A national demonstration has been called after four deaths at Morton Hall detention centre. Saturday 20 January 2018 Morton Hall detention centre, Morton Hall Village, Swinderby, Lincoln LN6 9PT Related links Download a flyer here View further details on the event here South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG)
Theme: Managed migration
The first Stuart Hall public conversation
The first Stuart Hall Public Conversation bringing together writers, performers and artists for an afternoon of stimulating talks, readings and performances. Saturday 3 February 2018, 2pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Speakers and performers include: Mona Arshi David Edgar Pankaj Mishra Gilane Tawadros Lanre Malaolu Related links Stuart Hall Foundation View full details here
Is the Era of Universal Human Rights Coming to an End?
Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE, will deliver the Corin Redgrave Memorial Lecture 2018. Saturday 27 January 2018, 2-4pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Related links Book a ticket here Download a flyer here (pdf file, 53kb)
‘Black for a Cause’ – documentary screening
Black for a Cause documents Winston Trew’s forty year fight to clear his name following a miscarriage of justice. The Black Power activist served a two year prison sentence after being falsely convicted of theft, robbery and assault on police officers. Wednesday 31 January 2018, 6.30-8pm The Stripe Lecture Room, The University of Winchester, Sparkford
A. Sivanandan 1923 – 2018
A. Sivanandan, the Director Emeritus of the Institute of Race Relations and founding editor of Race & Class has passed away. The Institute of Race Relations would like to thank everyone who has sent tributes and messages of condolences following the death of A. Sivanandan on Wednesday 3 January. As his family and friends mourn
Letters from the Utopian Margins: a late submission to the Hawthorn Archive
On 15 December, in London, Avery Gordon, Race & Class contributor and Editorial Working Committee Member, launched her book The Hawthorn Archive: letters from the Utopian Margins – in which she collects the traces of ‘radical runaways, deserters, abolitionists, heretics, dreamers and liberationalists’ of all shades and nations. Below we publish the contribution welcoming the
The road to anti-racism
A unique project tells the tale of how militant anti-racists in the 1970s helped create the multicultural London now taken for granted. 1976-7 was the pivotal year in the annals of British anti-racism. There was the vilification in the press of Asians fleeing Malawi, the murder of Gurdip Singh Chaggar in the heart of Southall,
Calendar of racism and resistance (1-14 December 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 29 November: Four migrants die in a car crash after their overcrowded car, carrying eight migrants, plunges off a ninety foot cliff during a police chase in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. (APNews, 29 November 2017) 5
The Hawthorn Archive book launch
Les Back, Brenna Bhandar and Kodwo Eshun join Avery Gordon to discuss her new book, ‘The Hawthorn Archive: Letters from the Utopian Margins’, which presents a selection of the Hawthorn Archive’s collections. Friday 15 December 2017, 5-7 pm The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ The Hawthorn Archive, named after the richly fabled tree, is a disorganised and
Deaths in the Direct Provision system in Ireland
In the fourth of a series, asylum campaigner John Grayson examines the deaths that have occurred of asylum seekers housed in the Direct Provision (DP) system in Ireland. Sharon Waters of the Irish Refugee Service described the lack of information on deaths and the number of suicides in direct provision accommodation centres as ‘shambolic’ …Waters