A showing of Ken Fero’s Burn at the BFM International Film Festival. Saturday 4 July 2015, 7.30pm Bernie Grant Art Centre, Town Hall Approach Road, Tottenham Green, London N15 4RX Related links BFM International Film Festival Buy tickets here
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
Spinning the death of Sheku Bayoh
Following the death of Sheku Bayoh last month, police used the decades-old tactic of attacking a victim’s character in a suspicious custody death. On 3 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh, a gas engineer from Sierra Leone, died on the street in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He had been restrained by up to nine police officers responding to an
Dangerous Times Festival
A weekend of subversive ideas and discussions. Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2015, 9am to 5pm Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA The programme includes: Islamophobia: why are Muslims under siege? – Liz Fekete (IRR) and Feyzi Ismail Malcolm X and the violence of the oppressed – Tariq Ali A state
Building on communities of dissent
How do we build on communities of dissent, asks veteran Black activist A. Sivanandan in a short film released this week by Sage Publications alongside a collection of his key writings in Race & Class. A. Sivanandan, IRR Director Emeritus, is one of the UK’s key thinkers on racism, imperialism, black identity and political struggle. His grounded theory
Eat together, fight together
A picnic organised by Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth and London Campaign Against Police and State Violence. Saturday 4 July 2015, 12-4pm. Burgess Park, 285 Albany Road, London SE5 0AN Related links Facebook Event Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth (HASL) Campaign Against Police and State Violence (LCPSV)
Rally for Kingsley Burrell
A rally calling for the hearing into police misconduct in the Kingsley Burrell case to be held in public. Monday 22 June 2015, 9.30am Tally Ho West Midlands Police Training Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7RD Related links Facebook event Justice for Kingsley Campaign
End austerity now
A national demonstration organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity calling for an alternative to austerity. Saturday 20 June 2015, 12-5.30pm Bank of England, Queen Victoria Street, The Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ Related links People’s Assembly Against Austerity event listing Facebook event
Will the government’s counter-extremism programme criminalise dissent?
The third of a post-election three-part series on civil liberties in the UK examines the government’s new proposals to tackle extremism. From 1 July, a broad range of public bodies – from nursery schools to optometrists – will be legally obliged to participate in the government’s Prevent policy to identify would-be extremists. Under the fast-tracked
Race & Class Radio: ‘Living the peace process in reverse’
The latest Race & Class radio is now available. The latest Race & Class radio broadcast features contributors to the April 2015 issue, Robbie McVeigh and Maryam Griffin. Robbie McVeigh discusses the criminal justice system’s response to racist violence in Northern Ireland by way of ‘empty models’ of ‘hate crime’ and ‘good relations’. People of colour
‘Hell is a very small place’
Below we reproduce an interview with Jean Casella from the US-based Solitary Watch by Luk Vervaet, first published on his blog. Although solitary confinement is not used as frequently as in the US, the UK has four close supervision centres.[1] A recent Prisons & Probation Ombudsman report highlighted the high number of suicides of those prisoners held in