A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 14 November: It is revealed that an unnamed language analyst working for Swedish firm Sprakab, is a convicted drug smuggler whose expert reports have been used to refuse asylum to hundreds in the UK.
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
Community monitor volunteer training
A training day on community monitoring of the police. Saturday 29 November 2014, 10.30-4pm Sustained Theatre Up North, Z-Arts Centre, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester M15 5ZA RELATED LINKS Northern Police Monitoring Project NETPOL
Inequality & broken politics in austerity Britain
A Counterfire discussion on how the left should respond to the big challenges and opportunities of modern politics. Tuesday 2 December 2014, 7.45-9.45pm Room G2, SOAS, University of London (main building), London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Danny Dorling – author of Inequality and the 1% Lindsey German – Counterfire Liz Fekete – Institute of Race Relations Chris Bambery –
Institutional Islamophobia
An IHRC conference to examine state racism and institutional Islamophobia. Saturday 13 December 2014, 2-6.30pm Rooms MAL 414 and 415, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX Speakers include: Malia Bouattia – Black Students’ Officer at the National Union of Students Marie Breen-Smythe – University of Surrey Les Levidow – Campaign Against Criminalising Communities Richard
The new face of local immigration enforcement
A MRN and RAMFEL public meeting to discuss the new wave of immigration enforcement. Friday 12 December 2014, 1.15-4pm Farringdon Room, St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Speakers include: • Don Flynn & Ruth Grove-White – Migrants’ Rights Network • Rita Chadha – RAMFEL • Sue Lukes – Migration, Equalities and Service Provision Specialist • Barbara Cohen –
Home Office contractors ‘expected to lie’, inspection reveals
Phil Miller of Corporate Watch examines a recent report[1] from the prison inspectorate on charter deportations from the UK. Security guards from Capita subsidiary Tascor were ‘expected to lie’ to people about being deported, raising the risk of self-harm, a new report by the Prison Inspector Nick Hardwick reveals. Guards were also ‘asleep for significant’ periods
Roma – fascism’s first victims, again
Anti-Roma violence draws strength from fascist ideas that linger on in mainstream European thought. On 15 September, a Roma man from Romania, homeless in Sweden, died of injuries sustained on 31 August, when a fire broke out at a Roma temporary tent camp in Högdalen, southern Stockholm. We will probably never know whether the man,
The slippery, cynical politics of asylum
At the start of the run-up to the 2015 election, John Grayson, a campaigner in South Yorkshire, examines the main political parties’ line on asylum. ‘The UK has a proud history of offering sanctuary to those who need it.’ A Home Office spokeswoman on Channel 4 News after the disclosure that the Home Office had
Calendar of racism and resistance (31 October-13 November 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 3 November: The trial of three G4S guards on charges of the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga, during a deportation in October 2010, begins at the Old Bailey. The court is told the guards repeatedly
‘A Man Standing’
A play written by former prisoner, Jean-Marc Mahy, about his experiences in solitary confinement. Friday 21 November 2014, 7.30pm Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Related links Download a flyer here (pdf file, 55 KB) Watch a preview Interview with Jean Marc Mahy An extract from A Man Standing Book tickets Facebook event