Join activists, grassroots groups and migrant campaigners to learn more about what’s wrong with our immigration system and explore practical ways of taking action. Thursday 28 June 2018, 6-9pm Malet Suite, Student Central, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HY Participants include: Docs Not Cops Migrants Organise Schools Against Borders for Children Let Us Learn Liberty
Theme: Education
Calendar of racism and resistance (17 May – 7 June 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 May: Canada grants political asylum to Viktória Mohácsi, a former Hungarian MEP and Roma rights activist. After exposing police incompetence in the Roma serial killers case, Mohácsi received constant threats and sought police protection.
The spiralling dynamic of fear – and how to fight it
Frances Webber reviews Corporate Watch’s new report: ‘Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment’. The central thesis of this closely argued and compelling report, Who is immigration policy for? The media-politics of the hostile environment, is that the purpose of tough immigration policies is not to control immigration – ‘deterrent’ policies don’t
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land
Seventy years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London, hear the Caribbean voices behind the 1940s headlines. Why did people come? What did they leave behind? And how did they shape Britain? Friday 1 June – Sunday 21 October 2018 Entrance Hall, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Related links British Library Windrush exhibition
Calendar of racism and resistance (4 – 16 May 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: Corporate Watch publishes The Hostile Environment: turning the UK into a nation of border cops, download the report here. 30 April: Ismael Bokar Deh, 58, a father of eight in France for 18 years
Excessive use of restraint during charter deportation flight
A new report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons on an inspection of a 2017 charter flight deporting people to third countries makes for horrifying reading. The report, Detainees under escort: Inspection of a Third Country Unit removal to France, Austria and Bulgaria, which is only seventeen pages long, is full of disturbing information on
Calendar of racism and resistance (20 April – 3 May 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 14 April: The trial of the Stansted 15, who face terror-related charges for grounding a deportation charter flight, is adjourned until 1 October 2018. View details of a crowdfunder for the defendants here. 18 April:
Remember David Oluwale and Stephen Lawrence
Tomorrow, on 4 May, it will be forty-nine years since the body of David Oluwale was pulled from the River Aire, Leeds in 1969. And nearly two weeks ago, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was marked. Both deaths were watershed moments and synonymous with racism in different ways.
Paris: still on the streets
The abject failure of French President Macron to carry out his promise to get refugees ‘off the streets, out of the woods’ by the end of 2017 is highlighted in the latest report by Refugee Rights Europe (RRE). Still on the Streets: Documenting the situation for refugees and displaced people in Paris, France, presents statistical
Exhibition of art by foreign national prisoners
An exhibition of striking artwork by refugees and migrants held in prison for deportation. Friday 4 May 2018 The Fishslab Gallery, 11 Oxford Street, Whitstable CT5 1DB Related links Facebook event listing