A public meeting on Dangerous Surveillance: Drones, Data and Deprivation of Citizenship, including a screening of Dirty Wars and a discussion. Tuesday 5 August 2014, 7-9.30pm Council Chamber, Camden Town Hall, Judd Street, London WC1H 9JE Speakers include: Kat Craig – Reprieve and Vice-Chair of Haldane Society Alastair Lyon – Birnberg Peirce & Partners Mohamed
Theme: Health
Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan and the evidential approach to justice
A racialised justice system providing second-class protection to Muslims can be challenged. So rare is it to encounter a human, non-racist attitude to Muslims accused of support for terrorism, that a judge’s reasonable and evidence-based approach to the sentencing of Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan took everyone by surprise. On 17 July, Connecticut chief judge
The business of child detention
Below we reproduce an excerpt from an article in the current issue of Race & Class on the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market. As a principle, migrant children should not be subjected to detention. (Council of Europe, Commissioner for Human Rights)[1] At Barnado’s, we believe in
Death of Bangladeshi woman in police custody
A 30-year-old Bangladeshi woman has died in police custody in Walsall, West Midlands, shortly after being arrested. Sharmilla Ullah was detained on suspicion of shoplifting and taken to Bloxwich police station on 9 July. She became unwell whilst in custody and was taken to Walsall Manor hospital where she received treatment, before she was released
Surround Harmondsworth #3
A demonstration outside Harmondsworth detention centre. Saturday 9 August 2014, at 1pm Harmondsworth detention centre, Colnbrook By-Pass, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 0HB Speakers include: John McDonnell MP Current & ex-detainee’s Related links Facebook event listing Movement for Justice
Black Cultural Archives opens
An evening of cultural performances to celebrate the official opening of the Brixton-based Black Cultural Archives. Thursday 24 July 2014, 6-9pm Windrush Square, Brixton, London SW2 1EF Artists include: Akala Floetic Lara El Crisis Linton Kwesi-Johnson Alexander D Great to harmonic jazz saxophonist Lascelles James. Jonzi D and street dancers Rowdy Mechanikool Related links View details about the
Black justice campaigns prepare for new inquiry into undercover policing
Below we publish an edited version of the speech given by Suresh Grover, Director of The Monitoring Group and former coordinator of the Stephen Lawrence Family Campaign, at the parliamentary meeting ‘Police Corruption and racism: an endless legacy‘ on 23 June 2014. Why do the police treat anti-racist and black justice campaigns as though they are subversive
The business of child detention
The latest issue of Race & Class examines the consequences of the co-option of charities and voluntary organisations within the immigration detention market. In 2010 the British government announced that the outrage of child detention for immigration purposes was to end. Simultaneously, however, it commissioned the opening of a new family detention centre, CEDARS, which
Drama on the injustice of joint enterprise to be screened
A powerful drama to be aired on Sunday lays bare the injustice of joint enterprise. Common, by Jimmy McGovern, tells the story of a senseless murder in the north-west and the chain of events which follows, leading to the imprisonment of the innocent. While the drama focuses on how the doctrine of joint enterprise in
Films for justice at the BFI
‘Liberating Media’, an event, on Saturday 12 July at the British Film Institute (BFI) will highlight the work of Migrant Media. The day of film and discussion showcases the films of Migrant Media’s director-in-chief, Ken Fero – starting with an informal morning session, led by Fero, considering the work of Migrant Media and its youth