A screening of David Koff’s historic Blacks Britannica (1978) hosted by South London Anti-Fascists. Thursday 30 October 2014, 7pm Cinema (Room RHB 185), Goldsmiths University, London SE14 6NW Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about racism and the state today.
Theme: Health
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-16 October 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6
The nature of a society is exposed at its margins
This graphic account of the plight of the undocumented in Amsterdam first appeared on the web site Dreaming in Exile. Since 2012, a group of people from a number of countries have formed a group in Amsterdam called ‘We Are Here’. There are men and women, old and young. Some have been here for many years.
Screening of ‘Burn’
Screening of a new documentary film Burn by Migrant Media plus a Q&A. Monday 20 October 2014, 6pm King’s College, Strand Campus, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS Speakers include: Stephanie Lightfoot Bennett – Sister of Leon Patterson (United Families & Friends Campaign) Ken Fero – Director of Burn Harmit Athwal – (IRR) Related links Migrant
‘Hell on Earth’ – a new film on immigration detention
A compelling documentary by Standoff Films lays bare the horror of Campsfield immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire. When Injustice, Ken Fero’s pathbreaking 2001 documentary about black deaths in custody was recently re-shown on London’s South Bank, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw was part of the post-screening panel. Bradshaw, describing his shock when he first watched
The hopeful migrant
A personal account of the everyday problems encountered by one eastern European attempting to make a new life in the UK. I should have realised from the start that Elena lived in a fairy land with her God. I had broken my arm in the snow and we needed help in the house. She came
‘We revolt simply because … we can no longer breathe’
An impressive new film on the death of Mark Duggan, and the riots that followed, provides a welcome radical alternative narrative. Ken Fero’s new film, Burn, (dedicated to those who burn for justice) describes itself as a movie about memory. He asks ‘why Britain burns?’ and there are a variety of responses, but the consensus
Stop the expansion of Campsfield
A public meeting on the proposed expansion to Campsfield House immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire. Monday 20 October 2014, 7.30pm Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington OX5 1AB Speakers include: A former Campsfield detainee Kate Smart – Asylum Welcome Oxford Bill MacKeith – Campaign to Close Campsfield Related links Download a flyer (pdf file, 368kb) Campaign
Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry
A discussion with Dr. Richard Stone based on a reading from his recently published book of Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Tuesday 28 October 2014, 6.30-9pm Main Hall, Dominion Centre, 112 The Green, Southall, Middlesex UB2 4BQ Related links Hidden Stories home page Hidden Stories Twitter account Dr Richard Stone on Twitter Download
Institutional indifference – in life and death
The treatment of a homeless French man who died in immigration detention makes grim reading and shows up a callous system. On 26 September, nearly two years after the inquest, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) published a fatal incident report into the death on 6 December 2011 of an unnamed 40-year-old French man in