2019: Re-Imagining Brexit Britain - Reflections on the past, present and future
The vote to leave the European Union in June 2016 touched upon some of big themes about the future of the Britain as a nation state. Issues such as the backlash to globalization, inequality, the growing divide between cities and rural areas, identity, and blaming of migrants in the UK led to a rise in reported racism and hate crimes nationally in all areas- rural, suburban and urban since the Referendum vote.
Join us to think about these issues and listen to local people working to create an infrastructure challenges the growth of racism and xenophobia, and working to make a positive shift in the narrative on migration and racism
The event is part of the Monitoring Group’s Communities of Resistance project.
About the Speakers:
Stafford Scott is the coordinator at Tottenham Rights and a Race Advocacy Officer at The Monitoring Group.
Jagdish Patel is a researcher and photographer. He is currently working with The Monitoring Group researching post Brexit Racism. He writes for various publications, and works on various photo commissions. He is also a member of Primary studios, Nottingham.
Dr Elisabetta Zontini, before joining the University of Nottingham in 2007 Elisabetta conducted research on Italian transnational families at London South Bank University. Elisabetta has developed a transcultural and transnational perspective on families by working in European contexts (UK, Italy and Spain); with a multiplicity of cultural family constructions/relations and migrant groups; and documenting different forms of domestic relations which cut across the nuclear family, class, ethnicity, religion, nations, etc.
Victoria Mponda is a member of Migrants Organise, a platform where refugees and migrants organise for power, dignity and justice. They develop leadership and open spaces for relational, organised participation of migrants and refugees in public life. From two decades work as the Migrant and Refugee Communities Forum, they know that migrants and refugees make a positive contribution to our country. Migration is fact of life, instead of resisting it – let’s organise it.
Ahmed Peerbhai is Imam & Community engagement leader at Green Academy Trust Nottingham, a Religious Education and a Community Centre situated in the heart of the Radford & Basford areas of Nottingham City.
Rob G is part of the Nottingham City Monitor that was formed out of a group of concerned local parents and community people to inform/assist young people to ‘Know Your Rights’ when engaged by the Police during stop and search. They monitor activities and initiatives by the Police and disseminate this within our community via leafleting/ media/ film screenings/ meetings. They are also engaged and support other campaigns around poverty, social deprivations, asylum seekers and refugees as an attempt to build stronger grassroot networks using principles of self-help and mutual aid.
Abrar Javid is one of the Rotherham 12 Defendants and member of The Monitoring Group.
The Monitoring Group (TMG) wants to build networks across the country, grassroots network of people and groups who are able to support victims, challenge authorities, and counteract the negative racist narrative which blames Black, Asian, migrant, refugees and other people for a set of deep seated economic and social problems in Britain. This grassroots perspective aims to build ‘Communities of Resistance’ who can through discussions, active campaigns and programs to build leadership begin to challenge the language and debates around Brexit ahead of 2019. Come, listen, learn and help build ‘Communities of Resistance’.
Event:
2019: Re-Imagining Brexit Britain - Reflections on the past, present and futureDates:
9 Nov 2017, 6.30pm–8.30pmSupported by:
