A protest at the Home Office on International Migrants Day. Thursday 18 December 2014, 6.30pm Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF Related links Facebook event listing
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Justice4Paps vigil
A vigil for Habib ‘Paps’ Ullah, who died in High Wycombe police custody, on what would have been his birthday. Saturday 20 December 2014, 5pm High Wycombe police station, Queen Victoria Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP11 1BE The vigil will also remember all those people who have died at the hands of the police and
Calendar of racism and resistance (14 – 27 November 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 14 November: It is revealed that an unnamed language analyst working for Swedish firm Sprakab, is a convicted drug smuggler whose expert reports have been used to refuse asylum to hundreds in the UK.
Neglect and indifference kill American man in immigration detention
A Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) report on Brian Dalrymple’s six weeks in immigration detention paints a grim picture of how the vulnerable are treated. Although Dalrymple was a white man, we report on his case to show that, in immigration detention, immigration status ensures a grim equality of treatment. The report, Investigation into the death of a
Inequality & broken politics in austerity Britain
A Counterfire discussion on how the left should respond to the big challenges and opportunities of modern politics. Tuesday 2 December 2014, 7.45-9.45pm Room G2, SOAS, University of London (main building), London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Danny Dorling – author of Inequality and the 1% Lindsey German – Counterfire Liz Fekete – Institute of Race Relations Chris Bambery –
Institutional Islamophobia
An IHRC conference to examine state racism and institutional Islamophobia. Saturday 13 December 2014, 2-6.30pm Rooms MAL 414 and 415, Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX Speakers include: Malia Bouattia – Black Students’ Officer at the National Union of Students Marie Breen-Smythe – University of Surrey Les Levidow – Campaign Against Criminalising Communities Richard
Health and social care for BME communities
A Race Equality Foundation and JUST West Yorkshire information event on changes to health and social care. Wednesday 10 December 2014, 1-4pm Bradford Related links Download a flyer here (pdf file, 213kb) Register via Eventbrite Race Equality Foundation Just West Yorkshire
The new face of local immigration enforcement
A MRN and RAMFEL public meeting to discuss the new wave of immigration enforcement. Friday 12 December 2014, 1.15-4pm Farringdon Room, St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Speakers include: • Don Flynn & Ruth Grove-White – Migrants’ Rights Network • Rita Chadha – RAMFEL • Sue Lukes – Migration, Equalities and Service Provision Specialist • Barbara Cohen –
Media training session
Migrant Voice is holding a free media training session for migrants. Tuesday 2 December 2014, 3-8pm Migrant Voice, Lighthouse West London, 111-117 Lancaster Road, London W11 1QT Speakers include: Niki Anastasopoulou – news and documentary producer Daniel Nelson – Oneworld.net Henri-Pierre Koubaka – Radio journalist Related links Migrant Voice Migrant Voice on Facebook Migrant Voice on Twitter
Home Office contractors ‘expected to lie’, inspection reveals
Phil Miller of Corporate Watch examines a recent report[1] from the prison inspectorate on charter deportations from the UK. Security guards from Capita subsidiary Tascor were ‘expected to lie’ to people about being deported, raising the risk of self-harm, a new report by the Prison Inspector Nick Hardwick reveals. Guards were also ‘asleep for significant’ periods