A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Violence and harassment 2 July: The Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF) publishes a report documenting a 23.5 per cent rise in Islamophobic attacks after the killings of the Charlie Hebdo staff and hostages in a Jewish grocery
Theme: Violence and harassment
The prognosis for medical justice after 10 years
The tenth Medical Justice annual general meeting, Thursday 30 July 2015, 6.30pm Doughty Street Chambers, 53-54 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LS Speakers: Simon Israel – Home Affairs Correspondent, Channel 4 News Alison Pickup – barrister, Doughty Street Chambers Dr Juliet Cohen – Freedom from Torture Stephanie Youdom Tonmi – ex-detainee Related links Medical Justice
FoodFight – Resistance is Fertile
A free five-day course, organised by the Voices That Shake, on art, race, media and power to explore the idea that resistance is fertile. Monday 3 August – Friday 7 August 2015 We are Spotlight, 30 Hay Currie Street, E14 6GN London The course will include: Interactive workshops, dialogue & skill-shares to creatively campaign for
Crowdfunding a challenge to joint enterprise
JENGbA has launched an important crowdfunding appeal for a case at the Supreme Court. Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (JENGbA) is hoping to raise at least £10,000 for analytical work to be carried out by their lawyers, the human rights and criminal solicitors ITN, and barristers at Doughty Street. The Supreme Court has been
Detained Fast Track: how to reform structural injustice?
Asylum rights campaigners and human rights lawyers are celebrating the suspension of the detained fast track – and gearing up to resume battle over a ‘reformed’ version. On 2 July, immigration minister James Brokenshire announced the suspension of fast-track detention of asylum seekers. In a historic victory for asylum rights campaigners, he acknowledged the ‘significant’
Self defence or a licence to kill?
When we look at the figures of young African Americans shot dead, some might comfort themselves with the mantra ‘thank goodness our police forces, unlike those of the US, are not routinely armed’. But look at our record of BAME killings when they are armed. In just the last few years, Azelle Rodney was shot
Calendar of racism and resistance (19 June – 2 July 2015)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. POLICING AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE 19 June: The Independent Police Complaints Commission will consider whether the ethnicity or the mental health of a 33-year-old prisoner injured in a cell influenced the actions of six officers involved in his restraint, resulting in
Past and present of the IRR
Two videos from the IRR’s recent conference Catching History on the Wing, which celebrated the work of the IRR and A. Sivanandan, are now available to view. The first session examined the ‘coup’ in 1972 which ousted the IRR’s rich and powerful Management Board and its monopoly on defining ‘race relations’, is available here. The second
Get Up, Stand Up! Racial equality and anti-racism
A series of debates and lectures as part of a collaborative project between New Art Exchange and NCCL exploring notions of international civil rights. Thursday 9 July 2015, 6-8pm New Art Exchange, 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham NG7 6BE Participants include: Jagdish Patel – The Monitoring Group Janna Graham – Centre for Research in Race and Rights,
Working Illegally: film and discussion
A screening of ‘Working Illegally’ which looks behind the closed walls of UK border enforcement to expose the reality of immigration detention. Thursday 23 July 2015, 6.30pm The Stretch, Goldsmiths Students’ Union, Dixon Road, New Cross SE14 6NW The screening will be followed by a discussion between Aderonke Apata (a former detainee at the Yarl’s