Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land

Seventy years since the Empire Windrush carried hundreds of migrants to London, hear the Caribbean voices behind the 1940s headlines. Why did people come? What did they leave behind? And how did they shape Britain? Friday 1 June – Sunday 21 October 2018 Entrance Hall, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB Related links British Library Windrush exhibition

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Populism, People and the Media

This seminar aims to advance understanding of the political economy of ‘populism’ and to examine the role of traditional media in promoting, investigating or resisting ‘populism’. Wednesday 30 May 2018, 9-6pm,  Goldsmiths, University of London, 8 Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Speakers  include: Miriyam Aouragh Michaela Benson Joan Pedro Caranana Liz Fekete Natalie Fenton

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Comment

JENGbA responds to the Amnesty International report on the Gangs Matrix

Below we reproduce Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association’s (JENGbA) statement on the recent Amnesty International report on the Gangs Matrix. JENGbA welcomes the damning Amnesty International report that highlights the government’s racist, bogus war on gangs. The Met’s gang-mapping database, known as the Gangs Matrix, lists individuals as ‘gang nominals’ with each given an automated violence

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (4 – 16 May 2018)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 8 April: Corporate Watch publishes The Hostile Environment: turning the UK into a nation of border cops, download the report here.  30 April: Ismael Bokar Deh, 58, a father of eight in France for 18 years

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Review

Excessive use of restraint during charter deportation flight 

A new report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons on an inspection of a 2017 charter flight deporting people to third countries makes for horrifying reading. The report, Detainees under escort: Inspection of a Third Country Unit removal to France, Austria and Bulgaria, which is only seventeen pages long, is full of disturbing information on

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Press Release

Police database spreads institutional racism

The IRR welcomes Amnesty International and The Monitoring Group’s recent reports on the racially discriminatory nature of the Metropolitan Police Service’s Gangs Matrix intelligence database. The fact that the Information Commissioner’s Office has launched an investigation into whether the Metropolitan Police Service Trident Gangs Matrix breaches the Data Protection Act is welcome, but the dangers

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Comment

Screwed by the system

Lord Herman Ouseley writes for IRR News on the findings of a recent Amnesty International report on the Gangs Matrix. By October 2017, there were 3,806 individuals on the Gangs Matrix, 87 per cent of whom were Black, Asian and of a minority ethnic background, 78 per cent of whom were black. Amnesty International spent

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (20 April – 3 May 2018)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 14 April: The trial of the Stansted 15, who face terror-related charges for grounding a deportation charter flight, is adjourned until 1 October 2018. View details of a crowdfunder for the defendants here. 18 April:

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Comment

Remember David Oluwale and Stephen Lawrence

Tomorrow, on 4 May, it will be forty-nine years since the body of David Oluwale was pulled from the River Aire, Leeds in 1969. And nearly two weeks ago, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was marked. Both deaths were watershed moments  and synonymous with racism in different ways.

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Review

New book on the No Colour Bar exhibition

A new book on the 2016 No Colour Bar exhibition is now available. No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990, documents how the exhibition came to fruition and all those involved. The book reproduces images of the art featured at the exhibition by seminal black artists alongside archive material — leaflets, journal and

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