A meeting to discuss issues around migration, free movement and how social justice groups can defeat poverty and social inequality. Thursday 9 June 2016, 6pm Global Justice Now, SOAS, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW Speakers: Liz Fekete – Director of the Institute of Race Relations Barbara Ntumy – student campaigner Dr Paolo Novak – Convenes
Theme: Employment
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 26 May 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 9 May: A 26-year-old Syrian refugee is shot in the kidney and wounded by Slovakian border guards on the border between Slovakia and Hungary, near the town of Velky Meder. The woman is in a
The IRR’s second big book giveaway
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites people to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday 16 June, 2-7pm. Unfortunately material cannot be
A call to action: supporting young people with precarious citizenship
An important conference on securing justice for young people with precarious citizenship is taking place in London on 1 June, organised by the Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit at Islington Law Centre in conjunction with Birkbeck College. What is precarious citizenship? Significant numbers of young people who are settled in the UK (estimated conservatively at
Statewatching Europe
A day conference on civil liberties, the state and the European Union. Saturday 25 June 2016, 9.45-5pm Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 Includes workshops and discussions on the refugee crisis in the Med and in the EU; mass surveillance; the EU’s crisis of legitimacy and accountability; the policing of protest and criminalisation
The populist Right and the crisis of democracy
A panel discussion analysing conservatism and the rise of the populist Right in the US and Europe. Monday 6 June 2016, 6.15-8pm Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9HS Speakers: Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror (Verso, 2014). David Edgar, playwright, political
Calendar of racism and resistance (22 April – 5 May 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 20 April: The Home Office announces that a new process for resettling unaccompanied asylum seeking children will commence in July. (Guardian, 21 April 2016) 21 April: The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman publishes: Independent investigation into
Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s
A British Academy conference on Civil Rights Documentary Cinema and the 1960s: Transatlantic Conversations on History, Race and Rights. 25-26 May 2016, 9.30am – 5.00pm The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Speakers include: John Akomfrah OBE – Smoking Dogs Films, documentary filmmaker and artist Dr Reece Auguiste – University of Colorado Eduardo
National Day of Action Against Detention Centres
Actions across the UK in a national day of action against detention centres. Saturday 7 May 2016 Brook House & Tinsley House, 3pm Colnbrook & Harmondsworth, 10-6pm (Assemble at SOAS at 10am) The Verne, from 12.45-1.45pm (bring things to make noise) and from 2.15pm in the town. Yarl’s Wood, from 6pm (including film projection, lights
The fourth London Radical Bookfair 2016
The London Radical Bookfair is a gathering of progressive readers, thinkers and doers in a celebration of radical publishing and politics. Saturday 7 May 2016, 12-6pm Goldsmiths Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross London SE14 6NW Related links Facebook event listing London Radical Bookfair