Below we reproduce a call from the Edge Fund for people to join its Advisory Group to help make it truly representative. The Edge Fund was initiated by a group of philanthropists and activists in early 2012 to explore how funds could be distributed so as to devolve the power of donors and create real
The launch of a report about refugees and asylum seekers’ experiences of forced labour in England. Tuesday 2 July 2013, 3-5pm Hurley House, 1 Dewsbury Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS11 5DQ RELATED LINKS Precarious lives
A week of action and events across the UK. Saturday 8 June – Saturday 15 June 2013 Locations across London Related links StopG8 Network StopG8 Network on Facebook StopG8 Network on Twitter Calendar of events
In the blizzard of coalition measures wreaking destruction on living standards, the justice ministry’s proposals on legal aid will once again bear down hardest on poor BME, Muslim and migrant communities. From the introduction of a residence test for civil legal aid, to the withdrawal of public funding for challenges to mistreatment in prison and
A protest organised by Stop G4S outside the annual general meeting of G4S. Thursday 6 June 2013, 1pm Salters’ Hall, 4 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5DE Related links Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook Facebook event listing Download a flyer here
The second convergence of the Stop G4S campaign. Saturday 6 April 2013, 11-6pm Room 3B, University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Workshops include: Contract procurement Contract monitoring G4S’ partners Shareholders Related links Download a copy of the agenda Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook
IRR News continues its discussion with A. Sivanandan about Miliband’s policies. Have you changed your view in any way given Miliband’s party political broadcast and Yvette Cooper’s speech on 7 March? You seemed in December to have some hopes that Labour under Miliband might be somewhat more progressive. (Read the interview here: ‘Miliband’s progress?‘) No
It is poverty not migration that is changing the nature of Britain’s towns and cities. If you want to feel and smell austerity, go to Hatfield – in leafy Hertfordshire, with the rolling hills that EM Forster loved. It provides a microcosm of the changing social geography of Britain today.[1] Hatfield was, until the 1990s,
A report into the independence of the voluntary sector holds important lessons for groups struggling for funding and their very existence. The voluntary sector is under threat. So, who cares, you might reply, everything is up for grabs these days. It is not enough to throw up ones hands and see the demise of the
As the European Court partially vindicates employees’ rights to manifest their religion at work, and with coalition measures set to make access to justice more difficult for all employees, employment lawyer, historian and activist David Renton discusses the added difficulties for those bringing race discrimination claims. On 15 January, the European Court upheld the claim
