A rally to demand justice for Ricky Bishop, who died in police custody in 2001. Saturday 23 November 2013, 1pm Brixton police station, 367 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DD RELATED LINKS Download a flyer here
Theme: Climate
Resisting injustice, recovering truth
A Race & Class meeting on Hillsborough and family campaigns for justice. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 7pm London School of Economics, Clements House (CLM 2.02, Second floor), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2A Main speaker: Phil Scraton – primary author of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Report Chaired by Robert Reiner – Professor of Criminology, Queens University
Powell family’s police complaint upheld
Ten years from his death, the family of Mikey Powell have won a victory in their fight to expose the truth about the role of West Midlands police in Mikey’s death. Last week, the family confirmed that the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) had upheld their complaint that the report made to the West Midland
‘Collective expulsion’ report launch
The launch of a new report, Collective expulsion: the case against Britain’s mass deportation charter flights. Wednesday 20 November 2013, 7pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ Including: Report launch Workshop with legal practitioners and campaigners RELATED LINKS Corporate Watch Stop Deportation
Sheffield murder highlights risks faced by night-time economy workers
The recent stabbing of Thavisha Lakindu Peiris exposes the dangers facing BME workers in the night-time economy, and is the latest such attack to have proved fatal. Significant media attention has focused on Thavisha Lakindu Peiris’s death, in Sheffield on Sunday 27 October. As widely reported, at about 9.50pm the 25-year-old man delivered one last
Gypsies in Thurrock face eviction and suffer abuse and harassment
Gypsies living in Thurrock, Essex are fighting against eviction and harassment by local residents. The Gypsies, members of the West, Birch and Newland families, have been living on a site in Grays, Essex, for the past eight months. They say that their lives have been made increasingly difficult by harassment from local residents, compounded by
Roma voices
A meeting hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, on racism and discrimination. Monday 28 October 2013, 5pm House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA RELATED LINKS Europe Roma International Read an IRR News Story: ‘Roma Voices‘.
Race, class and the IRR
A session at this year’s Historical Materialism conference on the work of A. Sivanandan, Race & Class and the Institute of Race Relations. Sunday 10 November 2013, 12pm SOAS, 10 Thornhaugh St, London WC1H 0XG Panel includes: Avery Gordon – in conversation with A. Sivanandan (recorded) Jenny Bourne – on revolution and reconstruction Colin Prescod
Race and racism in a post-racial age
The annual Claudia Jones Lecture – on race and racism since the murder of Stephen Lawrence. Monday 28 October 2013, 7pm Thomsons Reuters HQ Auditorium, 1st Floor, 30 South Colonnade, London E14 5EP Speaker: Nicola Rollock – Centre for Research and Education RELATED LINKS Centre for Race and Education
Fighting for truth and justice
The latest edition of Race & Class includes Professor Phil Scraton’s account about the fight for truth around the Hillsborough Disaster of 1989. Last year, the Hillsborough Independent Panel released its findings into the Hillsborough tragedy that cost ninety-six people their lives, in which it catalogued an institutional cover-up that denied the voice of the