CHESTERFIELD / Monday 11 February / Refugees & Migrants welcome. Speakers include Brendan Woodhouse (Matlock firefighter & Sea Watch 3) Susie Hanley, Manjit Sahota / venue: Market Hall, Market Place, Chesterfield S40 1AR. Facebook event here
LEEDS / Friday 15 Feb / Rally against racism & fascism / The Rose Bowl – Leeds Beckett University, Portland Crescent, LS1 3HB 7.15pm with Richard Burgon MP, UCU VP Nita Sanghera & Steve Hedley, RMT Senior AGS. Facebook event here
Derby / Tuesday 19 Feb / Unite Against Racism & Fascism speakers include Iason Kouvdos Greek activist, Sonya Spectrum D & Windrush campaigner, 7pm, St Peter’s Church centre DE1 1SN Facebook event here
Coventry / Tuesday 19 Feb / A world without Racism and Fascism speakers include Nita Sanghera, vice president UCU, Labour Councillor Kindy Sandhu, Des Arthur CWU, plus refugee speaker and Anthony Owen local poet, 7pm, Esquires Coffee, Coventry Transport Museum, CV1 1JD Facebook event here
SHEFFIELD / Sunday 24 Feb / Only one Cyrille Regis – Films of Cyrille and his contemporaries, reunion of former playing colleagues, local Caribbean and Asian football communities, exhibition, commemorative programmes / Speakers include Paul Rees, author of ‘The Three Degrees’ – Cyrille Regis, Laurie Cunningham and Brendan Batson – the influential WBA players who changed the face of football in the 1970s, Chris Green, co-author of Cyrille’s biography ‘My Story’, Steven Kay, author of book on Sheffield United player Rab Howell, the first Romany to play for England, U-Mix Centre, S2 4UJ, Sheffield. Facebook event here
CROYDON / Tuesday 26 Feb 7pm / South London United against racism & fascism – speakers include Sarah Jones, Labour MP for Croydon Central, – Glen Hart, Selhurst RMT, – Esther Sutton, Croydon Green Party candidate – Croydon NEU – SUTR + more TBA Parchmore Methodist Church & Community Centre, 53-55 Parchmore Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 8LY. Facebook event here
WEST LONDON / Weds 27 Feb / Public rally with Leader of Ealing Council, Steve Hedley (RMT Senior AGS), Jewish Socialist Group speaker, Nahella Ashraf SUTR / St Mary’s Church Hall, South Ealing, W5 5RH. Facebook event here
SOUTH EAST LONDON / Weds 27 Feb / Fighting racist injustice with AssaTraore, Justice for Adama campaign, One of the #Stansted15, Naima Omar – Stand Up To Racism / New Cross Learning Centre, 283-285 New Cross Road, SE14 6AS.
Facebook event here
YORK / Thursday 28 February / York Stand Up To Racism/LMHR event with A Joker Among Thieves, Joe Solo + Crossfire Eagles / 7.30pm, Crescent Community Centre, 8 The Crescent, YO24 1AW Facebook event here
BIRMINGHAM / Thurs 28 Feb / Birmingham, Irish Centre, 14-20 High Street Digbeth, B12, 0LN / Chaired by Lee Barron Reg Sec TUC Midlands, Roger McKenzie Assist Gen Sec Unison, Eleanor Smith MP (invited), Naima Omar SUTR, Kedisha Burrell- Brown, Nas Popalzai – Artists include: Steel Pulse’s Basil Gabbiddon, Kurly and Zara Sykes – Poetry and Hip Hop Artists, Make It Happen Dance Company, Taneisha Deans aka Tanny Tizzle – Poet, Rob Punton – Poets Against Racism. Facebook event here
BLACK COUNTRY / Friday 1 March / Unite Against Racism & Fascism, speakers include Eleanor Smith MP, Azad Konor (author of Battle of Brick Lane 1978), Avtar Jouhl (Indian Workers Association), Steve Hedley (RMT Senior Assistant General Secretary), Azhar Qayum (Muslim Engagement and Development), Naz Popalzai (on seeking asylum), Alicia Spence (Black Community Mental Health Worker), Nahella Ashraf (Stand Up to Racism). With Bones (street poet) and Adrian (Caribbean DJ).
6.30pm, Heritage Centre. Clifford Street, Whitmore Rean Wolverhampton Facebook event here
MANCHESTER / Sat 2nd March 1pm-4pm / United Against Racism and Fascism Rally / Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, M1 6DD. Facebook event here.
Barnsley / Sat 2 March / 11am – 1pm / Showing of Children of Calais: A case to answer, Barnsley Central Library, Wellington House, Wellington Street. Facebook event here
Newcastle / Sat 2 March / 12-3.30pm /Newcastle Stands Up To Racism 2019 /
Speakers include UCU Vice President, Nita Sanghera, Amal Azzudin of the Glasgow Girls who led a successful campaign in 2005 at the age of 15 to stop her friend and their family from being deported and winning changes to asylum protocol and one of the Stansted 15. ..and a showing of “Stansted on trial”. Newcastle University Students Union, Kings Walk NE1 8QB Facebook event here
SWANSEA / Tuesday 5 March: We Stand Together! – trade unions and the fight against racism. Speakers include Roger McKenzie – Assistant General Secretary UNISON, Nita Sanghera – Vice President UCU, Amarjite Singh – CWU South East Wales Branch Secretary, Shav Taj – PCS National Officer, Wales and South West , 7pm, Ethnic Minorities & Youth Support Team, Units B&C, 11 St Helens, Road, SA1 4AB. Facebook event here
ISLINGTON / Thursday 7 March 7pm / Hosted by Islington Stands Up To Racism & Finsbury Park Mosque/ Speakers include: Claudia Webbe, Labour Party NEC & Labour councillor • Mohammed Kozbar, Finsbury Park Mosque • Michelline Ngongo Islngton Labour Councillor • Nahella Ashraf, Stand Up to Racism Rakhia Ismail Labour Councillor Ulrika Schmidt Amesty International Central Europe UK co-ordinator Steve Hedley Senior Assistant General secretary RMT Finsbury Park Mosque, N4 2QH
HACKNEY / Thursday 7 March: Unite Against Racism & Fascism / Speakers include Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott, NEU General Secretary Kevin Courtney, Weyman Bennett Stand Up To Racism and David Albrich – Austrian anti-fascist Facebook event here
NEWHAM / Friday 8 March / 7pm / Unite Against Racism & Fascism – International Women’s day rally / Speakers include Lyn Brown MP (West Ham) Rokhsana Fiaz, Mayor of Newham Rahime Mahmut, Uyghur Muslim human rights activist Louise Regan, National Officer, National Education Union (NEU) Jocelyn Cruywagen, Lambeth Unison Black Women’s Group Sabia Kamali, Sisters Forum CEO
Nahella Ashraf, Stand Up To Racism, St John’s Church Straford E15 1NG Facebook event here
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EAST LONDON / Tuesday 12 March / Film showing – From Cable Street to Brick Lane / Genesis Cinema, 93-95 Mile End, E1 4UJ. Facebook event here
SOUTH LONDON / Unite Against Racism & Fascism / Thursday 12 March / 7pm Speakers TBA soon. Themes: – #Stansted15 and fighting deportations – knife crime and institutional racism
– Justice for Windrush – Fighting for EU migrants’ rights
Chair: Jocelyn Cruywagen, Lambeth Unison Black Workers / Karibu Education centre, Gresham Road Brixton, SW9 7P Facebook event here
NOTTINGHAM / Weds 13 March / Unity in the Community, oppose racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism / Rabbi Tanya Saknhovich – of the Liberal Synagogue, Cecile Wright – Labour Party activist and Windrush Generation Campaigner, Manjit Sahota – Poets Against Racism, Mazher Hussain – Muslim Hands Facebook event here