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Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 February 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and Migration Asylum and migration rights 7 February: Lawyers and rights groups say increases in funding proposed in a review of legal aid by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), including restoring legal aid for migrant children separated

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Press Release

The London Clearances a background paper on race, housing and policing

New IRR publication provides a fresh take on housing, policing and racism in London. The moral panic over supposedly dangerous black, urban subcultures in London, emerges at a crucial time, argues the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) in a challenging background paper published today. The impact of financialisation on local authority housing is converging with

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The So-Called ‘Migrant Crisis’ Analysed

Seán Binder and Meena Aramish Masood, humanitarian volunteers on the Greek island of Lesvos, are initiators of this wide-ranging panel discussion which will be chaired by the LSE Human Rights Group. Thursday February 28th, 6.30-8pm Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, Kings Cross Road, London WC1X 9HS Register for the event here Related Links

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Southall, April 1979: How to fight the fascists and win (then and now)

University of London, Birkbeck College holds event to discuss how to combat fascism, with a focus on the events that took place in Southall in 1979 and 1981.  Sunday 28 April, 1pm-5:30pm Room B36, Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7JL This is one of a series of events to commemorate the 40th

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Southall Resists 40: history speaking to the now

A Southall resident describes the community activities in Southall Resists 40, remembering the death of anti-fascist Blair Peach in 1979 and the historic opposition to racism and fascism in Southall. 23 April is mainly seen as England’s national St George’s Day. But, that day also stands out as a moment in British history when nationalist

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Criminalising Dissent: the Stansted 15 and the Hostile Environment

A lecture examining political resistance to the UK’s ‘deport now, appeal later policy’, the value of direct action and what the judgement on the Stansted 15 means for the future of political dissent. Wednesday 20 February, 6pm – 8pm Room 313, School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End, London, E1 4NS The event,

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Calendar of racism and resistance (23 January – 6 February 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 23 January: After two years of unlawfully refusing his safe passage from the Calais Jungle, the Home Office finalises arrangements for an Eritrean child refugee to join his aunt in

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Calendar of racism & resistance (9 – 22 January 2019)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. ASYLUM, MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP Asylum and migrant rights 17 January: The High Court gives permission for a legal challenge to the immigration exemption from the Data Protection Act which prevents migrants seeing Home Office files on them. (Guardian,

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Entrenching hierarchies: the new immigration white paper

The white paper’s differential treatment of ‘low risk’ and ‘high risk’ nationalities, ‘high skilled’ and ‘low skilled’ people, will create new hierarchies of race and class – and intolerable hardship. The white paper setting out the government’s post-Brexit immigration policy, The UK’s future skills-based immigration system, seeks to justify the removal of free movement rights

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World without borders: teach in

A day of workshops on understanding the context of the UK border regime with practical sessions on how to build a world without borders. Including sessions on: An interactive play based on the experiences of women from All African Women’s Group Subvertising A teach-in beginning a process of curating The People’s Trial of The Home

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