A discussion on the forgotten women of the war on terror. Thursday 28 November 2013, 7pm The Mosaic Rooms, Tower House, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5 0SW Participants: Victoria Brittain – author, Shadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror Haifa Zangana – novelist, artist and political activist RELATED LINKS Mosaic Rooms
Theme: Violence and harassment
Redbridge Equalities and Community Council AGM
The AGM of the Redbridge Equalities and Community Council with a talk on the work of the IRR. Thursday 28 November 2013, 7.30pm Gants Hill United Reformed Church, 39 Woodford Avenue, Gants Hill, Ilford, Essex IG2 6UH Speaker: Harmit Athwal – Editor, IRR News RELATED LINKS Redbridge Equalities and Community Council
Celebrating an anti-racist institute
A key session at an international conference in London at the beginning of November on ‘Making the world working class’ was devoted to the work of A. Sivanandan and his legacy in the ongoing work of the Institute of Race Relations. Activists and scholars, contributors and would-be contributors to Race & Class packed into a
‘Groundings of the IRR’
Colin Prescod, the long-term Chair of the Institute of Race Relations, explains, in a speech to the Historical Materialism Conference, 2013, how, as a Black activist, academic, and film-maker, he gravitated to the IRR. We thought that it might be useful to this reflective forum if I spoke about ‘how and when’ I came to
Legal workshop on the asylum system
A free legal workshop on asylum law, policy and support. Thursday 21 November 2013, 12pm 3 North Church Street, Butetown, Cardiff CF10 5HB Workshop covers: Asylum refusal, advice on financial support and more RELATED LINKS Women Seeking Sanctuary Advocacy Group Wales Rights of Women
Making freedom
An exhibition marking the 175th anniversary of emancipation in the Caribbean. Wednesday 6 November 2013 – Saturday 21 December 2013 Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR RELATED LINKS More details here
Rally for Ricky Bishop
A rally to demand justice for Ricky Bishop, who died in police custody in 2001. Saturday 23 November 2013, 1pm Brixton police station, 367 Brixton Road, London SW9 7DD RELATED LINKS Download a flyer here
Resisting injustice, recovering truth
A Race & Class meeting on Hillsborough and family campaigns for justice. Wednesday 27 November 2013, 7pm London School of Economics, Clements House (CLM 2.02, Second floor), Houghton Street, London WC2A 2A Main speaker: Phil Scraton – primary author of the Hillsborough Independent Panel Report Chaired by Robert Reiner – Professor of Criminology, Queens University
Roma voices: heard at last?
A report of a parliamentary meeting on the Roma experience of flight from the Czech Republic and settlement in the UK. Czech National Day – 28 October – was marked in 2013, as for many years past, by neo-Nazi parties openly marching and terrorising Roma districts of rundown former industrial cities of the Czech Republic,
Twenty years too long!
A series of events in Oxford to mark the twentieth anniversary of Campsfield House immigration removal centre. Saturday 30 November 2013, 12pm Campsfield House, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 1RE RELATED LINKS Campaign to Close Campsfield View a flyer here