A MRN and RAMFEL public meeting to discuss the new wave of immigration enforcement. Friday 12 December 2014, 1.15-4pm Farringdon Room, St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ Speakers include: • Don Flynn & Ruth Grove-White – Migrants’ Rights Network • Rita Chadha – RAMFEL • Sue Lukes – Migration, Equalities and Service Provision Specialist • Barbara Cohen –
Theme: Managed migration
Abandoning Gypsy, Traveller and Roma communities … the UK way
Two new reports, prepared by the National Federation of Gypsy Liaison Groups (NFGLG), with the assistance of academic colleagues, ask hard questions of the coalition government. The European Commission (EC) gave the UK government an ‘overall poor rating’ for the progress report it delivered in 2012 on its Roma integration strategy. The EC uses ‘Roma’
The slippery, cynical politics of asylum
At the start of the run-up to the 2015 election, John Grayson, a campaigner in South Yorkshire, examines the main political parties’ line on asylum. ‘The UK has a proud history of offering sanctuary to those who need it.’ A Home Office spokeswoman on Channel 4 News after the disclosure that the Home Office had
Calendar of racism and resistance (31 October-13 November 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 3 November: The trial of three G4S guards on charges of the manslaughter of Jimmy Mubenga, during a deportation in October 2010, begins at the Old Bailey. The court is told the guards repeatedly
Cuguano and the mass movement against slavery
A new book on Ottoboah Cuguano brings to life the history of eighteenth century anti-slavery agitation. In June 1985 the Daily Mail reacted to and sought to lampoon Lambeth Council’s announcement that they planned to name some thirty-five council buildings after prominent black historical figures. ‘This plaque honours the memory of Mister Cuguana — Mr Who?’
Calendar of racism and resistance (17-30 October 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice October: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary publishes a report: An inspection of undercover policing in England and Wales. Download it here. 17 October: The Guardian reveals the stories behind the statistics and the human toll
Holding football to account
IRR News speaks to Lord Ouseley about his twenty years of kicking racism out of football. When Herman Ouseley set up Let’s Kick Racism out of Football over twenty years ago, one of the driving factors was the rawness and frequency of racist abuse forcing people away from the game. ‘Football had become a game
Defend the Right to Protest conference
An all-day conference to discuss the criminalisation of protest, state violence, and injustice. Sunday 16 November 2014, 11am SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Carole Duggan – Justice for Mark Duggan campaign Susan Alexander – Mother of Azelle Rodney Hamja Ahsan – Brother of Talha Ahsan Marcia Rigg – Sister of Sean Rigg Janet
Screening of ‘Black Britannica’
A screening of David Koff’s historic Blacks Britannica (1978) hosted by South London Anti-Fascists. Thursday 30 October 2014, 7pm Cinema (Room RHB 185), Goldsmiths University, London SE14 6NW Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about racism and the state today.
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-16 October 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6