A bike ride to Calais to get bikes and other provisions to refugees in Calais. Saturday 29 August – Monday 31 August 2015 London-Calais (see website for further details) Related links Critical Mass London Read more about the bike ride on Rabble
Theme: Housing
Remembering Claudia Jones
A presentation of the findings of the Claudia Jones Research Project, as part of the Malcolm X Summer Festival. Saturday 12 September 2015, 6.30pm Black Cultural Archives, Windrush Square, London SW2 1EF Related links See the event page on Facebook Download a flyer for the event here
Preserving Britain’s Black heroes
Below we reproduce a review of a new exhibition, ‘No Colour Bar’, which was previously published in The Voice. A new exhibition breathes life into a story of struggle and activism that is truly home-grown. We often view Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X as having ascended the mountain-top of black achievement and activism.
Inquiring into police accountability and spying on family campaigns
On 16 July, the Home Office announced an inquiry into undercover police spies and their activities monitoring family campaigns and spying on protestors. Below we produce a statement by The Monitoring Group[1] which has been supporting some of the families whose campaigns were infiltrated by the police. The Monitoring Group welcomes the spirit and substance
Eat together, fight together, remember together
Solidarity also means remembering. A few weekends ago, I attended an ‘Eat Together, Fight Together’[1] picnic at Burgess Park in south London organised by the London Campaign Against Police and State Violence and Housing Action Southwark and Lambeth. Campaigners and activists enjoyed the sun, good food and conversation in a gathering not fraught with political imperatives
Public order broadcasting: ‘The Met’ and the press
A critical analysis of the BBC’s ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary about the Metropolitan police. In what has been billed as an unprecedented move, in early 2014 Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe allowed a BBC camera crew an access-all-areas pass to film the force as it carried out its routine policing of London. In a commentary for
The prognosis for medical justice after 10 years
The tenth Medical Justice annual general meeting, Thursday 30 July 2015, 6.30pm Doughty Street Chambers, 53-54 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LS Speakers: Simon Israel – Home Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News Alison Pickup – barrister, Doughty Street Chambers Dr Juliet Cohen – Freedom from Torture Stephanie Youdom Tonmi – ex-detainee Related links Medical Justice
FoodFight – Resistance is Fertile
A free five-day course, organised by the Voices That Shake, on art, race, media and power to explore the idea that resistance is fertile. Monday 3 August – Friday 7 August 2015 We are Spotlight, 30 Hay Currie Street, E14 6GN London The course will include: Interactive workshops, dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for
Remembering Jean Charles de Menezes – ten years on
Join the family of Jean Charles de Menezes to mark the tenth anniversary of his death on 22 July 2005. Wednesday 22 July at 9.30-11am Stockwell underground station, Clapham Road, London SW9 9AE Related links Newham Monitoring Project (NMP) Facebook event listing
Self defence or a licence to kill?
When we look at the figures of young African Americans shot dead, some might comfort themselves with the mantra ‘thank goodness our police forces, unlike those of the US, are not routinely armed’. But look at our record of BAME killings when they are armed. In just the last few years, Azelle Rodney was shot