The annual DIY Cultures festival including exhibitions, new art commissions, workshops, contemporary craft, panel discussions, comics, illustration, video art, digital animation, poetry and music exploring DIY practice. Sunday 14 May 2017, 12-7pm Rich Mix, 35 – 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA Themes include: Radical mental health Introvert resistance Shy radicals Resisting crap jobs Four day
Theme: Sport
Calendar of racism and resistance (7 – 20 April 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 6 April: A new immigration skills charge comes into force, requiring employers to pay a £1,000 annual levy for hiring certain skilled workers from outside the European Economic Area. It is feared the charge could
Narratives that marginalise: from Ferguson to Palestine
The April 2017 Race & Class tackles two key current themes: the impact of Fox News in (mis)representing news and creating racist discourses, and the way in which Canadian ‘neoliberal multiculturalism’ is marginalising Arabs, Muslims and those in solidarity with Palestine. Colleen Mills, researcher into racism and hate crime at John Jay College of Criminal
Calendar of racism and resistance (24 March – 6 April 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration March: The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) publishes a factsheet on immigration detention, download it here (pdf file, 95kb). 11 March: Campaigners protest outside Morton
Stop feeding the beast! A review of ‘My Country: A work in progress’
A play built around seventy long interviews with ‘leavers’ and ‘remainers’ about their feelings after the Brexit vote, inadvertently, provides insights into the immigration debate. The liberal consensus on immigration has broken down. That’s what Brexit has taught us, or at least that’s what the establishment tells us that Brexit has taught us. The Conservative
To Birmingham with love
A Birmingham resident fiercely objects, in the wake of the recent deadly terror attack at Westminster, to the depiction of her city as the hotbed of extremism. According to the Daily Mail (‘So how DID Birmingham become the jihadi capital of Britain?’, 24 March 2017), I live in the ‘jihadi capital of Britain’, Birmingham. ‘Birmingham. Birmingham.
Calendar of racism and resistance (9 – 23 March 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration March: Women for Refugee Women publish a report: The Way Ahead: An asylum system without detention, download it here (pdf file, 3mb). 2 March: The Migrant and Refugee Children’s Legal Unit (MiCLU) publish a report:
‘From Children of Europe to Lesbos’
Second seminar in the Baobab Centre’s lecture series with David Kogan, Executive Director of Magnum Photos giving a personal and pictorial account on the theme of ‘From Children of Europe to Lesbos: What have we learnt in 70 years?’. Thursday 6 April 2017, 6pm Palace House, 3 Cathedral Street, London SE1 9DE (next to the Golden
Migrant detention in the European Union: a thriving business
The London launch of a report by Migreurop: ‘Migrant detention in the European Union: a thriving business’. Tuesday 28 March 2017, 6-8pm Praxis Community Projects, Pott Street, London E2 0EF Speakers from organisations including: Migreurop Corporate Watch Institute of Race Relations South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) The evening will conclude with an
Monitoring human rights violations at the Hungarian border
Sonia Nandzik of the Serbian volunteer group Fresh Response describes how the group has responded to the increasing savagery of Hungarian police at the border. The work of our independent group of volunteers, Fresh Response, has changed and taken on new significance in the light of the increasing human rights violations at the Serbian-Hungarian border.