A course on social media and digital activism Tuesdays and Thursdays 18 October – 1 December 2011, 6-8pm Saturday 29 October and 12 November 2011, full day sessions Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum Resource Centre, 2 Thorpe Close, London W10 5XL Sample modules: Online health Digital economy Creating a blog Engaging with local and national
Theme: Education
Attila the Stockbroker
A benefit gig for the Campaign to Close Campsfield. Saturday 15 October 2011, 8pm East Oxford Community Centre, 44b Princes Street, Oxford OX1 4HU Acts: Attila the Stockbroker The Knights of Mentis Related links Campaign to Close Campsfield
Vigil for Jimmy Mubenga
A vigil to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Jimmy Mubenga. Friday 14 October 2011, 12-1.30pm Crown Prosecution Service, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS A year after his death Jimmy’s family are still waiting for the police to finish their investigations and for the CPS to consider bringing charges against
Anti-deportation training
A training workshop on starting an anti-deportation campaign. Monday 10 October 2011, 7pm Quaker Meeting House, St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW Guest speaker: Michael Collins – National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns Related links Sheffield Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns
Tamil returns: ‘UKBA is not aware of any difficulties’
The deportation of up to fifty Tamil refused asylum seekers to Sri Lanka on a charter flight on 28 September once again focused attention on what happens to those returned to torturing states, and who monitors them. The charter flight went ahead in the teeth of warnings of torture from organisations including the Sri Lanka
Migrants, the media and the message
A conference for those working with migrants and wishing to engage with the media and give migrants a voice. Thursday 6 October 2011, 11am-5pm Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund Offices, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7PB Programme includes: The launch of an online media toolkit A showcase of the work carried out
Positive Action in Housing AGM
The sixteenth annual general meeting of the Glasgow based charity Positive Action in Housing. Friday 16 September 2011, 11am Glasgow City Chambers, George Square, Glasgow G2 1DU Speakers: Chair: Jelina Rahman – Positive Action in Housing Arthur West – Friends of Refugees Ayrshire Fariha Thomas and Amina Muslim – Women’s Resource Centre Jo Haythornthwaite –
Double standards in MLRs
The treatment by Home Office decision-makers and immigration judges of expert medical reports comes under scrutiny and is found wanting in a new report from Freedom from Torture. This report, Body of evidence: treatment of medico-legal reports for survivors of torture in the UK asylum tribunal, documents the common ways in which expert medical reports
Three deaths in immigration detention
Is it significant that two people have been found dead in two different detention centres in as many days – and three have died in a month? All that the Home Office will confirm is that on Sunday 31 July ‘A 35-year-old male being held at Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre died’ and that it is
Deportation reconstruction as aid to action
An overseas student reviews an unflinching film by augenauf, a Swiss human rights organisation, re-enacting a deportation. To my mind, many of those who support anti-racism, multiculturalism, asylum seekers and refugees speak from an easy, privileged, white, middle-class position. Hence, it is often pity that they feel towards BME communities and asylum seekers rather than