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
Theme: Climate
Kingsley Burrell inquest
The Kingsley Burrell Campaign are calling on people to attend the inquest into the death of Kingsley Burrell who died in Birmingham in March 2011 after being detained by the police. 7 April – 15 May 2015, the court usually sits from 10-5pm Birmingham Coroner’s Court, 50 Newton Street, Birmingham B4 6NE Related links Facebook event
Racist violence and British nationalism in Northern Ireland
The April 2015 issue of Race & Class argues that Northern Ireland’s BAME communities have been living the peace process in reverse. In 1971 British Home Secretary Reginald Maudling suggested that the situation in Northern Ireland amounted to ‘an acceptable level of violence’. During ‘the Troubles’, this became the de facto security policy of successive British governments
Levelling out racism
A community celebration of resistance to racism and fascism in the UK. Sunday 26 April 2015, 1-4pm The Level, Brighton BN1 4ZN Related links Brighton People’s Assembly Page Stop EDL Facebook event
Calendar of racism and resistance (27 March – 9 April 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-Right politics 29 March: In the second round of French local elections, the Front National wins 22 per cent of the vote, securing 62 council seats. (In 2011, it won just one.) However it failed to take control
Putting the ethics back into freedom of expression
The social landscape in which we practise our freedoms is highly volatile. Can we afford to be reckless? After the massacres in 2011 by the racist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, ‘we’ were all, briefly, Norwegian. It was a gesture of sympathy for the blameless casualties and solidarity for those suffering their loss. As with many
Oluwale Partnership Symposium
An event organised by the Oluwale Partnership in Leeds. Friday 17 April 2015, 9.30-4.30 Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University, Portland Crescent, Leeds LS1 3HB Speakers & performers include: Cllr Keith Wakefield (Leader, Leeds City Council) St George’s Crypt Sai Murray (Remember Oluwale Board member) Michelle Scally-Clarke Rommi Smith Ian Duhig Seni Seniveratne Royal Blood reggae
Catch history on the wing, buy your advance copy now!
A new film of A. Sivanandan, in conversation with Colin Prescod, entitled Catching History on the Wing will have its premiere at an event on 18 April and copies are now available for sale. A. Sivanandan is best known as a key thinker, writer and activist on racism and imperialism, the founder editor of Race
‘Where was our independence?’ The persistent questions about the IPCC’s Mark Duggan investigation
Last week the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) report into the death of Mark Duggan exonerated the officers involved – and was immediately condemned by the family as a ‘whitewash’. IRR News analyses previously unreleased internal documents that shed new light on the IPCC’s investigation in the immediate aftermath of the shooting. Documents released under
Calendar of racism and resistance (13 – 26 March 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Extreme-Right politics 16 March: Polish police seize live ammunition and weapons when they arrest thirteen neo-Nazis during coordinated raids across Poland. Connected to Blood & Honour and Combat 18, the neo-Nazis are charged with a variety of offences, such