An overview of Medical Justice’s work over the last year, as well as a film screening, award ceremony and dinner. Thursday 12 December 2013, 6pm Andover Estate Community Centre, Andover Estate, Finsbury Park, London N7 7RY Includes: ‘I am not a criminal’ – film screening Awards ceremonies Food RELATED LINKS Medical Justice
Theme: Housing
Injustice and Talha Ahsan
An evening of short film, discussion and prison poetry about the Extradition of Talha Ahsan. Thursday 12 December 2013, 7pm Room DLT, SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Speakers: Nisha Kapoor – author and editor Bill Bowring – expert on human rights law Frances Webber – vice co-chair of the Institute of Race Relations Hamja
CPS Crisis
Demonstration against Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) inaction. This year there have been two damning unlawful killing verdicts into deaths in custody and still the CPS is procrastinating about whether to charge those involved. Friday 6 December 2013, 11-1pm Crown Prosecution Service, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS Related links Download a flyer (pdf
Atlas of Migration in Europe launch
The launch of the Atlas of Migration in Europe report. Monday 2 December 2013, 6pm Garden Court Chambers, 57-60 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ Speakers: Liz Fekete – Institute of Race Relations Jerome Phelps – Detention Action A former detainee – Freed Voices Chris Jones – Statewatch Olivier Clochard – Migreurop Katherine Booth –
Is anti-fascism being criminalised?
An activist comments on the implications of recent arrests of anti-fascists at demonstrations opposing the English Defence League and the British National Party. In the space of just over three months this year, police made upwards of 340 arrests of anti-fascists in London. Of the arrests made over two occasions, less than a dozen will
Shadow Lives
A discussion on the forgotten women of the war on terror. Thursday 28 November 2013, 7pm The Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW Participants: Victoria Brittain – author, Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror Haifa Zangana – novelist, artist and political activist RELATED LINKS Mosaic Rooms
Redbridge Equalities and Community Council AGM
The AGM of the Redbridge Equalities and Community Council with a talk on the work of the IRR. Thursday 28 November 2013, 7.30pm Gants Hill United Reformed Church, 39 Woodford Avenue, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex IG2 6UH Speaker: Harmit Athwal – Editor, IRR News RELATED LINKS Redbridge Equalities and Community Council
Rally for Ricky Bishop
A rally to demand justice for Ricky Bishop, who died in police custody in 2001. Saturday 23 November 2013, 1pm Brixton police station, 367 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DD RELATED LINKS Download a flyer here
Resisting injustice, recovering truth
A Race & Class meeting on Hillsborough and family campaigns for justice. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 7pm London School of Economics, Clements House (CLM 2.02, Second floor), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2A Main speaker: Phil Scraton – primary author of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Report Chaired by Robert Reiner – Professor of Criminology, Queens University
Roma voices: heard at last?
A report of a parliamentary meeting on the Roma experience of flight from the Czech Republic and settlement in the UK. Czech National Day – 28 October – was marked in 2013, as for many years past, by neo-Nazi parties openly marching and terrorising Roma districts of rundown former industrial cities of the Czech Republic,