A seminar on cults, racism and one family’s twelve years search for justice. Friday 22 May 2015, 9.30-4.30pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ The British inquest into the death of Jewish student Jeremiah Duggan in unexplained circumstances twelve years ago in Wiesbaden, Germany is to be held on the 19, 20 and 21st
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
Deaths in police custody and mental health
The Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum hold a discussion with Marcia Rigg from the United Families & Friends Campaign. Friday 15 May 2015, 7.15pm 365 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DA Related links Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum United Families and Friends Campaign Sean Rigg Justice & Change Campaign
Justice Behind Bars
A discussion on the topic of ‘Does the European Convention on Human Rights provide adequate human rights protection to UK prisoners?’ Tuesday 19 May 2015, 7-9pm 70 Grosvenor St, London W1K 3JP Panel members: Eric Allison – Prison correspondent for the Guardian Matthew Evans – Director, Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre Pete Weatherby QC
Calendar of racism and resistance (10 – 23 April 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 12 April: Four severed pigs’ heads are found on the doorstep of a community centre in Birmingham which is reportedly being used as a mosque. The incident comes a day after the windows of the building
Living to tell the tale
On 18 April, a celebration event of the work of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its Director Emeritus, Sivanandan, turned into a serious discussion on how to unite and strengthen struggles at a time of globalisation and austerity. Divided into three sessions – past, present, future – the packed afternoon covered a conspectus
33-year-old Pakistani man dies at Yarl’s Wood
On Monday 20 April, a man died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre (IRC) in Bedford, the third person to die there since it opened in November 2001.[1] The Guardian reported that the man died from a heart attack while being held in the family unit at Yarl’s Wood. Named as Pinakin Patel, the 33-year-old
One Minute in May
A campaign for a national one minute silence to confront the ever-growing threat of knife and gun crime. Friday 1 May 2015, 12pm Downing Street, Richmond Terrace, London SW1A 2JL Related links One Minute in May Facebook page
Licence to Kill
A recent community campaigning book from France on deaths in police custody shows just how alarmingly similar the French experience is to that in Britain. On 21 August 2014, Abdelhak Goradia (51), an Algerian undocumented migrant, died in a police van on his way to Roissy airport, near Paris, to be deported. A police spokesperson
‘The time is here to be seized’
My conversation with Colin was recorded in 2011. But I have been given the chance to update some of those ideas for this event on 18 April 2015. Neoliberalism is not working. All that stuff, about wealth trickling down, no society only individuals, the market as the regulator of everything, is shown to be false
Sunday School #5 – ‘Letter From Malmö’
A one-day exhibition taking place looking at culture and contemporary art in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Sunday 26 April 2015, 2-8pm A_SPACE, 38 Pentonville Road, London N1 9HF The exhibition features work by artists’ and creatives living in Malmö, ephemera, a talk (4pm) with artist Lisa Nyberg, (who has worked with the IRR to