The mural commemorating the Grunwick strike is to be unveiled. Designed by artist Anna Ferrie and more than 60 participants at community workshops, the artwork has been a collaborative effort reflecting both memories of the strike for those who were present and the hope it represents for younger generations. Saturday 30 September 2017, 12-4pm Chapter
Theme: Violence and harassment
Calendar of racism and resistance (1 – 21 September 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 1 September: G4S suspends nine members of staff at Brook House pending an investigation into allegations of abuse and assault revealed in a BBC Panorama programme. A Home Office worker is also suspended. (Guardian, 2
Direct Provision in Ireland: the holding pen for asylum seekers
In the first of a series, asylum campaigner John Grayson examines the Direct Provision (DP) system for asylum seekers in Ireland. Part-two will examine the private companies involved in providing services under DP. ‘The Minister for Justice has made an outspoken attack on bogus asylum-seeking and “political correctness” at the Oireachtas Justice Committee. Michael McDowell
Two deaths in immigration detention centres in 12 days
On 7 September, an unnamed Polish man died in hospital after self-harming at Harmondsworth detention centre. Twelve days later a Chinese man was found dead at Dungavel in Scotland. Two deaths in twelve days making a total of four deaths already this year. The first man was found at the Mitie-run[1] centre in west London
Calendar of racism and resistance (14 July – 31 August 2017)
A resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum and migration 30 June: A report on the situation of unaccompanied refugee children in Greece and ways to improve it, by the International Rescue Committee and METAdrasi, is published. Read the report here. (Are You Syrious, 19 July 2017)
CARF available now
A vital resource for those interested in the history of anti-racist campaigning has now been made available on the IRR’s website. Seventy-two issues of the magazine CARF published between 1991 and 2003 are now available to download free of charge here. CARF reflected and spoke to the activist movements in the UK over that time,
The National Miscarriage of Justice Day
United Against Injustice is holding its sixteenth annual conference. Saturday 7 October 2017, 10-5pm John Foster Building, 80-98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool L3 5UZ Speakers include: John O Saptal Ram Dr Denis Eady Trudi Benjamin Michelle Nicolson Related links More information can be found here
Fighting fire
The Grenfell Tower inferno throws up all the contradictions between community self-help and resistance and an uncaring state. Fire this time These walls bear witness. ‘Justice’, ‘pity the poor’, ‘fuck the local authority’s Tenants Management Organisation’s, gentrification serving, class-cleansing deception’, they shout. And poignantly, still faintly echoing down the years, from half a century ago,
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Calendar of racism and resistance (30 June – 13 July 2017)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 26 June: The Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) for Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre (IRC) publishes its Annual Report, which finds the centre still needs improvement. Download it here. (Bedford Today, 28 June 2017) 28 June: