Writing Resistance: Literature in Exile

Image: Maryam Ashrafi

The voice of Exiled Writers
Thu 21 June, Human Rights Action Centre, London

Exiled Writers event in collaboration with English PEN and Amnesty International. Once in the UK, many exiled writers and artists remain intimately connected with the continuing struggles in their own countries, expressing their resistance through their art. This can be  empowering for the artist, but is it effective in shifting consciousness in their country of origin? Exiled writers from Palestine, Iraq, Zimbabwe and Uzbekistan - including Hilton Mendelsohn, Fawzi Kerim,  Hamid Ismailov, and Ghada Karmi – will read from their work and discuss the issues it raises. Free but must pre-book. See details at http://www.amnesty.org.uk/events_details.asp?ID=404
More Exiled Writers events on their website at http://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/

Let Them Grow Up Here/ Laissez-les grandir ici

Let Them Grow Up Here! (Laissez-les grandir ici!) is a film about
children of undocumented migrants, who voice their need for support and
mobilisation and who want their families to be regularized. The French
Education Without Borders Network (RESF – Réseau éducation sans
frontières) and 350 professionals were involved in the making of the
film. The film will serve as a support for a nationwide petition in
France of the same name and can be viewed at:
http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/spip.php?article4631
Education Without Borders Network
(RESF – Réseau éducation sans frontières)

National Petition
63348 Signatures
Sign here:
http://www.educationsansfrontieres.org/?article4633

Translate a web page:
French to English
French to german
http://www.google.co.uk/language_tools?hl=en

Source: PICUM Newsletter
http://www.picum.org

Collusion between Education and Immigration Controls
(PDF)
http://noii.trick.ca/_cache/noii_no_collusion.pdf