A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting the key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees September: The ECtHR rules that conditions for migrants detained in a number of Greek police stations and immigration detention centres are so bad that they amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, in two
Theme: Housing
Mark Duggan public meeting
A public meeting organised by the family, friends and supporters of Mark Duggan. Saturday 4 October 2014, 5-8pm North London Community Centre, 22 Moorefield Road, Tottenham, London N17 6PY Speakers include: Carole Duggan – Mark Duggan’s aunt Sean Hall – Mark Duggan’s brother Fidel Santigi – Justice 4 Mark Duggan Stafford Scott – Tottenham Rights Related links Justice 4
Detention under parliamentary scrutiny
A meeting to launch the London community submission to the APPG on Refugees and Migration detention inquiry. Tuesday 7 October 2014, 6pm Praxis Community Projects, Pott Street, London E2 0EF Speakers: John McDonnell – MP Lisa Matthews – Right to Remain Jerome Phelps – Detention Action RELATED LINKS Detention Action Right to Remain
The right to life under threat by the state
The London Campaign Against Police and State Violence annual conference. Sunday 12 October 2014, 1pm Richard Hoggart Building Cinema, Richard Hoggart Building, Goldsmiths (University of London), Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Programme includes: United Families & Friends Campaign (UFFC) Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) Spoken word Related links Facebook event London Campaign Against Police
Unfinished journeys: a remembrance
A commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Morecambe Bay tragedy as part of Camden Migration Festival. Saturday 4 October 2014, 1pm, talk and short film, 2pm, showing of Ghosts (Nick Broomfield) The Forge, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden, London NW1 7NL Speakers include: Diana Yeh – University of Winchester Steve Lau – Chinese in Britain
Claudia Jones memorial lecture
The National Union of Journalists’ annual Claudia Jones lecture: ‘Take me to your leader: the crisis in leadership in BAME Britain’. Thursday 16 October 2014, 6.30pm Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London E14 5 Speaker: Patrick Younge – broadcaster/journalist Related links Book a ticket here NUJ
No One is Illegal gathering
Gathering of the No One is Illegal group. Sunday 19 October 2014, 1-5 pm The Common House, Unit 5E, 5 Pundersons Garden, Bethnal Green, London E2 9QG Related links No One is Illegal
Screening of ‘Burn’
Screening of a new documentary film Burn by Migrant Media plus a Q&A. Friday 17 October 2014, 6-7.30pm Lecture Theatre B04, Birbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Speakers include: Marcia Rigg – Sister of Sean Rigg Minkah Adofo – United Families & Friends Campaign Ken Fero – Director of Burn Related links
2014 Eve Saville memorial lecture
A lecture on ‘Policing in Britain: Corruption, Surveillance and Institutional Racism’. Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 6.15-8.30pm St. Martin’s Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ Related links Event details and registration here Centre for Crime and Justice Studies
Who Killed Blair Peach? pamphlet launch
Launch of a new pamphlet on the murder of Blair Peach. Thursday 2 October 2014, 6-8pm NUT HQ, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD Speakers include: • David Renton – author and barrister • Christine Blower – NUT General Secretary • Suresh Grover – The Monitoring Group • Stephanie Lightfoot-Bennett – United Families & Friends Campaign • Susan