Unfortunately the Water Lily venues have cancelled our booking as the organisation CAGE is one of the supporting organisations. This has meant that we have had to change our venue. Please see below
VENUE:
Amanah Centre, 251 Commercial Road, London E1 2BT
(Nearest stations: Shadwell / Whitechapel / Aldgate East)
Parking is available around the area and is free on Saturday but we cannot guarantee parking close to the venue will be found
DATE: Saturday, 13 June 2015
TIME: 2pm – 5pm
Entry is FREE. Lunch will be served at 1pm
Please confirm your attendance to ashiya@ihrc.org for registration/catering purposes
IHRC’s conference plans to address the UK government’s PREVENT strategy. For several years the Home Office has funded a programme supposedly to ‘Prevent Violent Extremism’. As a basic rationale, people espousing ‘non-violent extremism’ create an environment in which terrorists can operate and encourage ‘violent extremism’. Therefore entire Muslim communities must be monitored for ‘extremist’ ideas – defined as hostility to ‘British values’. This phrase conflates universal human values with the British state, whose foreign policy regularly contradicts the supposed values. In practice those who criticise UK foreign policy have been treated as ‘extremists’ by the Prevent programme.
This has spread fear within Muslim communities, as well as among voluntary organisations and public employees who are expected to implement the programme. Even worse, it is given a statutory basis by the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act.
Co-sponsored by the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) and the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
Speakers:
Marie Breen-Smyth – University of Surrey
Cerie Bullivant – CAGE UK
Leroy Logan – Founder & Chairman of REALLITY, retired policeman
Alex Kenny – National Union of Teachers, member of National Executive Committee
Arun Kundnani – New York University
Patricia McManus – member of UCU National Executive Committee, and Secretary of Brighton University UCU
Basmah Sahib – Bindmans LLP
Katy Sian – University of Manchester
Umit Yildiz – Universities and Colleges Union (UCU) Equality Officer
Supporting Organisations:
Bandung2
Bindmans LLP
Black Activists Rising Against Cuts
CAGE UK
Free Talha
Lewisham Islamic Centre
Muslim Directory UK
Netpol
NUS Black Students
Scotland Against Criminalising Communities
The Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
University and College Union
The programme is being live streamed online at www.ihrc.tv and recorded for upload to the IHRC YouTube/Vimeo etc. platforms. There will in addition be several members of the press at the conference. Usually we try and provide facilities for those who do not want to be filmed, however on some occasions we are unable to offer this, and this conference is one of those occasions. Therefore by attending you are agreeing to be filmed.
