The twentieth annual United Families & Friends Campaign remembrance march for those that have died in custody. Saturday 27 October 2018, 1pm Assemble at Nelson’s Column, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N Related links United Families & Friends Campaign Migrant Media 4WardEverUK.
Theme: Violence and harassment
The lethal consequences of the ‘hostile environment’
On 30 June, 23-year-old Mustafa Dawood, who was from the Darfur region of Sudan, was found dead after falling from a building in Newport, Wales as immigration officers carried out a raid at a car wash. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating the death, and its press release noted: ‘A 23 year
Calendar of racism and resistance (6 – 19 July 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration July: Sentina D’Artanyan-Bristol, the mother of Dexter Bristol, ‘a child of the Windrush generation, who died this March, following a year of being rejected as a British citizen’ is raising funds to cover the legal
Windrush: Songs in a strange land
A review on a powerful exhibition at the British Library on the relationship between Britain and the Caribbean post-Windrush, which refuses to take the usual UK-centric approach. The recent ‘Windrush scandal’ has woken the nation to the institutional cruelty at the heart of the Home Office’s ‘hostile environment policies’. Now, a brilliant free exhibition running
Discussing the UNITED List
A discussion on the list of deaths collated by UNITED for Intercultural Action which was published by the Guardian on World Refugee Day in June. Monday 23 July 2018, 7-9pm Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, London E3 5QZ Speakers: Liz Fekete – IRR Mark Rice-Oxley – Guardian Banu Cennetoğlu – artist Related links UNITED for Intercultural
Stop Deportations to Zimbabwe
A protest in Sheffield to call for an end to forced deportations to Zimbabwe. Wednesday 25 July 2018, 12-1pm Sheffield Town Hall, Pinstone Street, Sheffield S1 2HH Related links South Yorkshire Migration and Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG) SYMAAG on Facebook
Islamophobia in Denmark: from parallel societies to the ‘ghetto list’
Anti-Muslim discrimination is now central to Danish immigration and integration policies. It is ludicrous, not to mention unscientific to suggest that there are ghettos in Denmark, but fear of ridicule does not stop the Danish Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing producing a ‘ghetto list’ (ghettolisten). First published in 2010, and updated each year, the
Denmark’s ‘ghetto list’ must be scrapped
Anti-racist activist John Graversgaard, from Aarhus, sets out campaigners’ objections to Denmark’s forced integration strategy. The recently released ‘ghetto list’ must be scrapped. It is through language that we express our understanding of reality, and it is scary what politicians are saying. Using the concept of the ‘ghetto’, and linking it to the ‘parallel society’
Macpherson definition misunderstood in Labour Party anti-Semitism definition
As the Parliamentary Labour Party and Labour’s National Executive Committee meet to discuss the adoption of a contentious definition of anti-Semitism, the IRR draws attention to its evidence to the Chakrabarti Review, submitted two years ago. In June 2016, we drew attention to the dangers of introducing too much subjectivity into the definition of racism,
Calendar of racism and resistance (22 June – 5 July 2018)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 21 June: The Home Office publishes a sixty-page ‘Statement of Intent’ for an EU citizens’ settlement scheme post-Brexit. Download the document here; read a critique here. 24 June: A parliamentary written answer reveals that MPs