A StopWatch panel and audience discussion on stop and search. Tuesday 17 March 2015, 5.30-8pm Committee Room 10, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA Speakers include: Diane Abbott MP Professor Ben Bowling Related links Register here via Eventbrite StopWatch
Theme: Employment
National demonstrations against racism and fascism
National demonstrations across the UK on UN Anti-Racism Day. Saturday 21 March 2015, 12pm Assemble at 12pm at BBC Portland Place, London W1A 1AA Assemble at 11am at George Square, Glasgow Assemble 11.30am at Clare Gardens, Clare Street, Riverside, Cardiff Related links Download a flyer (PDF file, 845 kb) Facebook event page Stand Up To Racism
JRCT: promoting peace, justice and equality
Below we reproduce a letter to the editor published in The Times, on 11 March 2015, in support of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Dear Sir, Charities like the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) frequently work in complex and difficult environments to promote peace, justice and equality. They succeed because of their expertise and integrity in navigating these
Calendar of racism and resistance (13 February – 26 February 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 11 February: The family of a man whose neck was found to be broken after he was arrested by police call for the officers involved to be suspended. Julian Cole, 21, was left in a
Flemming Rose and the absence of empathy
An account of the Danish Muhammad cartoon crisis by one of its main instigators, the cultural editor of the paper which published them, Jyllands-Posten, is unsurprisingly lacking in self-awareness or understanding of his targets, says Danish anthropologist Peter Hervik. To a great extent, many of the stories touched upon by Flemming Rose in The Tyranny
Calendar of racism and resistance (30 January – 12 February 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 30 January: Anthony Long, the ex-police officer accused of the murder of Azelle Rodney during a police operation in April 2005, appears in court and pleads not guilty. (BBC News, 30 January 2015) 30
Counter-terrorism policy and re-analysing extremism
Below is an edited transcript of a talk given by Arun Kundnani, author of ‘The Muslims are coming: Islamophobia, extremism and the domestic war on terror’, in January 2015, shortly after the Paris killings. The situation we find ourselves in is not entirely new. Most of what we’ve seen over the last few days is
The Great British Values Disaster – education, security and vitriolic hate
Educationalists Bill Bolloten and Robin Richardson discuss the impacts of the ‘fundamental British values’ (FBV) agenda. The time is late January 2015. The place is a university campus somewhere in England. ‘Kill Islam,’ says a piece of graffiti scrawled in big red letters on one of the university’s buildings, ‘before it kills you’. ‘How do I feel?’
‘Apologists for terrorism’: dissent and the limits of free expression
Freedom of thought, expression and inquiry is under renewed threat from governments which, paradoxically, claim to be fighting to preserve freedom of expression in Europe. The ongoing case of a Belgian prison teacher issued with a work ban on national security grounds, and other disturbing cases of exclusion and criminalisation that have occurred in France
Calendar of racism and resistance (16 – 29 January 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 15 January: The Independent recounts the story behind the death of Pawel Koseda, a homeless Polish migrant, who was found dead impaled on the railings of a church in Kensington in October 2014. (Independent, 15