A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and immigration 5 June: Doctors in Switzerland criticise the government’s physical examinations of young unaccompanied asylum seekers to determine their age. The tests involve, in addition to checks for bone and tooth age, young boys and girls
A Communities and Sanctuary-Seekers Together (CAST) event for Refugee Week. Saturday 25 June 2016, 7.30-10.30pm Westcliff United Reform Church, King’s Road/Leigh Road, Westcliff SS0 8PP Featuring: Anna Mudeka Mbira music from Zimbabwe Bheki Gumboot dancer Original drama & dance created by University Centre Southend Related links View a flyer here Communities and Sanctuary-Seekers Together (CAST)
A national demonstration to call for #JusticeOrElse for Kingsley Burrell. Saturday 9 July 2016, 1-4.30pm Assemble at Handsworth Cemetery, Oxhill Road, Birmingham B21 8JT to march into the city centre. Speakers include: Kedisha Burrell-Brown – Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell Desmond Jaddoo – Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell Marcia Rigg – Sean Rigg Justice & Change Shaun Hall – Justice 4
A Room to Heal presents an evening of food, music and performance. Friday 1 July 2016, from 6pm Room to Heal, Mildmay Community Centre, Woodville Road, London N16 8NA Related links Room to Heal View a flyer here
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 17 May: The Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration launches a survey to gauge views on the work of the Inspectorate, which is open until Monday 27 June 2016. Take part in the survey here.
Below we publish tributes to Cedric Robinson. Tom Denyer As intellectual careers go, Professor Cedric Robinson’s serves as a textbook. His first priority, teaching, relied on close, generous engagement with the mind of the individual student. He still found time for disciplined, objective, assiduous research and writing. His genuine interest in the work of his
Activist and poet Sam Berkson examines grassroots resistance to the social and political crisis in Hungary. On 15 March, a national holiday commemorating the revolution of 1848, some 50,000 people pressed into the rain-soaked square in front of Parliament to listen to speeches, sing together and shout for the removal of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. The teachers,
We reproduce below A. Sivanandan’s eulogy on Muhammad Ali on the day he lost to Joe Frazier in March 1971. Tonight the black world weeps that their king has passed away. But tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow… every black man will have become his own king – for that is the legacy that Muhammad Ali
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 9 May: A 26-year-old Syrian refugee is shot in the kidney and wounded by Slovakian border guards on the border between Slovakia and Hungary, near the town of Velky Meder. The woman is in a
The Institute of Race Relations, based in London’s Kings Cross, is giving away surplus duplicated material and invites people to take the chance of adding to their collections. You will be able to view and take away material from IRR’s ground floor (2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS) on Thursday 16 June, 2-7pm. Unfortunately material cannot be
