Still We Rise

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience.*

Zarah Sultana is a Young Conscientious Politician on a Mission. In October 2019, she was selected as the Labour candidate for Coventry South. She’s just had her Jab, settles in and tells me it’s the first time she’s done an Interview in front of a Live Audience since Lockdown restrictions were lifted. 

She’s forthright and unambiguous about Her quest for Social Justice. She eviscerates Priti Patels ‘Evil’ New Plan for Immigration, her disdain palpable. Tuition Fee Debt is an albatross around Students Necks that she wants rid of. She’s instructive on Climate Change and lucid on how Coventry must situate itself for a Green Jobs Revolution.

Searingly Honest and impassioned, a Must Listen!

This podcast episode was recorded in front of a live audience.*

Aged 12, Gulwali survived a twelve-month trek from Afghanistan - crossing continents, suffering imprisonment and hunger, sailing across the sea in a tiny boat, and enduring a desolate month in the jungle at Calais, before he made it Britain. Here he was fostered, where he thrived in school and won a place to study at a top university.

"I'm Sabir Zazai, Chief Executive of Scottish Refugee Council, I arrived in the UK in the back of a Lorry’ with these words Sabir disarms most."

In this wide ranging conversation celebrating Refugee Week 2021 whose theme is ‘We cannot walk alone’ Sabir laments Britain’s proposed New Immigration Plan and chronicles his own journey to Leading through Lived Experience, his effusive and persuasive, Enjoy.

Britain is currently reforming its Asylum system and its Home Secretary, on the face of it, appears to have driven a coach and horses through the Refugee Convention of 1951. In this conversation with Dr Lucy Mayblin, A Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, she talks to us about the Convention and breaks it down to its simplest elements. Is Britain on the brink of breaching its obligations by contemplating these far reaching changes?

She explores what connects Colonialism and contemporary Asylum Policy. She confronts questions that almost seem incendiary, Is the Humanity of people seeking Asylum in Britain at best ambiguous? Where do conceptions of Humanity and differential rights derive, she situates them with histories of Hierarchical and exclusionary ideas over time. A Must Listen!

This week we speak to Alphonsine Kabagabo, Director of Women for Refugee Women.

Alphonsine survived the Rwandan Genocide and is one of a handful of Lived Experience Leaders in the Refugee Sector. She’s authoritative, steadfast and persuasive in this compelling conversation.

In this weeks Podcast we speak to Dr Kathryn Medien who is a Sociology Lecturer at the Open University. We examine her research into the development and use of internal borders in Britain as a form of racialised governance. She traces numerous elements of what we now know as the Hostile Environment to key Legislative changes in the 1970’s & 80’s.

The 1992 Sarajevo Siege is seared in Zrinka Bralo’s memory. 

In this wide ranging conversation with Colin Prescod, the Chair of the Institute of Race Relations, we explore what role Race and Class play in 21st Century Britain. 

He is lucid, bristling, provocative and picks apart contemporary Britain.

In the aftermath of the Sussex’s Oprah interview He speaks candidly on Race & the Royal Family, laments on that Boris Johnson encounter and is incandescent on Windrush.

It’s personal, historical and political.

In this podcast we talk to Ake Achi, the Founder and Director of Migrants at Work. We discuss the hurdles immigrants face applying for leave to remain, work permits and the working conditions in the UK.

In this episode, we speak with Last Mafuba the CEO & founder of Inini Initiative, a Coventry based mental health organization that works with people from the migrant community. Karen is a therapist for Inini.

Please visit www.inini.co.uk for more info.