A Race & Class discussion on the co-option dilemma for charities and voluntary organisations in asylum and immigration policing. Thursday 27 November 2014, 6-8pm Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS Speakers: Imogen Tyler (Lancaster University) and author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain Frances Webber (Vice chair,
Theme: Violence and harassment
Screening of ‘Black Britannica’
A screening of David Koff’s historic Blacks Britannica (1978) hosted by South London Anti-Fascists. Thursday 30 October 2014, 7pm Cinema (Room RHB 185), Goldsmiths University, London SE14 6NW Blacks Britannica shows the realities of race and class in 1970s Britain with rare honesty and is a powerful base for thinking about racism and the state today.
Calendar of racism and resistance (4-16 October 2014)
A fortnightly resource for anti-racist and social justice campaigns, highlighting key events in the UK and Europe. Asylum seekers and refugees 6 October: Corporate Watch reveals that NHS England has awarded G4S a series of contracts worth some £23 million to run medical facilities at four immigration removal centres in the UK. (Corporate Watch, 6
The nature of a society is exposed at its margins
This graphic account of the plight of the undocumented in Amsterdam first appeared on the web site Dreaming in Exile. Since 2012, a group of people from a number of countries have formed a group in Amsterdam called ‘We Are Here’. There are men and women, old and young. Some have been here for many years.
Screening of ‘Burn’
Screening of a new documentary film Burn by Migrant Media plus a Q&A. Monday 20 October 2014, 6pm King’s College, Strand Campus, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS Speakers include: Stephanie Lightfoot Bennett – Sister of Leon Patterson (United Families & Friends Campaign) Ken Fero – Director of Burn Harmit Athwal – (IRR) Related links Migrant
Legal Aid – a defence of the fourth pillar of the welfare state
The Haldane Society’s annual human rights lecture series begins with a defence of legal aid. Wednesday 22 October 2014, 6.30-8pm Basement Lecture Theatre (GSB01), School of Law, London Metropolitan University, 16 Goulston Street, London E1 7TP Speaker: Matt Foot – criminal defence solicitor and co-founder of the Justice Alliance Related Links Download a flyer (pdf file, 48kb)
African refugees under attack in Israel
A Human Rights Watch report, criticising Israel’s inhumane treatment of African asylum seekers, provides an opportunity to reflect on the extension of the Prevention of Infiltration Law, first used against Palestinians in 1954. In recent weeks, Israeli nationalists, including ministers from the far-right Jewish Home party, have marched through the streets of Tel Aviv, with
‘Hell on Earth’ – a new film on immigration detention
A compelling documentary by Standoff Films lays bare the horror of Campsfield immigration removal centre in Oxfordshire. When Injustice, Ken Fero’s pathbreaking 2001 documentary about black deaths in custody was recently re-shown on London’s South Bank, Guardian film critic Peter Bradshaw was part of the post-screening panel. Bradshaw, describing his shock when he first watched
Calais/No Borders fundraiser
An evening of spoken word poetry and music to raise money and awareness in aid of the situation of migrants in Calais. SubrosA, 27 Lloyd Street South, Manchester M14 7HS Saturday 18 October 2014, 6pm Musicians: Beau Nafyde Kye Jones Music Navajo Hannah Slater and Keith Lythgoe Joe Yorke Related links No Borders Manchester See more
Talha Ahsan prison poetry reading
Readings of Talha Ahsan’s prison poetry. Sunday 19 October 2014, 7.30pm Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5 2RX Speakers and readers include: Hamja Ahsan – Brother of Talha Ahsan Patric Cunnane – Poet Kirsten Irving – Poet Related Links Free Talha Ahsan Hearing Eye poetry publishers