A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 19 June: The Independent Police Complaints Commission will consider whether the ethnicity or the mental health of a 33-year-old prisoner injured in a cell influenced the actions of six officers involved in his restraint, resulting in
A screening of ‘Working Illegally’ which looks behind the closed walls of UK border enforcement to expose the reality of immigration detention. Thursday 23 July 2015, 6.30pm The Stretch, Goldsmiths Students’ Union, Dixon Road, New Cross SE14 6NW The screening will be followed by a discussion between Aderonke Apata (a former detainee at the Yarl’s
The central message from an important new book is that combating corruption needs to be placed at the centre of social justice campaigns. Writing in the Huffington Post in June 2015, prime minister David Cameron called on world leaders to learn lessons from the FIFA scandal and ‘break the taboo on talking about corruption’. From
A. Sivanandan updates his thinking on globalisation, impact of the market state and the stirrings of rebellion. ‘The spaces are there for us to fight back in, and the time is here to be seized’. RELATED LINKS Read about the event here
Session three of of an event celebrating the work of the Institute of Race Relations on 18 April 2015. The future: Building on communities of dissent: premiere of film Catching History on the Wing: a conversation with A Sivanandan followed by audience/panel interaction led by Suresh Grover (The Monitoring Group) and Phil Miller (Corporate Watch), moderated
Session one of an event celebrating the work of the Institute of Race Relations on 18 April 2015. The past: Thinking in order to do – an audio interview ‘On lived theory’ with A. Sivanandan; discussion with Colin Prescod and Jenny Bourne about the IRR’s historic struggle, followed by contributions from the floor. Related links Read
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice 4 June: The IPCC refuses to identify two retired police officers who are being investigated in connection with allegations that they spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence. Three people were named last year
How do we build on communities of dissent, asks veteran Black activist A. Sivanandan in a short film released this week by Sage Publications alongside a collection of his key writings in Race & Class. A. Sivanandan, IRR Director Emeritus, is one of the UK’s key thinkers on racism, imperialism, black identity and political struggle. His grounded theory
Art and performance around the campaign for justice for Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9, divestment from corrupt fuel companies, and diaspora responses to climate migration and destruction across the world. Saturday 27 June – Monday 29 June 2015 Locations across Durham Related links Facebook event listing Footprint Modulation: art, climate and displacement Download a flyer
A national demonstration organised by the People’s Assembly Against Austerity calling for an alternative to austerity. Saturday 20 June 2015, 12-5.30pm Bank of England, Queen Victoria Street, The Poultry, London EC2R 8EJ Related links People’s Assembly Against Austerity event listing Facebook event
