At the Racial Justice Network we understand the gravity of speaking to injustices faced by Black, Brown and migrant communities within West Yorkshire. Our reports are written under a race lens, using evidence, statistics, research and real lived-experiences to draw out and expose historical and current institutional and systemic racisms. Find our work below:
Unlearning Racism Report
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
March | 2024
The report is one of reflection, learning and accountability to our communities, Black and Brown-led movements and ourselves. It centres the voice and experience of Black and Brown-led movement leaders as a measure of whether the Unlearning Racism Programme has served its purpose and fulfilled its aims. Whilst also reflecting the experience of the white people who have been part of this process from the beginning, who have held the work under the leadership and mentorship of Black and Brown movement leaders and elders.
We encourage all readers to explore the report-in-full, which delves into the extensive aspects of the programme. The report sheds light on the many ways whiteness and white supremacy have manifested within the programme, impeding the transformative potential of the work. The report offers an honest reflection on the learning experience that confronts the complexities, contradictions, and challenges inherent in the work, particularly when being held by white-bodied people.
The Race & Climate Justice Report
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
DEC | 2023
We are proud to launch our latest report on our reflections and learning from the first three years of the ’13th recommendation’.This is our heartfelt gift to the climate justice movement, in service of communities most harmed. We hope it galvanises support for those who continue to resist colonial domination and plunder and support their life-giving and life-affirming relationships to the earth.
The report aims to ensure that the building blocks of the 13th are documented, shared and embodied by all those working, organising and mobilising in the climate movement. The report acknowledges, celebrates and uplifts our knowledge systems and knowledge production and the international, intersectional and inter-generational decolonial methods we embody.Uses our learning to actively resist being drawn into the ‘status quo’ of Eurocentricity. Documents our legacy, and in doing so, save our energy in resisting the ongoing erasure of our relationship to the 13th – why and what it is about and how it came to be.
Mobilisiation Against Police Use of Biometric Fingerprint & Facial Recognition Technology
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
NOV | 2022
A brand-new report on the increased use of the Biometric Services Gateway (mobile fingerprinting) by police forces across the UK. We analyse the latest data obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests from April 2020 to December 2021.
Migrant Communities Covid 19 Report
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
July | 2021
a new report written to draw attention to the experiences of migrant communities within West Yorkshire. The report discusses issues that arose from being caught between a rock and hard place that is policies, legislations and marginalisation that extend from structural racism whilst dealing with a global pandemic
Stop The Scan Report
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
June | 2021
According to research by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) there is a general trend in which minority ethnic people are stopped and searched more regularly across Europe.
Hate Crime & System(ic) Injustice: a Report
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK
November | 2020
The report emerges in wake of imminent talks around the upcoming Brexit deadline set for 31st December, and presents hate crime as an inevitable consequence of Brexit discussions and two other key elements namely Covid-19 and the hostile environment policy.
Content warning: Please be aware, some may find the content of the report distressing as there are real life cases of hate crime documented by participants in the report.
Report on the public perception of police fingerprint scanning
BY THE RACIAL JUSTICE NETWORK & YORKSHIRE RESISTS
January | 2021
This report discusses issues that arose from an online survey (115 participants) conducted on the public’s perception of the mobile fingerprinting app at the end of 2020, as well as data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) on the use of mobile biometrics in West Yorkshire during the latter phase of the pilot, between October 2018 and March 2019.
Keep up to date with the Racial Justice Network below!
- Decolonise Your Mind
Elder and Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s prolific works has lessons for us on resistance to the continued project of imperialism and colonialism. - Unlearning Racism Programme Report: Reflections And Learnings From The Past Seven Years
The Unlearning Racism report is one of reflection, learning and accountability to our communities, Black and Brown-led movements and ourselves. It centres the voice and experience of Black and Brown-led movement leaders as a measure of whether the Unlearning Racism Programme has served its purpose and fulfilled its aims. - 7 days to go! Upcoming Unlearning Racism Report Launch on the 21st of March
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