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✊🏿Remembering anti-racist stalwarts in threatening times 🗞️⤵️IRR News this week includes: 🖊️ Editorial 📅 Calendar of Racism & Resistance 📰 New article by Insa Koch bit.ly/IRRNEWS20022...

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When they get at your children: how fascism is on the rise in the lead up to German elections. 🖊️In this piece Insa Koch describes an encounter with airport police which makes her fear for Germany’s future. irr.org.uk/article/when...

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🚨IRR News this week⤵️ The racist roots of last Summer's riots cannot be normalised 🖊️Editorial 🗓️Calendar of Racism & Resistance 📰 IRR statement 📚Latest issue of Race & Class bit.ly/IRRNEWS07022...

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The ‘hostile environment’ is a continuation of a long history of racist, xenophobic immigration policies - designed to exclude people of colour. It is a form of modern racism. Our new report shows the role politicians and the media play in fuelling the racist violence we saw six months ago.

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In the week marking six months since the racist riots, with over 60 other organisations we're calling on the government to take action on the growing threat of the far right. It's time our politicians lead by example, in policy and in practice. Read our joint statement 👉 ow.ly/iNw150UPuVw

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✍🏾 Runnymede Trust findings that the language used during parliamentary debates on immigration contributes to an environment of racism is reinforced today by IRR interim research on charging & sentencing patterns following the Summer 2024 racist riots. irr.org.uk/article/irr-...

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✊🏾It was great to work with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social & others on this joint statement now signed by over 60 racial justice, migrants rights & Muslim organisations who warn of the continuation of the racism that sparked the summer 2024 racist riots ⤵️ www.runnymedetrust.org/news/six-mon...

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Former seasonal agricultural workers have gathered outside the Home Office today to protest working conditions on farms and better modern slavery protections. Organised by @uvwunion.bsky.social Landworkers Alliance and Libera.

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Deputy Director role at the Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...

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IRR News this week 📰⤵️ Why we must challenge divisive ‘grooming gangs’ narratives 🖊️Editorial 🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance + a new graphic! 📚 Latest issue of Race & Class ⏰ Job Vacancy - deadline next Friday! 🗣️ Liminal event: Lexicon II bit.ly/IRRNEWS23012...

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🚨NEW ARTICLE 📰 🇵🇸Interrupting circulations: the politics of infrastructure in contemporary mobilisations for Palestine by Sigrid Corry & Charlotte Rose in the latest issue for Race & Class. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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🗓️In this week's calendar we highlight events that have unfolded over the past month including public declarations from figures like Elon Musk which stir up moral panics, as well as reporting on issues of anti-fascism & far right activity in UK & Europe ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/cale...

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⏰🚨Just under a month left to apply to join our team! More info ⤵️

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📣Come work with us! IRR is looking for a dynamic Deputy Director to help drive the organisation forward in these challenging times so that it can fulfil its mission to educate, inform and influence people across society. Find out more and apply here ⤵️ irr.org.uk/about/vacanc...

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❤️‍🩹Today marks the seventh anniversary of A.Sivanandan’s death 🔥His work still remains so vital to our movements today with his writing and teaching being key ✊🏿On building communities of resistance he said:

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In case you missed it - we're hiring a Deputy Director to join the IRR team! ⏰ Deadline end of January. Apply below ⬇️

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Calendar of Racism and Resistance (26 November–10 December) Thanks also to [...] the Never Again Association, whose regular updates on migration, far right, racial violence, employment and policing issues are an invaluable source of information. @irrnews.bsky.social irr.org.uk/article/cale...

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Police raids on London’s Kurdish community – an update Last month Labour Hub reported on the coordinated police raids on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, north London at 2am on 27th November, as well as on the private homes of individuals and their families . Here we provide an update,…

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IRR NEWS THIS WEEK! 📰IRR statement on counter-terror raid on Haringey's Kurdish Community Centre 🖊️Editorial 🗓️ Calendar of Racism & Resistance 🆕 Job vacancy for IRR Deputy Director bit.ly/IRRNEWS12122...

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Kurdish community demands decriminalisation after violent police raids netpol.org/2024/12/03/k...

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😍🚨 @irrnews.bsky.social is looking for a Deputy Director to help develop its next phase as a radical, uncompromising educational body, which "thinks in order to do", so as to eliminate the violence of state and structural racism 🚨😍

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