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  • Transforming Local Infrastructure Organisations – is it transforming and is it local? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill University and ARVAC National Management Committee) writing in a personal capacity reflects upon the latest intervention from the centre : ” The Transforming Local Infrastructure initiatives is one of those centrally led ideas which appears to be a contradiction of what it says – is it transformative and is it […]
  • AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS – MORE OF THE SAME OR IS IT ABOUT TO GET WORSE? 15/05/2012
    Professor John Diamond (Edge Hill Business School and a Management Committee member of ARVAC – writing in a personal capacity): ” The local election results in the England, Scotland and Wales at the start of the month appeared to confirm most of the predictions across the media – the Liberal Democrats lost (big time) – […]
  • WHAT MATTERS IS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE LOCAL ELECTIONS 01/05/2012
    As the excitement (generated by the media) over who will win in London increases and the media / political pundits obsess over the relative scores that Cameron or Miliband have to reach in order to justify their claims that they are “winning” a much more significant story is unfolding below the radar. There are two […]
  • CUTTING PUBLIC SPENDING IS STILL THE COALITION’S PRIORITY NOT CUTTING TAX AVOIDERS 18/04/2012
    There is a sense this past week when you have to blink to check that what you are reading is right. The headlines in the popular press have the Coalition in the UK (and the Conservative bit in particular) the champions of curbing tax avoiders. At the same time the last budget broadly favoured the […]
  • MAYORS, LOCALISM AND HAVING A VOICE: WHY THIS IS REALLY A MAKEOVER RATHR THAN A NEW START 12/04/2012
    There will be a number of local referenda this May on whether we should (in some of the larger cities) opt for an elected mayor. In some places (including Liverpool) there will be elections for a directly elected mayor. This is the “big idea” to transform local politics. It was introduced by New Labour as […]

Cross-point Anti-Racism

The Crosspoint links currently over 2000 organizations in 112 countries!  Covers human rights, anti-racism, refugees, anti-fascism etc.

 

http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/

April 1st, 2009 | Tags: | Category: anti-racism, civil liberties, immigration | Leave a comment

Statewatch

Statewatch database monitors the state and civil liberties in the UK and Europe.  The database contains over 21,000 entries with news, features, books, pamphlets, reports, EU resolutions and agreements.

For full contents see: Statewatch News online with analysis, documentation, news in brief and News Archives 2000-ongoing or What’s New: which lists all News Online and News [...]

April 1st, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: civil liberties, uk government | Leave a comment

Electronic Immigration Network (EIN)

EIN is a specialist provider of information on UK immigration and refugee law via the Internet. EIN also contains information on immigration/asylum issues and caselaw from the European Union and selected documents from other English-speaking jurisdictions.

EIN is a membership organisation and a registered charity.

The site comprises two main areas: The Members’ Site and [...]

April 1st, 2009 | Category: civil liberties, equality, immigration | Leave a comment
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