Radical educationalist Chris Searle examines the response to recent exclusions in the Slovak Roma community in Sheffield in a lecture at the School of Education, University of Birmingham in December 2016. The conservative restoration continues apace at every level of the British education system, most markedly in our schools. While cuts and austerity policies force local education authorities to
African Odysseys at the BFI present a ‘Blacks Britannica’ followed by a discussion. Saturday 28 January 2017, 2pm NFT3 GA, British Film Institute, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1 8XT Speakers include: Colin Prescod – Chair of the Institute of Race Relations Kunle Olulode – Director of Voice4Change Other guests TBA Related links Book tickets here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 6 December: The director of Europol promises to ‘look again’ at the circumstances in which 500 refugees drowned in the April 2016 Mediterranean shipwreck after an investigation by Reuters/BBC Newsnight finds that no official body,
First public event for the Against Borders for Children campaign. Saturday 14 January 2017, 12.30-5pm SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Panel discussions and workshops on: The ABC campaign in context: a ‘hostile environment’ for migrants and disappearing data privacy rights What we stand for: imagining conversations about migration in the classroom Where
Are you passionate about racial justice? Do you have good organisational and administrative skills? Would you relish the opportunity of working in a small team to help develop one of the UK’s leading educational charities creating and disseminating analyses and information? If so, we might have just the job for you. The IRR is looking
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 November: The malnourished body of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee who froze to death is found in an abandoned industrial building in northern Bulgaria near the Serbian border, the tenth known death of a refugee
A number of experts comment on the recently published ‘Casey Review: A review into opportunity and integration’. Dr Waqas Tufail: ‘Erroneous, misguided and dangerous’ The Casey Review represents the latest attempt by the state to intervene in the lives of British Muslims. The findings reached by Louise Casey are not new, original or surprising –
In a pioneering study published today, the IRR takes a fresh look at the nature of racial hate crimes since the referendum. Through a detailed examination of cases on the IRR’s unique database it establishes a link between the language and behaviour of perpetrators of such violence, the rhetoric and policy pronouncements of politicians over
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 12 November: Local council leaders criticise the government for failing to place young refugee children with them despite a national transfer scheme being in place. (Guardian, 12 November 2016) 14 November: Three 16-year-old Afghan asylum
A black history walk exploring Claudia Jones and the world she lived in. Sunday 27 November 2016, 11am Meet outside Brixton Library, London SW2 1JQ (Ends at Oval station)
