A demonstration to oppose the presence of neo-Nazi groups in Dover. Saturday 2 April 2016, 9.30am Port of Dover, Kent ME20 Related links Kent Anti-Racist Network Facebook event listing Facebook event for coach info
Theme: Climate
Calendar of racism and resistance (26 February – 10 March 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum 25 February: Home Office statistics reveal that the number of unaccompanied asylum seeking children has increased by over 50 per cent in the last year, with 3,043 children seeking asylum in 2015, compared with 1,945 in 2014.
Sites of Confinement: Confines, Control and Resistance at the Border
A day conference focused on the sites of confinement regarding migration, race, racism and physical, social and spatial bordering control. Thursday 17 March 2016, 9-6pm Campus Luigi Einaudi, University of Turin, Lungo Dora Siena 100/A-10154, Turin, Italy Speakers include: Antigone Association Monish Bhatia Victoria Canning Valeria Ferraris Evgenia Iliadou Simone Santorso Alvise Sbraccia No Borders
Between Hospitality and Violence: Migration and Racism in Europe
A seminar focused on the moral crisis of European identity. Tuesday 15 March 2016 from 5pm Leeds Beckett University, City Campus, Rose Bowl, Room 263, Leeds LS1 3HB Speaker: Liz Fekete – Director of the Institute of Race Relations Related links Book a place here
Grunwick 40 mural: community workshops at Dudden Hill Centre
Workshops run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Wednesday 13 April 2016, Wednesday 20 April 2016 and Wednesday 27 April 2016, 4.30pm Dudden Hill Community Centre, 19 Dudden Hill Lane London NW10 2ED Everyone aged 13 and above is
Grunwick 40 mural: community workshops at Willesden Library
A workshop run by an experienced mural artist to help the Grunwick 40 Committee design a mural to remember the forty years since the 1976 strike. Sunday 3 April 2016 and Saturday 9 April 2016, 10.30am-3.30pm Willesden Green Library, 95 High Road London NW10 2SF Everyone aged 13 and above is welcome. You don’t need
Lubomir Zubak, 1957 – 2015
Paul Polansky, author and Romani rights activist, remembers Lubomir Zubak who died on 23 December 2015. Lubomir Zubak, noted Romani rights activist in the Czech Republic in the 1990s, was the first to publicly call for the removal of the pig farm built over the WWII Roma concentration camp at Lety. His one-man demonstration carrying
Grunwick women who broke the mould
Today, on International Women’s Day, it is women like Jayaben Desai,[1] Kalben Patel and their fellow strikers that we should be remembering and honouring for their tenacity and courage. 23 August 2016 marks forty years since the start of the Grunwick strike. This dispute at the Film Processing Laboratory in Willesden, north-west London lasted for
Calendar of racism and resistance (12 – 25 February 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 February: Protests occur across Greece against the construction of registration and screening centres, or hotspots, for migrants. In Kos, after three days of protests, residents blockade an army camp earmarked for conversion into a migrant
The Corporate Greed of Strangers
John Grayson reveals the spread of corporate involvement in the provision of asylum housing in the UK and northern Europe, and how outsourcing and private companies are tarnishing Europe’s ‘welcome’ to refugees. A couple of weeks ago I was talking to two families in G4S housing[1] in Sheffield who arrived in the UK in September last