A conference on getting racism back on the agenda. Thursday 8 May 2014, 6-9pm Abbey Centre, Westminster, London SW1P 3BU
Theme: Alternative voices on integration
Framing the death of Mark Duggan
As the family of Mark Duggan launch a judicial review of the inquest verdict, IRR News examines the wider context of the death. On 4 August 2011, Mark Duggan got out of a taxi on Ferry Lane in Tottenham and was shot dead by armed police: within hours, stories about a dramatic ‘shootout’, a ‘violent
Joint enterprise: The long and winding road to reform
A review of a new report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Injustice is simple, but legal reform is complex – that is the message, if you read between the lines, of this new report from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism which focuses on homicide convictions arising out of the legal doctrine of joint enterprise.
How violent is Britain?
‘How Violent is Britain?’ is a one-day conference bringing together campaigners, academics, key public figures and journalists to explore how we should tackle institutional state and corporate violence in Britain. Friday 16 May 2014, 9.30-5pm Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool Speakers include: Moazzam Begg – Cage Prisoners Alan Brecknell –
March for the wrongly imprisoned
The Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association Campaign (JENGbA) is marching for those ‘wrongly imprisoned’. Saturday 3 May 2014 London: assemble at 10am at Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU Manchester: assemble 12pm at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester M1 Related links View a flyer JENGbA JENGbA on Twitter JENGbA
‘Never ever, never ever give up’
A reflection on deaths that took place on 15 April 1989 and the state’s response. As a teenager I watched the Hillsborough tragedy unfold on the telly. It was a Saturday afternoon and my sisters and I were doing our chores or homework. I remember one of my sisters calling us and we crowded around
Spotlight on racial violence: January – March 2014
An overview of acts of domestic terror against Muslims and racist attacks in the first three months of 2014. The ‘global war on terror’ has for some time now been over, according to leading politicians and some political commentators. Given that many of its hallmarks are still in operation, such a claim could easily be
Spotlight on racial violence: Northern Ireland
An overview of racist attacks and convictions in Northern Ireland: January – March 2014. On the eve of the new year, the British mainstream media was awash with headlines anticipating the end of the seven-year long transitional restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian migrant workers on 1 January 2014. Press reporters and photographers lined airport baggage
The weight of words
The latest issue of Race & Class assesses popular debate around issues involving the far Right in Europe. In ‘The weight of words: the freedom of expression debate in Norway‘, Sindre Bangstad, an affiliate researcher at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo, explores the philosophical and political underpinnings of the freedom of expression debate
Christopher Alder memorial vigil
A vigil and meeting in memory of Christopher Alder, who died in police custody in 1998. Saturday 5 April 2014, 1pm Vigil: Hull Combined Court, Lowgate, Hull HU1 2EZ Meeting at 2pm: Unison Office, 39 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AG