The annual general meeting for befrienders of asylum seekers and refugees. Wednesday 7 March 2012, 7pm All Saints Church, Commercial Road, Portsmouth PO1 4BT Speaker: Frances Webber – Institute of Race Relations Related links Haslar Visitors Group
Theme: Health
Action for ESOL manifesto launch
Launch of the Action for ESOL Manifesto. Saturday 3 March 2012, 12pm UCU head office, Carlow Street, London NW1 7LH Related links Action for ESOL
Vigil for Philmore Mills
A vigil to mark the two-month anniversary of the death of Philmore Mills who died in Wexham Park hospital after being restrained by Thames Valley police. Friday 2 March 2012, 7-8.30pm Slough Police Station, Windsor Road, Slough, Berkshire SL1 2HH Related links View a map Justice for Philmore Mills View the Facebook events listing Read
Whitening community cohesion?
A controversial report from a cohesion think-tank suggests it is time the white working class was given a hearing. From Roger Hewitt’s justification of the racism of white youths in the 1990s as territorial struggle, to a study of London’s East End a few years ago describing hostility towards Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities
Platform for prejudice
A recent TV programme on the English Defence League (EDL), created around an extremely problematic and dangerous framework, has won new recruits to the EDL. The EDL is boasting about its new recruits since Channel 4 aired Proud and Prejudiced on Monday 27 February, a documentary based on the shadowing for one year of Luton-based
A lost opportunity for survival: the death of Reece Staples
A solicitor at Harrison Bundey in Leeds explains how, had police officers taken a young black man, who had swallowed packets of drugs, straight to hospital, he might still be alive. On 20 February 2012, an inquest jury returned a verdict of misadventure on Reece Staples, who was 19 when he died in police custody
The big society: the good, the bad and the unequal?
A conference to critique the big society and suggest solutions to challenges facing society. Wednesday 29 February 2012, 11-4pm The Midland Hotel, Forster Square, Bradford BD1 4HU Speakers: Ed Cox – IPPR Rob Berkeley – Runnymede Trust Anna Coote – New Economic Foundation Toby Blume – Urban Forum Related links Download a flyer (pdf file,
Community wrecker of the year award
Tony Ball, leader of Basildon council, was nominated for two very different awards for his role in the eviction of Travellers from Dale Farm. The eviction of hundreds of the Dale Farm Travellers last October was a mass, state-sanctioned programme of enforced homelessness. More than eighty families were forced from a piece of land which
ASAP destitution awareness day
The Asylum Support Appeals Project is hosting destitution awareness day. Monday 27 February 2012, 1.30-5.30pm Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG In addition there will be an AGM at 6pm followed by food, wine and music. Related links Asylum Support Appeals Project
Stop deportations public meeting
A meeting to make links with organisations in Peckham to help build a movement against the detention and deportation of migrants. Saturday 25 February 2012, 3-5pm Peckham Library, second floor, 122 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JR Related links London No Borders Stop Deportation Network