A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 25 October: The Court of Appeal rules against the Home Office in a test case brought by a foreign student facing deportation on the basis of hearsay evidence on English language testing. (Migrants’ Rights Network,
Theme: Managed migration
Interview with Schools ABC
Below we interview members of a new campaign, Schools ABC, set up to resist the encroachment of border controls in schools. What is the Schools ABC campaign? What were the concerns that led you to set it up? The Against Borders for Children campaign started with two aims – to stop the Department for Education
Our Rights. Our Entitlements. Your Duty!
The Traveller Movement’s national annual 2016 conference. Thursday 24 November 2016, 9.30-4pm Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA Speakers include: Kate Green MP – Labour Party, former Shadow Equalities Minister Paul Giannasi – Police Superintendent and Manager of the UK Government Hate Crime Programme Lord Herman Ouseley – Equality and diversity expert
People Power: Black British arts and activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
An exhibition exploring aspects of Black British arts and activism which have developed in Hackney since the 1960s. Tuesday 4 October 2016 – Saturday 21 January 2017 Hackney Museum, (Ground Floor), Technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ Related links Hackney Museum
Calendar of racism and resistance (14 – 27 October 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 20 September: The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee publishes: EU Asylum Reform, download the report here. 12 October: The FN-backed mayor of the southern French town of Béziers launches a referendum on whether the town
London Migration Film Festival
The first London Migration Film Festival with films focussing on migration with concerts, panel discussions and space for dialogue. 11-13 November 2016 Two venues in South London Films include: 11 November: On the Bride’s Side 12 November: Pawo 12 November: Baran Related links London Migration Film Festival Facebook page
Migrants and migration post-Brexit
An event bringing together migrant communities with experts on migration, equality, academics, the media and other stakeholders to discuss post-Brexit responses. Friday 25 November 2016, 9.30-4pm Unite the Union, North London District Office, Ron Todd House, 33-37 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB Related links Migrant Voice
Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Thinking Racial Regimes and Film with Cedric J. Robinson
A film screening and roundtable on the work of Cedric Robinson. Wednesday 9 November 2016, 3.30-7.30pm Room 309, Richard Hoggart Building, Dixon Road, London SE14 6YZ Speakers include: Roderick Ferguson – Professor of African American and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago Avery F. Gordon – Professor of Sociology at
Calendar of racism and resistance (30 September – 13 October 2016)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at
Witness against torture
The October 2016 of Race & Class leads with two very timely and politically-provoking articles on the international impact of securitisation. Chandra Russo (of Colgate University, US) explores, through the protests of the group Witness Against Torture, how solidarity with those detained at Guantánamo has been maintained on US streets and how the plight of detainees