Tuesday 23 March, Race, Policing and Rights
Suresh Grover, The Monitoring Group
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Conference 25-27 March 2010 University of Leeds Digging the Seam: Cultural Reflections and the Consequences of the 1984/5 Miners' Strike
Papers, panels, screenings, performances and exhibition materials are invited. 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the 1984/5 miners' strike. The social and political consequences of this dispute have been subject to detailed analysis and reflection but the consequences for the arts and popular culture are less clearly mapped. This conference intends to explore the broad cultural legacy of the strike. For a full outline see: http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=29th%20January%202009

Proposal should be sent to the organising committee at: ics-conferences@leeds.ac.uk or to Dr Eleri Pound, Digging The Seam Conference, Institute of Communications Studies, 16 Clarendon Place, The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK

Conference: Immigration and the challenges for the left
Friday 12 March, 6-8 pm,
UCL Cruciform Building, Cruciform Lecture Theatre, 2 Gower Street, London WC1

Conference on the political strategy of European democratic and radical parties to deal with growing racism in the EU area

Speakers: Claude Moraes MEP, Professor Sonia McKay, Senator Massimo Livi Bacci, Gabriele Zimmer MEP. Chair: Professor Keith Ewing. Discussants: Professor Andrea Biondi, Dr Paolo Novak. Organised by Associazione 25 Aprile, an association of democratic Italians in UK, with the support of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust.
For tickets: http://25aprile.eventbrite.com/

Petition on budget deficit
To sign a petition protesting against the current obsession with the budget deficit - organised by Pat Devine, Geoff Hodgson, David Purdy and Malcolm Sawyer - go to
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/budgetdeficithysteria/