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Calendar of racism and resistance (11 – 25 March 2020)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe News stories related to coronavirus have been compiled in a separate calendar, view here. ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 10 March: The Guardian reports on a former British army sergeant whose two sons are England rugby internationals, who

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Calendar of racism and resistance (26 February – 11 March 2020)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 1 March: As the 3million, a group representing EU citizens in the UK, and other campaigners claim that vulnerable people are still ‘struggling to apply’ to the EU settlement scheme, and that

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The criminalisation of identity in Prevent and anti-gangs initiatives

Join us for an important seminar that will explore the criminalisation of identity in Prevent and anti-gangs initiatives.  Speakers will discuss a) the ways Prevent and anti-gangs initiatives, used in schools youth centres and beyond, pathologise and criminalise working-class black youth and Muslims and b) how this structural racism suppresses expressions of multiculturalism, forcing conformity

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Joint Enterprise Demonstation 25 March

JENGbA will be handing in their Private Members Bill to the House of Commons demading legislation to overturn the hundreds of wrongful convictions under joint enterprise.  Meeting on: 25 March 2020 and 2pm  At: Victorica Coach Station London (nearest tube Victoria) more information: find more information about JENGbA’s work at the website for more information

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Calendar of racism and resistance (12-26 February 2020)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe ASYLUM AND MIGRATION Asylum and migration rights 11 February: Italy’s senate lifts League leader Matteo Salvini’s immunity from prosecution, ensuring he will face trial on charges of false imprisonment arising from the standoff last year when he prevented the

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‘I’d rather be dead than poor’: knife crime in London

How can the Mayor of London’s approach to knife crime work, when the structural causes of knife crime are not being fully addressed? A review of recent government and GLA initiatives. The number of knife and gang-related homicides in London has surged since 2014. And young black men are overrepresented as victims and perpetrators of

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Viva Declaration!

Join Tagné + Kooj for a performance of global-jazz music and live-mixed video about migration and borders. Using poetic visuals and documentary sequences against a musical landscape Viva Declaration! connects migration with colonial history, economics, political and environmental conflicts, human rights, contemporary protest and campaigns for migration justice. The critical questions and vivid emotions have never been so

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Psychological coercion in the hostile environment

Join us for a crucial seminar that will explore both the coercive and the exploitative sides of the government’s hostile environment policies. Speakers will discuss a) the operations of a coercive psychological programme which stigmatises migrants and asylum seekers as ‘scroungers’ and ‘bogus’ and b) how hostile environment policies create profits for the state, through

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Remember and Resist: borders, solidarity & the essex 39

A day of talks and workshops exploring the voilence of borders and global capitalism, following the deaths of the 39 vietnamese migratns in a lorry in essex. Panel discussions on: The Political Economies of the Border and Undoing Borders, Building Solidarity Workshops: Anti-Raids Workshop from Haringey Anti-Raids, on having conversations about migrant solidarity  and a

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