race & Class is a special issue on the theme of ‘reparative histories’. In ‘Reparative histories: radical narratives of “race” and resistance’, Cathy Bergin and Anita Rupprecht, organisers of a conference on this theme in 2014, collect a series of essays investigating the complex interactions of history, race, agency, memory
Paul Robeson: anniversary event
An event to mark the fortieth anniversary of the death of Paul Robeson. Friday 12 February 2016, 6-8.30pm Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU Speakers include: Tayo Aluko – writer and performer of the award winning play – Call Mr. Robeson Hakim Adi – Black radical scholar Glenroy Watson – President of
Inquest into the death of Philmore Mills
The inquest into the death of Philmore Mills at Reading Town Hall. Monday 8 February 2016, 10am onwards Silverthorne Room, Reading Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, West Berkshire RG1 1QH RELATED LINKS Justice for Philmore Mills
West London History Day
A Labour Heritage event discussing key moments in Britain’s labour history. Saturday 20 February 2016, 1.45-4.40pm Ruskin Hall, 16 Church Road, Acton, London W3 8PP Speakers include: Steve Schifferes – The Glasgow Rent Strike, 1915 Mike Mecham – Labour and the Irish Revolution, 1916 Sujata Aurora – The Grunwick Strike, 1976-1977 RELATED LINKS Labour Heritage