A TUC seminar on hate crimes motivated by austerity. Thursday 3 July 2014, from 10.30-1pm TUC, Congress House, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS Speakers include: Nick Antjoule – Galop Stephen Brooks – Disability Hate Crime Netw0rk Estelle Boulay – Newham Monitoring Project Dr Julia Long – feminist and activist Related links Register here Download
Theme: Violence and harassment
Freedom to buy – of course! Freedom to move? Not if you’re poor
Andy Shallice reports on the impact of new meaures to restrict the rights of EU migrants, particularly the Roma. ‘In this world, shipmates, Sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers…’(Herman Melville, 1851 via Matthew Carr, 2012) Since April, no new housing
Asylum in Switzerland – out of sight, out of mind
Swiss asylum policy is characterised by institutional neglect within hostile systems designed to segregate and exclude. Feras Farees Abedal Motaleeb was a Palestinian refugee who, having fled from Iraq to Switzerland to save his life, found death in a remote Swiss valley, in an 8m² space in a metal container which he shared with two
‘Shopping for Peter’ and the question of incitement to racial hatred
Below we reproduce an article from RightsNI, by Daniel Holder, that analyses the controversy surrounding recent comments made by Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Peter Robinson and evangelical Pastor James McConnell. On Saturday hundreds of people lined up outside Tesco in Belfast city centre clutching ‘I am shopping for Peter’ posters, in a creative anti-racist protest
Stop and search training in Brixton
London Campaign Against Police and State Violence are offering training on what to do and what your rights are on stop and search. Sunday 15 June 2014, 2-4pm Unit 8, Warwick House, Overton Road, London SW9 7JP Related links London Campaign Against Police and State Violence Facebook event listing
Child & youth migrants
The third annual UCL Migration Research Unit Student Conference, postgraduates from across disciplines will share their research and contribute to debates in contemporary migration studies. Saturday 14 June 2014, 8.30-6.30pm University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Topics include: Young migrants’ access to education and healthcare Their treatment by different legal regimes Questions of identity and representation
No One Is Illegal
A No One Is Illegal meeting on immigration controls. Saturday 14 June 2014, 1-5pm Peoples Museum, Left Bank, Spinning Fields, Manchester M3 3ER Related Links No One Is Illegal
Funeral of Christine Case to take place
Christine Case died while being held at Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre on Sunday 30 March 2014. Her family is asking concerned individuals to attend the funeral to show their support. Christine Case, a 40-year-old Jamaican woman, died at Yarl’s Wood immigration removal centre near Bedford. Emergency services were called to the centre at around 8am but she
Explaining and learning from the ‘UKIP surge’ in South Yorkshire
John Grayson examines the factors behind UKIP’s recent successes in South Yorkshire. On Friday lunchtime 23 May, as the local government results flowed into the BBC TV studio, Nigel Farage nominated Rotherham in South Yorkshire as UKIP’s ‘most significant’ result. He claimed that UKIP had led in the popular vote (41 per cent to Labour’s
Naming the Narratives: the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham
In a week when twenty leading educationalists and Muslim leaders have questioned Ofsted’s impartiality in the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair, education consultant Robin Richardson reflects on the factors behind its controversial recent inspections. The Trojan Horse story in Birmingham is one in which carelessness, incompetence, coincidence, opportunism, self-interest and sheer wickedness all play significant parts.