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Join us at a public event in Amsterdam. How can we make sense of the exponential growth of the extreme-right in Europe and the US? Four experts on racism, the populist right and islamophobia will talk about the extreme political climate we are currently seeing and the prospects for a new politics of hope and solidarity.
With speakers: Anousha Nzume, Arun Kundani, Ben Hayes and Hakima Abbas (tbc).
Tickets are 5 Euro
Doors open 19.30.
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Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, policy analyst and African feminist. Abbas is co-executive director of the women's right organisation AWID. For two decades she has been active in struggles for social justice on issues of self-determination, race, class, gender and sexuality. Abbas has focused on strengthening and supporting movements for change in Africa and the Middle East. Some of her publications are Aid to Africa: Redeemer or Coloniser? and People-led Transformation: African futures.
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Arun Kundnani writes about race, Islamophobia, political violence, and surveillance. Kundnani is former editor of the journal Race & Class and currently a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. His latest book is The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror. Kundnani is also the author of the book The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain, which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year in 2007.
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Anousha Nzume is an activist, writer, actress, TV-presenter and comedian. Nzume recently published the book Hallo Witte Mensen (Dear White People) about write privilege and other forms of racism. She has moderated demonstrations for LGBT-rights in Russia and against the trade and investment agreements TTIP and CETA. Nzume has been outspoken in the public debate about the racist character "Black Pete" that is part of the Dutch Sinterklaas holiday. |
Ben Hayes is a fellow and researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) on security policies, counter-terrorism, border control and data protection. He has worked with the civil liberties organisation Statewatch since 1996. His 2009 investigation into the European Security-Industrial Complex (published by TNI, NeoConOpticon) was downloaded over a million times and catalysed reform of EU security research policy. Hayes also co-edited the book The Secure and the Dispossessed - How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.
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