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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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (29 January – 12 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 4 February: Academics warn that the government’s message that the UK is ‘open to global talent’ is being undermined by aggressive and harsh treatment of colleagues seeking visas and settlement. (Guardian, 4

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (15-29 January 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 14 January: Twenty-six sans-papiers (undocumented) workers from former French colonies, working for Chronopost, a subsidiary of the French postal service, claim victory as they are all given temporary work permits⁠—the result of

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Comment

Fault lines in the fight against racism and antisemitism

The government’s bifurcated approach to racial equality is deepening fissures in our movements with anti-racism emerging as a key site of struggle Those of us who have contributed to the anti-racist movement for decades have been left demoralised by the ‘debate’ about racism and antisemitism both prior to and during the general election. Academic, author

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Comment

The Queen’s Speech: setting the ‘public’ against its ‘enemies’

What will be the ramifications of the Conservative government’s policies, as set out in the December Queen’s Speech, for BAME communities and all those fighting for racial justice, both domestically and internationally? Criminal justice In the field of criminal justice, the proposed new offence of criminal trespass on land dramatically intensifies the war on Gypsies

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (1-15 January 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 January: Campaign groups Foxglove and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) criticise the Home Office’s refusal to disclose the list of countries it deems ‘high-risk’ in the

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Unreasonable Suspicion: the effects of Stop and Search practice

A lively community-focused panel discussion in Manchester about the impact of Stop & Search on local BAME communities. Hosted by Sites of Restitance, an EQUAL’s #TimeToTalk discussion on the topic of ‘Unreasonable Suspicion: the effects of Stop and Search practice’. Confirmed speakers: Andy Burnham, Roxy Legane and Patrick Williams At Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton building (Lecture

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