A demonstration calling for the closure of Campsfield House immigration removal centre. Saturday 29 November 2014 Assemble at Exeter Hall car park, Kidlington, Oxfordshire OX5 1AB, 10:30am Demonstration at Campsfield House main gates, Langford Lane, Kidlington OX5 1RE, 12pm Related links Find more information about the event here Campaign to Close Campsfield Read an IRR News
Theme: Violence and harassment
Don’t let them drown
A weekly protest calling on the government to support search and rescue operations for migrants travelling across the Mediterranean Sea. Thursday 20 November 2014, 12:30pm Home Office, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DF Related links Movement Against Xenophobia Read an IRR News special issue: Taking a stand for human dignity
Calendar of racism and resistance (17-30 October 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Policing and criminal justice October: HM Inspectorate of Constabulary publishes a report: An inspection of undercover policing in England and Wales. Download it here. 17 October: The Guardian reveals the stories behind the statistics and the human toll
Holding football to account
IRR News speaks to Lord Ouseley about his twenty years of kicking racism out of football. When Herman Ouseley set up Let’s Kick Racism out of Football over twenty years ago, one of the driving factors was the rawness and frequency of racist abuse forcing people away from the game. ‘Football had become a game
Sixteen years of marching
For the sixteenth year, families and friends of those that have died in custody marched on Downing Street at the weekend. Behind the banner of the United Families and Friends Campaign, new families were walking in the procession including the family members of Rubel Ahmed, who died in Morton Hall immigration removal centre earlier this
Human rights – at the government’s discretion
There is more to the Tories’ proposals on human rights and free movement than mere electioneering. The October 2014 Conservative party conference was dominated by justice minister Chris Grayling’s announcement that a future Conservative government will repeal the Human Rights Act, replace it with a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities, and ignore unwelcome rulings
Our Vote campaign launch
A debate on ‘Immigration and the 2015 General Election’ and a private view of the Black Chronicles exhibition. Wednesday 12 November 2014, 6.30-9pm Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA Speakers include: Peter Herbert – Society of Black Lawyers Ratna Lachman – JUST West Yorkshire Don Flynn – Migrants’ Rights Network Tim Wigmore – New Statesman Related
Islamophobia, loyalty and the treason debate
As the coalition government considers a revival of treason laws, sections of the media are hunting for national traitors and their fellow-travellers. No one would dispute the facts. An estimated 500 young British Muslims are fighting in Syria and Iraq, and an unknown number of these have joined the Islamic State. Yet instead of looking
Iron Curtain Trilogy
Three plays by David Edgar about the causes and consequences of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 13-30 November 2014 Cockpit Theatre, Gateforth Street, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH The three plays are The Shape of the Table (about the fall of a Communist government in 1989), Pentecost (about the building of the new Europe after the fall of
Defend the Right to Protest conference
An all-day conference to discuss the criminalisation of protest, state violence, and injustice. Sunday 16 November 2014, 11am SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG Speakers include: Carole Duggan – Justice for Mark Duggan campaign Susan Alexander – Mother of Azelle Rodney Hamja Ahsan – Brother of Talha Ahsan Marcia Rigg – Sister of Sean Rigg Janet