IRR News speaks to Lord Ouseley about his twenty years of kicking racism out of football. When Herman Ouseley set up Let’s Kick Racism out of Football over twenty years ago, one of the driving factors was the rawness and frequency of racist abuse forcing people away from the game. ‘Football had become a game
There is more to the Tories’ proposals on human rights and free movement than mere electioneering. The October 2014 Conservative party conference was dominated by justice minister Chris Grayling’s announcement that a future Conservative government will repeal the Human Rights Act, replace it with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, and ignore unwelcome rulings
A debate on ‘Immigration and the 2015 General Election’ and a private view of the Black Chronicles exhibition. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 6.30-9pm Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA Speakers include: Peter Herbert – Society of Black Lawyers Ratna Lachman – JUST West Yorkshire Don Flynn – Migrants’ Rights Network Tim Wigmore – New Statesman Related
A Race & Class discussion on the co-option dilemma for charities and voluntary organisations in asylum and immigration policing. Thursday 27 November 2014, 6-8pm Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS Speakers: Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University) and author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain Frances Webber (Vice chair,
A screening of David Koff’s historic Blacks Britannica (1978) hosted by South London Anti-Fascists. Thursday 30 October 2014, 7pm Cinema (Room RHB 185), Goldsmiths University, London SE14 6NW Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about racism and the state today.
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6
This graphic account of the plight of the undocumented in Amsterdam first appeared on the web site Dreaming in Exile. Since 2012, a group of people from a number of countries have formed a group in Amsterdam called ‘We Are Here’. There are men and women, old and young. Some have been here for many years.
A personal account of the everyday problems encountered by one eastern European attempting to make a new life in the UK. I should have realised from the start that Elena lived in a fairy land with her God. I had broken my arm in the snow and we needed help in the house. She came
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting the key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees September: The ECtHR rules that conditions for migrants detained in a number of Greek police stations and immigration detention centres are so bad that they amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in two
A commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay tragedy as part of Camden Migration Festival. Saturday 4 October 2014, 1pm, talk and short film, 2pm, showing of Ghosts (Nick Broomfield) The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, London NW1 7NL Speakers include: Diana Yeh – University of Winchester Steve Lau – Chinese in Britain
