Eliane Edmond-Pettitt describes how the situation in Calais has changed for volunteers on the ground since the Jungle came down in 2016. In October 2016 bulldozers entered the Calais ‘Jungle’, a shanty town built on an asbestos field on the edge of Calais near the port. The event gained a lot of media attention and
An awareness-raising event in solidarity with Humanitarian activists Seán Binder, Sarah Mardini and Nasso Karakitsos who have been detained, while doing voluntary work, saving lives in Lesvos, Greece. Saturday 20 October, 1pm – 4pm London King’s Cross Station, N1C 4TB, London – exact location to be confirmed. This event will link up with demonstrations in
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 25 September: A court in Boulogne finds 21-year-old Loan Torondel, a worker for L’Auberge des Migrants, guilty of criminal libel for an ironic tweet about police harassment of migrants, a conviction described by Human Rights
The October 2018 issue of Race & Class brings together pieces on racialising domestic violence, #Grime4Corybyn, the rebranding of C.L.R. James for a neoliberal era and memorial tributes to A. Sivanandan. Jessica Perera, who is currently assisting research at the Institute of Race Relations, explores how Grime artists in the 2017 UK general election came
A conference to mark the twentieth anniversary of the United Families & Friends Campaign. Friday 26 October 2018, 9am-9pm The Light, Friends House, Euston Road, London NW1 Speakers include: Janet Alder – sister of Christopher Alder who died in Hull Police Station in 1998 and who has since campaigned for justice Sherene Razack – Distinguished Professor and the Penney
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 September: The Spanish Congress of Deputies reinstalls access to healthcare for undocumented migrants, regardless of status. (ECRE, 14 September 2018) 12 September: Despite the efforts of British Conservative MEPs, the European parliament votes to
How labels serve to justify and normalise the worst of the EU’s migration practices. The expansive catalogue of terminologies – refugees, displaced, migrants, asylum seekers, expelled, stateless, repatriated, returned, illegal, unauthorised, undocumented, irregular – has not, according to Tazreena Sajjad at the Global Governance, Politics and Security Program at the American University in Washington, DC,
Day of action at Chelmsford Crown Court to express solidarity with the ‘Stansted 15’ who grounded a deportation charter flight and have been charged with a terrorism related offence. Monday 1 October 2018, 8.30am At Chelmsford Crown Court, New Street, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1EL Related links Solidarity with Stansted defendants Donate to trial-related costs here
The coordinator of the IRR’s Black History Collection digs deep into the archive and shows how public opinion is constructed For reasons that are deeply contradictory, the Caribbean community in Britain has been at the forefront in media and parliamentary debate this summer. Its contribution to British society was rightly highlighted and praised in the
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21, 28 August: Three volunteers with the Emergency Response Center International (ECRI), including German-based Syrian refugee Sarah Mardini, are arrested on Lesbos and in Athens on charges of facilitating illegal entry for profit, having advance
