What are the implications of the ground-breaking report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel for the families of those who die in police, prison and psychiatric custody? Yesterday, David Cameron issued an apology to the families and victims of the Hillsborough tragedy: ‘With the weight of the new evidence in this report, it is right for
The life and work of a dynamic anti racism campaigner was recently celebrated in Dublin. Anti racism and refugee rights campaigners, past and present, gathered on 6 September in Dublin to celebrate the life and work of Josephine Olusola Olapeju Olajumoke Amuwo, whose untimely death occurred in London this August. Although she had been based
A recent publication on policing from rightwing think-tank Civitas extends its attack on anti-racism into a ‘white victimhood’ thesis. Civitas’ latest pamphlet, Mind-Forg’d Manacles by ex-Labour Councillor Jon Gower Davies, is an attempt to bury once and for all Macpherson’s finding of institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police Service. It argues that this finding has
I found myself in a tearful state on my first visit to ‘The Robinson Institute’ exhibition, curated by artist Patrick Keiller in the main hall at Tate Britain – moved to tears, but wearing a big grinning smile on my face. I’ve been back several times now and I’ve had that ‘tears of joy’ moment
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) does not seem to be aware of its own policy on forced marriage. In June the prime minister announced a new initiative to tackle the menace of forced marriage setting out the government’s intention to create specific criminal offences for perpetrators and to devote half a million pounds to an
A conference examining the experiences of separated children seeking asylum and the challenges faced by professionals supporting them. Wednesday 19 September 2012, 9.30-4.30 Tavistock Centre, 120 Belsize Square, London NW3 5BA Speakers: Dr Maggie Atkinson – Children’s Commissioner, England Judith Dennis – Refugee Council Gillian Hughes – Tavistock Centre Zubier Yazdani – Deighton Pierce Glynn
Annual meeting of the No One Is Illegal campaigning group. Saturday 15 September 2012, 1-5.30pm 6 Boulter Street, Oxford OX4 1AX Agenda and topics for discussion iclude: Government attack on ‘foreign’ students UKBA crackdown ESOL EDL, UKIP, Daily Mail et al Fighting back – trends and developments in migrant resistance Killing migrants – the Mediterranean
A day and evening of political meetings, film, poetry, comedy and music to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Love Music Hate Racism. Saturday 15 September 2012, 1pm-1am Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Speakers & performers include: Paul Gilroy Salma Yaqoob Ken Livingstone Eddie Freeman Liz Fekete Christine Blower Mark Serwotka Martin
A family have thanked Sussex police for tracking down a soldier who nearly killed their teenage son in a vicious unprovoked racist attack. One drunken punch was all it took to put 15-year-old Mohammed ‘Mo’ Bourner in a coma: a punch of such sheer ferocity that his head smashed first into a car bonnet and
Garden Court Chambers in conjunction with the Institute of Race Relations is hosting a showing of Ken Fero’s Who Polices the Police?, followed by a panel discussion. Friday 5 October 2012, 6-9pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ Sean Rigg dies in a caged area of Brixton Police Station in August 2008
