A new play about racial tensions in 1980s South London. Tuesday 26 February to Saturday 23 March 2013, 7.30pm Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE Related links Soho Theatre
Theme: Climate
Spotlight on racial violence: January-February 2013
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last two months. Last week David Cameron said he was ‘disturbed’ to hear that the proposed building of a small mosque in his Witney constituency had been cancelled as a result of racist threats to burn it down. It should not, however, have been that much
Facing up to racial violence
The IRR publishes a report today on how racial violence is shaping the UK. Racial violence: facing reality warns that attacks on BME individuals are actually spreading to new areas of the country, as under the impact of globalisation and austerity measures, populations swiftly change; and points to the potential dangers in ‘decanting’ those affected
Culture of disbelief? Why race discrimination claims fail in the Employment Tribunal
As the European Court partially vindicates employees’ rights to manifest their religion at work, and with coalition measures set to make access to justice more difficult for all employees, employment lawyer, historian and activist David Renton discusses the added difficulties for those bringing race discrimination claims. On 15 January, the European Court upheld the claim
The Hague: refugees evicted from protest camp
Helen Hintjens, from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam, reports from The Hague on the violent eviction of a refugee protest camp. …we are not people to be pitied, who need to be given shelter. We are demonstrators, who want to get our political message across, by staying visible to
Spotlight on racial violence: October-December 2012
An overview of racist attacks and convictions over the last three months. Earlier this week, Kick it Out chair Herman Ouseley resigned from the Football Association (FA), describing the authorities’ efforts to fight racism in football in 2012 as ‘wasted in hypocrisy’. Lord Ouseley spoke of an ‘establishment [that] seemed to be looking after its
TCAR meeting
A public meeting organised by Tyneside Community Action against Racism (TCAR) to discuss ways of organising against racism. Saturday 26 January 2013, 12-5pm St John Baptist Church Hall, Grainger Street, Newcastle NE1 5JG Speakers include: Frances Webber – IRR Vice Chair John Grayson – SYMAAG Tom Vickers – FRFI supporter and author Raul Ally –
Which way forward on racial profiling?
A review of the major development in initiatives against racial profiling in European policing. Black and Asian kids from poor neighbourhoods repeatedly stopped and searched by police in the UK, identity card checks on people of Muslim appearance in central Paris, or of Muslims outside mosques in Germany, round-ups of migrants without papers in Greece,
Where anti-Muslim sentiment leads
Mainstreamed anti-Muslim sentiment creates the climate for attacks and harassment. Condemning the presence of Muslims in Britain is now routine. Media darling and quintessentially English TV chef Clarissa Dickson-Wright (full name Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright) wrote in her new book (published a few months ago) of her terror, when once visiting
Cartoon and article deemed racist by NGO
Below we reproduce a letter from the editor of the Travellers’ Times to the Metro newspaper on a recent racist article and cartoon on Gypsies. ‘Presumably you expected Richard Herring’s piece ’Beware the gipsy (sic) curse‘ (Metro, 9 November 2012) to raise cheap laughs, but we Romany Gypsies, and those who work with us, would