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United for Education demonstration
Challenging racism remains a key challenge for students. The refugee crisis continues, with thousands of people left to drown or locked out by border fences. Our classmates face racist profiling from Prevent, international students are forced to pay high fees, and the rights of EU students are being used as a bargaining chip by Theresa… Read more »
International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
The focus of the campaign around the 9 November is to join forces and build a strong movement capable of fighting fascism in all its forms. Antifascist, antiracist, Jewish and Roma organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network commemorate the “Kristallnacht”, which took place on 9 November 1938. This partly state-organised pogrom against German… Read more »
Combating racial discrimination and intolerance in Norway: a Round Table of the Anti-racism Commission of the Council of Europe in Oslo
Prevent: Racist and Islamophobic
The ‘Prevent’ duty aims to identify those individuals likely to cause a threat to the state but it in fact spies on us all and attempts to eliminate dissent of any kind.As it overwhelmingly targets and criminalises the Muslim community we discuss how toxic it will be as it spreads through our public sector, colleges… Read more »
European Action Week Against Racism: Strength in Diversity – annual
21 March is the International Day for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, established by The General Assembly of the United Nations in 1966 following the brutal murder of 69 protestors in the South African township of Sharpeville in 1960. The massacre occurred while they had gathered to protest against the apartheid laws… Read more »
International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism
The focus of the campaign around the 9 November is to join forces and build a strong movement capable of fighting fascism in all its forms. Antifascist, antiracist, Jewish and Roma organisations both inside and outside the UNITED network commemorate the Kristallnacht”, which took place on 9 November 1938. This partly state-organised pogrom against German… Read more »
ECCAR General Conference
Racial Discrimination and Criminal Justice in the EU
The 2012 convictions for the murder of Stephen Lawrence again brought into sharp focus the problematic interaction between racial discrimination and criminal justice. However, this is not just a British problem. Join a panel of leading voices from politics, academia and legal practice to as they explore issues at the nexus of race, EU law… Read more »
The Race Relations Act at 50
Participation fee: 50 GBP waged, 20 GBP unwagedIt is now 50 years since the introduction of the first Race Relations Act in 1965. Race relations in Britain have come a very long way since cases like the Scala Ballroom and the Smethwick by-election of 1964. There is much room for celebration – Britain is arguably… Read more »
