STAR’s annual national student conference on campaigning for asylum seekers and refugees. Saturday-Sunday 19-20 November 2011 Freedom from Torture, 111 Isledon Road, Islington, London N7 7JW The conference includes: Speakers Workshops A ‘Question Time’ panel Poster displays An exhibition of photographs from refugee women Related links Student Action for Refugees
Theme: Housing
Seminar on unlawful detention
A seminar for psychiatrists and psychologists on preparing medico-legal reports in unlawful detention cases. Wednesday 16 November 2011, 6pm Central London, venue to be confirmed Seminar led by: Jed Pennington – Bhatt Murphy Solicitors Hamish Arnott – Bhatt Murphy Solicitors Related links Medical Justice Bhatt Murphy Solicitors
The Black Presence in Renaissance Europe
A seminar by Michael Ohajuru. Tuesday 15 November 2011, 6-7.30pm Senate House, University of London, London WC1E 7HU Speaker: Michael Ohajuru Related links Black & Asian Studies Association
Woven Gold
A performance by the Woven Gold group – who are all clients of the Helen Bamber Foundation. Saturday 12 November 2011, from 6.45pm St Ethelburga’s, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG Woven Gold is made up of refugees escaping persecution who have come together in the last four years. With professional UK musicians who donate their
‘Enough is enough’ march
A march for black justice, black unity and against deaths in custody and state brutality. Saturday 12 November 2011, 1pm Windrush Square, Brixton, London SW2 1JG Related links Uhuru News
Defend education, fight privatisation
A demonstration against the scrapping of EMA, the raising of tuition fees and the privatisation of education. Wednesday 9 November 2011, 12pm University of London Union, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Related links National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
Mangrove Nine film
A screening of ‘Mangrove Nine’, directed by Franco Rosso. Tuesday 8 November 2011, 7pm Karibu Education Centre, 7 Gresham Road, Brixton, London SW9 7PH The film will be accompanied by discussion from: Linton Kwesi Johnson – George Padmore Institute Paul Reid – Black Cultural Archives Ian MacDonald, QC – immigration lawyer and barrister at the
The London Retired Teachers’ meeting
A discussion on the riots. Tuesday 8 November 2011, 11am-1pm The Cartwright Room in Canterbury Hall, near Hamilton House, in Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD Speakers include: Liz Fekete – Institute of Race Relations Celia Stubbs – on the report into the death of Blair Peach Joanne Sanderson – on becoming politically involved
Traveller solidarity meeting
A meeting of in-depth debate and discussion on ‘Dale Farm: Building the Traveller Solidarity Movement’. Saturday 5 November 2011, 11am Cityside House, 40 Adler Street, London E1 1EE Related links Traveller Solidarity
New writing on Cable Street
The 75th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street in Stepney, East London on 4 October, 1936, has provoked a batch of powerful books published by the Nottingham-based Five Leaves Press. The books celebrate the mass resistance of East Londoners, whose self-organised opposition prevented a march vaunted by Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists