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Trump, Brexit and Beyond: Building Bridges Not Walls

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Trump, Brexit and Beyond: Building Bridges Not Walls

This national one-day event will offer the opportunity for students and their communities to discuss and explore the current political global situation: how we got here, where we are going and what we can do to organise an effective, unified intersectional response.

Free entry – please register in advance.


Speakers include:

  • Janaya Khan ( co-founder Black Lives Matter Canada)
  • Gary Younge (author and journalist)
  • Malia Bouattia (NUS President)
  • Sally Hunt (UCU General Secretary)
  • Professor Paul Gilroy
  • Yasser Louatti (French civil rights activist)
  • Kevin Courtney (NUT General Secretary)
  • Adam Cooper (Why is My Curriculum White?)
  • Cinzia Arruzza (International Women's Strike)
  • Rachel Watters (Alliance for Choice Northern Ireland)
  • Waqar Hussain (TOEIC Victims UK)
  • Josh Nagli (Union of Jewish Students)
  • Hareem Ghani (NUS Women’s Campaign)
  • Gargi Bhattacharyya (UCU Black members)
  • Alina Muller (iStreetWatch)
  • Miqdaad Versi (Muslim Council of Britain)
  • Antonia Bright (Movement for Justice)

See the programme for full list of speakers.


Plenaries and workshops include:

  • #NoMuslimBan - Challenging Islamophobia
  • Liber8 Education – no barriers or borders
  • Women’s rights: building an intersectional movement
  • Tackling anti-Semitism
  • Practical tools for tackling hate crime
  • Defending International students – building anti-deportation networks
  • Confronting institutional racism in Education
  • #NoSpaceForHate – Reclaiming Social Media 


About the event:

Trump’s recent #MuslimBan and other executive orders have brought to attention the urgent need to build a strong and effective opposition to the politics of racism, division and fear. 

Trump’s toxic brand of racism and misogyny is repulsive and unacceptable, but it is part of a wider phenomenon that threatens us all and must be resisted. In France, fascist leader Marine Le Pen - who welcomed Trump’s election - is riding high in the polls for President. In Britain, poisonous anti-migrant campaigns waged around the referendum have fueled a significant spike in hate crime. Theresa May has wasted no time in making attacks on immigration and free movement central to the Brexit agenda.

Such rhetoric and measures are not entirely new. Only last year, tens of thousands of international students were deported or forced to leave the country after being falsely accused of cheating in an English language test –with thousands more still fighting for the right to remain. But they do represent an escalation of what has come before.

The on-going protests across the US and internationally are as inspiring as they are necessary. They show that by taking action and organising practical solidarity, we can push these attacks back. In the UK there are already a range of organising efforts taking place - whether its organising for the closure of detention centres; developing schemes to tackle hate crime and sexual harassment; campaigning against the prevent agenda or confronting structural racism in our own institutions.

In response to these rising concerns, NUS is hosting this one-day event –open to all – to discuss and assess the situation we find ourselves in and how we can all contribute to building an effective response the weeks and months to come.

This event is open to both student and non-students.

 

 

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Venue/Timing

Venue : SOAS, London

Type: Campaigns

Start Date: Sunday 12-03-2017 - 11:00

End date: Sunday 12-03-2017 - 18:00

Capacity: 350

Contact Details

events@nus.org.uk