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
Theme: Violence and harassment
Still privatised, still undervalued: new court interpreting contract from 31 October
Legal translator Aisha Maniar looks at the impact of privatised court interpreting services in England and Wales over the past five years and the new justice sector contract which came into force on 31 October. ‘It is easy to take for granted the right to a fair trial. It does happen, people of good character coming before
People Power: Black British arts and activism in Hackney 1960s-2000s
An exhibition exploring aspects of Black British arts and activism which have developed in Hackney since the 1960s. Tuesday 4 October 2016 – Saturday 21 January 2017 Hackney Museum, (Ground Floor), Technology and Learning Centre, 1 Reading Lane, London E8 1GQ Related links Hackney Museum
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
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
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
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
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
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
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