A press conference by the family of Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah on the Crown Prosecution Service decision on charging the officers involved in his death. Tuesday 12 August 2014, 6-8pm Arts4Every1 Centre, Desborough Road, High Wycombe HP11 2PU RELATED LINKS Facebook event listing Justice For Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah’ Justice For Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah’ on Facebook
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
Brent Anti Racism Campaign meeting
A meeting on a new Home Office immigration operation, called Operation Skybreaker, which will be targeting Brent (and four other London boroughs). Wednesday 13 August 2014, 7pm Brent Trades Hall (Apollo Club), 375 High Road, London NW10 2JR (next to Willesden bus garage, 5 mins from Dollis Hill tube). Speakers include: RAMFEL (Refugee and Migrant Forum of Essex
Call for apology and inquiry into police spying
This week the mother of Ricky Reel launched a petition following revelations that her family was spied upon, along with a number of others, as they campaigned for justice in the ‘90s. Mrs Reel is the mother of Ricky who was 20-years-old when he was found dead in the River Thames after being racially abused
A global witch hunt! Media narratives, racial profiling and the Roma
A recently-published report by Ireland’s Ombudsman for Children puts the media’s power to influence state action under the spotlight. Last year, while the world’s media was shocked by an apparent case of child abduction by a Roma family in Greece, Ireland’s police took two blonde-haired children from their dark-haired Roma parents, following tip-offs from the
Mark Duggan vigil
A vigil for Mark Duggan on the third anniversary of his death. Monday 4 August 2014 Assemble at Broadwater Farm at 5pm to march to Ferry Lane, Tottenham Hale, London N17 for a vigil at 6pm Related links See Facebook event listing Justice For Mark Duggan
Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan and the evidential approach to justice
A racialised justice system providing second-class protection to Muslims can be challenged. So rare is it to encounter a human, non-racist attitude to Muslims accused of support for terrorism, that a judge’s reasonable and evidence-based approach to the sentencing of Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan took everyone by surprise. On 17 July, Connecticut chief judge
Death of Bangladeshi woman in police custody
A 30-year-old Bangladeshi woman has died in police custody in Walsall, West Midlands, shortly after being arrested. Sharmilla Ullah was detained on suspicion of shoplifting and taken to Bloxwich police station on 9 July. She became unwell whilst in custody and was taken to Walsall Manor hospital where she received treatment, before she was released
March and rally for the abolition of joint enterprise
A march and rally organised by the Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA). Saturday 26 July 2014, assemble at 12pm at Holles Street, next to BHS in Oxford Street, London WC1C 1DL To march to Hyde Park for a picnic Related links Facebook event listing JENGbA website JENGbA blog JENGbA on Twitter
Surround Harmondsworth #3
A demonstration outside Harmondsworth detention centre. Saturday 9 August 2014, at 1pm Harmondsworth detention centre, Colnbrook By-Pass, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0HB Speakers include: John McDonnell MP Current & ex-detainee’s Related links Facebook event listing Movement for Justice
Black justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
Below we publish an edited version of the speech given by Suresh Grover, Director of The Monitoring Group and former coordinator of the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign, at the parliamentary meeting ‘Police Corruption and racism: an endless legacy‘ on 23 June 2014. Why do the police treat anti-racist and black justice campaigns as though they are subversive