A talk by an advisor to Sir William Macpherson in the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry. Sunday 14 April 2013, 7.30pm MIC Centre, 81-103 Euston Street, London NW1 2EZ Speaker: Richard Stone RELATED LINKS Jewish Socialist Group MIC Centre
Theme: Violence and harassment
Cuts, crime and racialisation
In the April 2013 issue of Race & Class leading UK thinkers, in a special section on Cuts, crime and racialisation, examine how neoliberalism, at a time of austerity, changes the very nature of racism and criminal justice. The young unemployed, often excluded from every institution and avenue, are unwanted. The dragnet of Joint Enterprise,
Second Stop G4S convergence
The second convergence of the Stop G4S campaign. Saturday 6 April 2013, 11-6pm Room 3B, University of London Union (ULU), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HY Workshops include: Contract procurement Contract monitoring G4S’ partners Shareholders Related links Download a copy of the agenda Stop G4S Stop G4S on Twitter Stop G4S on Facebook
Gove’s history curriculum condemned
Michael Gove’s reform of the national history curriculum has caused widespread concern. The Department for Education (DfE) is currently hosting a consultation on reforms to the national curriculum that will affect children from primary school-age to Key Stage 3. The consultation is aimed at school teachers, parents, young people, employers and local authorities among others,
Calls to sign joint enterprise petition
Campaigners are calling for signatures on a new petition which calls on David Cameron to reform joint enterprise laws. A new petition by the campaigning group, Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA), calls on the prime minister to ‘Help get rid of the 300-year old law that is imprisoning our children’. According to the
Double standards on International Women’s Day
Rights for women extend only as far as the immigration and asylum system allows. When the first International Women’s Day was marked, in 1911, well over a million people demonstrated, campaigning for the right to vote, to end discrimination, to work, to be trained and to hold public office. Since then, its existence has steadily been popularised, to
Miliband, migration and the market
IRR News continues its discussion with A. Sivanandan about Miliband’s policies. Have you changed your view in any way given Miliband’s party political broadcast and Yvette Cooper’s speech on 7 March? You seemed in December to have some hopes that Labour under Miliband might be somewhat more progressive. (Read the interview here: ‘Miliband’s progress?‘) No
Forgotten women of the war on terror
A discussion to mark the release of Victoria Brittain’s new book Shadow Lives: the forgotten women of the war on terror. Thursday 7 March 2013, 6-8pm Osmani Centre, 58 Underwood Road, London E1 5AW Speakers include: Victoria Brittain – author of Shadow Lives Liz Fekete – Institute of Race Relations Manjinder Virk – actress, director
The new wasteland
It is poverty not migration that is changing the nature of Britain’s towns and cities. If you want to feel and smell austerity, go to Hatfield – in leafy Hertfordshire, with the rolling hills that EM Forster loved. It provides a microcosm of the changing social geography of Britain today.[1] Hatfield was, until the 1990s,
Riots reframed
Performances, discussion and the debut screening of Riots reframed. Saturday 16 March 2013, 5.30pm Bethnal Green York Hall, 5 Old Ford Road, London E2 9PJ Programme includes: Riots Reframed screening Music Performances Guest speakers to be confirmed Q and A discussions RELATED LINKS Riots Reframed Bethnal Green York Hall