Our Rights. Our Entitlements. Your Duty!

The Traveller Movement’s national annual 2016 conference. Thursday 24 November 2016, 9.30-4pm Resource for London, 356 Holloway Road, London N7 6PA Speakers include: Kate Green MP – Labour Party, former Shadow Equalities Minister Paul Giannasi – Police Superintendent and Manager of the UK Government Hate Crime Programme Lord Herman Ouseley – Equality and diversity expert

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (14 – 27 October 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 20 September: The House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee publishes: EU Asylum Reform, download the report here. 12 October: The FN-backed mayor of the southern French town of Béziers launches a referendum on whether the town

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London Migration Film Festival

The first London Migration Film Festival with films focussing on migration with concerts, panel discussions and space for dialogue. 11-13 November 2016 Two venues in South London Films include:  11 November: On the Bride’s Side  12 November: Pawo  12 November: Baran  Related links London Migration Film Festival Facebook page

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Migrants and migration post-Brexit

An event bringing together migrant communities with experts on migration, equality, academics, the media and other stakeholders to discuss post-Brexit responses.  Friday 25 November 2016, 9.30-4pm Unite the Union, North London District Office, Ron Todd House, 33-37 Moreland Street, London EC1V 8BB Related links Migrant Voice

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Comment

The Pandora’s box of German fascism has been opened

Below we publish an edited version of a speech given by a spokesperson for the Berlin anti-fascist documentation centre Apabiz at a symposium held at the HAU Theatre, Berlin*.  ‘The problems we face in Germany today are twofold. First, the emergence of a far-right electoral party that is gaining between 10 and 25 per cent of

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SYMAAG 10th anniversary party 

A party to celebrate ten years of the South Yorkshire Migration Asylum Action Group (SYMAAG).  Saturday 12 November 2016 St Andrews Church, Upper Hanover Street, Sheffield S3 7RQ Related links SYMAAG SYMAAG on Facebook  

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The NSU scandal – investigations into child murders re-opened

More police failures in the case of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) have emerged after the discovery of the body of a child who disappeared fifteen years ago. A 9-year-old girl disappeared on her way home from school in Bavaria in 2001. Fifteen years later, skeletal remains of the child, named in the media only as

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News

Calendar of racism and resistance (30 September – 13 October 2016)

A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum & migration 1 October: Plans for a replacement Dungavel detention centre are revealed, to be sited near Glasgow Airport on an industrial estate, with a 12-foot fence. (The National, 1 October 2016) 1 October: Charities working at

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