On 18 April, a celebration event of the work of the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) and its Director Emeritus, Sivanandan, turned into a serious discussion on how to unite and strengthen struggles at a time of globalisation and austerity. Divided into three sessions – past, present, future – the packed afternoon covered a conspectus
On Monday 20 April, a man died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre (IRC) in Bedford, the third person to die there since it opened in November 2001.[1] The Guardian reported that the man died from a heart attack while being held in the family unit at Yarl’s Wood. Named as Pinakin Patel, the 33-year-old
A campaign for a national one minute silence to confront the ever-growing threat of knife and gun crime. Friday 1 May 2015, 12pm Downing Street, Richmond Terrace, London SW1A 2JL Related links One Minute in May Facebook page
A recent community campaigning book from France on deaths in police custody shows just how alarmingly similar the French experience is to that in Britain. On 21 August 2014, Abdelhak Goradia (51), an Algerian undocumented migrant, died in a police van on his way to Roissy airport, near Paris, to be deported. A police spokesperson
My conversation with Colin was recorded in 2011. But I have been given the chance to update some of those ideas for this event on 18 April 2015. Neoliberalism is not working. All that stuff, about wealth trickling down, no society only individuals, the market as the regulator of everything, is shown to be false
A group of activists are creatively protesting against the effects of the Immigration Act 2014 on migrants’ access to NHS services. On 6 April 2015, new immigration health surcharges came into force under the Immigration Act 2014. These surcharges affect non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals who come to the UK to work, study, or visit their
A one-day exhibition taking place looking at culture and contemporary art in the city of Malmö, Sweden. Sunday 26 April 2015, 2-8pm A_SPACE, 38 Pentonville Road, London N1 9HF The exhibition features work by artists’ and creatives living in Malmö, ephemera, a talk (4pm) with artist Lisa Nyberg, (who has worked with the IRR to
The Kingsley Burrell Campaign are calling on people to attend the inquest into the death of Kingsley Burrell who died in Birmingham in March 2011 after being detained by the police. 7 April – 15 May 2015, the court usually sits from 10-5pm Birmingham Coroner’s Court, 50 Newton Street, Birmingham B4 6NE Related links Facebook event
A fundraising concert with The Crossings Band and Pikey Beatz in aid of Peace in Mind. Sunday 10 May 2015, 7-11pm World Headquarters Club, Curtis Mayfield House, Carliol Square, East Pilgrim Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne NE1 6UF Related links Facebook event listing Peace of Mind
A protest following the recent deaths of 700 African migrants in the latest loss of a ship crossing from Libya to Europe. Saturday 25 April 2015, 1-2pm European Commission in the UK, 32 Smith Square, London SW1P 3EU Related links Facebook event listing Movement Against Xenophobia Stop the War Coalition BARAC UK (Black Activists Rising Against
