LESE Race Relations Committee support Windrush Campaign 2020 Tuesday 10 Mar 2020

TUC LESE Race Relations Committee support Windrush Campaign 2020

Event details

Date

Tue, 10 Mar 2020 - 18:00 to 20:30

Location

TUC Congress House 23-28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS United Kingdom

Contact

lese@tuc.org.uk

Cost

FREE ADMISSION (Registration Essential)

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Overview

TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2020

18:00 – 20:30

TUC Congress House, 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

#WidenWindrush Campaign is a legal and political campaign to win an amendment to the Windrush Scheme. Currently the descendants and family members of the Windrush Generation – those who came after 1973 & 1988 are excluded from using the Windrush Taskforce (who operate the Windrush Scheme) to regularise their stay. This is because of the racism encoded in British Immigration legislation of 1968, 1971 and 1981.

Guest speakers:

* Antonia Bright, Movement for Justice Campaign Coordinator

* Declan Owens, Solicitor at Thompsons Solicitors

* Grace Brown, Barrister at Garden Court 

More information: HERE

Please register: lese@tuc.org.uk / 020 7467 1220

Movement for Justice stall

This event is supported by LESE Race Relations Committee

Windrush Impact Report, January 2019 (Alex Pascall)

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Prevent and the criminalisation of protest

Public meeting: Prevent and the criminalisation of protest 6.30pm Thursday 27th February 2020 Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London   Speakers: Lowkey Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott Kate Hudson from CND Lindsey German from Stop the War Ben Jamalfrom PSC, with contributions from Greenpeace & Stand Up to Racism Register In January 2020, organisations and protest groups campaigning for peace, environmental justice, human rights and animal rights, and against racism found themselves listed in a police counter-terror document. It is part of an alarming pattern of attacks on civil liberties and the right to protest. The state, under the guise of tackling terrorism, is increasingly surveilling and monitoring individuals and groups engaged in legitimate political and democratic processes. If this massive state overreach is not confronted, we risk losing further democratic freedoms that we presently take for granted. The campaign groups on the front line of these attacks have demanded that the police counter-terror document is immediately rescinded and repudiated, and are calling for an independent review of the Prevent strategy. Join us for a discussion about this dangerous threat to the progressive movements and be part of the campaign to push back. Please make sure you register to secure your seat

Forthcoming Lucas Plan events

Forthcoming Lucas Plan events
1. Parliamentary seminar/book and film launch
2. Regional screenings of THE PLAN March 1
3. New Mike Cooley Reader

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1. Planning from the bottom up: Lessons from the pioneering 1970s Lucas Plan
Hosted by John McDonnell MP 6:00 -7:30pm THURS 27th FEBRUARY, The Wilson Room, Portcullis House Westminster SW1A 2JR
A seminar to launch two new books on the Lucas Plan and regional screenings of THE PLAN. Register.
Speakers:
Steve Sprung, Director: THE PLAN that came from the bottom up Trailer
Hilary Wainwright, Author: THE LUCAS PLAN a new trade unionism in the making?
Tony Simpson, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Publisher: THE SEARCH for ALTERNATIVES Liberating human imagination

2. Regional screenings of THE PLAN March 1 (visit cinema websites for tickets)

“Described as ‘a film letter in parts’, THE PLAN that came from the bottom up is a thought-provoking and extensive film essay which chronicles the extraordinary story of the Lucas Aerospace engineers, who forty years ago responded to the threat of redundancy with their own plan of action.

The film documents how this group of workers developed alternatives to the military products their company made, including wind turbines and hybrid cars. By having the documentary structured as a film essay, the result is a poetic exploration of this incredibly timely story in history.”

Birmingham Midlands Art Centre
Cambridge Arts Picturehouse
Liverpool Picturehouse at FACT
London Bertha Dochouse
Norwich Cinema City Picturehouse
Sheffield Showroom

3. Publication of a new Mike Cooley Reader, The Search for Alternatives: Liberating Human Imagination
Spokesman Publishers have produced a new anthology of the writings of Mike Cooley, the leading thinker behind the Lucas Plan.
Foreword by John Palmer
Introduction by Karamjit S Gill
"we have become far too smart scientifically to survive much longer without wisdom"
Mike Cooley, The Myth of the Moral Neutrality of Technology
Chapters include:

• Contradication of Science & Technology in the Productive Process
• Science and Social Action
• Human Centred Systems

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LONDON CITY AIRPORT EXPANSION: FEBRUARY 11TH

DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LONDON CITY AIRPORT EXPANSION:  FEBRUARY 11TH Extinction  Rebellion Newham is organising a demonstration against the expansion of London  City.  This is a major event with national figures amongst those speaking.   People are asked to dress in black if they can and assemble  at the junction of  Wigmore  Street and Orchard Street, opposite NatWest and  Nationwide, which is at the South East corner of Portman Square at  9.00am.  The speeches will begin at 10am. At 11.00am, it will end.  This will be  a legal event.

UCU announces 14 strike days at 74 UK universities in February and March

3 February 2020 | last updated: 4 February 2020

Seventy-four UK universities* will be hit with 14 days of strike action in February and March, UCU announced today. The action will start on Thursday 20 February and escalate each week, culminating with a week-long walkout from Monday 9 to Friday 13 March.

The disputes centre on the sustainability of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) and rising costs for members, and on universities' failure to make significant improvements on pay, equality, casualisation and workloads. The full strike dates are:

• Week one - Thursday 20 & Friday 21 February
• Week two - Monday 24, Tuesday 25 & Wednesday 26 February
• Week three - Monday 2, Tuesday 3, Wednesday 4 & Thursday 5 March
• Week four - Monday 9, Tuesday 10, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 & Friday 13 MarchUniversities affected by strike action

Both disputes (47): 1. Aston University 2. Bangor University 3. Cardiff University 4. University of Durham 5. Heriot-Watt University 6. Loughborough University 7. Newcastle University 8. The Open University 9. The University of Bath 10. The University of Dundee 11. The University of Leeds 12. The University of Manchester 13. The University of Sheffield 14. University of Nottingham 15. The University of Stirling 16. University College London 17. The University of Birmingham 18. The University of Bradford 19. The University of Bristol 20. The University of Cambridge 21. The University of Edinburgh 22. The University of Exeter 23. The University of Essex 24. The University of Glasgow 25. The University of Lancaster 26. The University of Leicester 27. City University 28. Goldsmiths College 29. Queen Mary University of London 30. Royal Holloway, University of London 31. The University of Reading 32. The University of Southampton 33. The University of St Andrews 34. Courtauld Institute of Art 35. The University of Strathclyde 36. The University of Wales 37. The University of Warwick 38. The University of York 39. The University of Liverpool 40. The University of Sussex 41. The University of Aberdeen 42. The University of Ulster 43. Queen's University Belfast 44. Birkbeck College, University of London 45. SOAS, University of London 46. The University of Oxford 47. The University of East Anglia

Pay and conditions dispute only (22): 1. Bishop Grosseteste University 2. Bournemouth University 3. Edge Hill University 4. Glasgow Caledonian University 5. Glasgow School of Art 6. Liverpool Hope University 7. Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts 8. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh 9. St Mary's University College, Belfast 10. Roehampton University 11. Sheffield Hallam University 12. The University of Brighton 13. The University of Kent 14. Bath Spa University 15. Royal College of Art 16. University of Huddersfield 17. University of Winchester 18. University of East London 19. Leeds Trinity University 20. UAL London College of Arts 21. De Montfort University 22. University of Greenwich

USS pensions dispute only (5): 1. Scottish Association of Marine Science 2. Institute for Development Studies 3. Keele University 4. King's College London 5. Imperial College London