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SUMMARY:Who is Britain really saving in the fight against modern slavery?
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Ma
 laysia Auditorium\, Centre Building)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 6 May 2026 6.30pm - 8pmAs Black Lives Matter has exp
 osed the legacies of transatlantic slavery and empire\, Britain has launch
 ed a new moral crusade at home: the fight against “modern slavery.” Th
 is panel discussion marks the launch of Drugs\, Race and the Politics of M
 odern Slavery Law by Insa Lee Koch and asks what this crusade is really do
 ing.Focusing on the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the policing and prosecuti
 on strategies enabled in its wake\, the panel examines how young Black and
  racialised working-class men involved in Britain's street level economy o
 f heroin and crack cocaine — once criminalised under the war on gangs 
 — are now recast as "modern slaves" and their "masters". Central to the 
 discussion is Glodi Wabelua\, the first young man convicted under modern s
 lavery laws for a county lines drugs offence. Bringing together ethnograph
 ic insights\, leading anti-racism campaigners and lived experience\, the e
 vent interrogates how modern slavery law deepens racial inequality while a
 llowing Britain to deny its imperial past.Meet our speakers and chairLiz F
 ekete is Director of the Institute of Race Relations and an Advisory Edito
 r of Race & Class. Liz was part of the CARF Collective\, and an expert wit
 ness at the Basso Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) on asylum and the Wo
 rld Tribunal on Iraq. Her second book Europe’s Fault Lines: racism and t
 he rise of the Right won the Bread and Roses award for Radical Publishing
  2019.Insa Lee Koch is a writer\, advocate-researcher and professor at the
  University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and a visiting professor in the L
 SE Law School. Trained in both anthropology and law\, she has published aw
 ard-winning work on topics of inequalities\, class\, racism and community 
 resistance. She is author of Drugs\, Race and the Politics of Modern Slave
 ry Law: when Enemies Become Victims which is available open access.Kojo K
 yerewaa is a founding member of Black Lives Matter UK (BLM UK)\, where he 
 remains as the National Organiser. BLM UK was founded by anti-racist activ
 ists in 2016\, it was inspired but is independent from the US-based organi
 sation. It is a member-led\, campaigning organisation working towards coll
 ective liberation. Kojo is also a founding member of Against Borders for C
 hildren\, a grassroots campaign which successfully in 2021 deleted the UK 
 Home Office child migrant database.Glodi Wabelua is a community advocate w
 hose lived experience features centrally in Drugs\, Race and the Politics 
 of Modern Slavery Law. His conviction under human trafficking law in a dru
 gs-related case was the first of its kind and made precedent in English la
 w. Today\, Glodi is passionate about community outreach and education. He 
 is the creator and host of the GloTalks podcast\, the founder of GloFitnes
 sUK promoting wellbeing\, and delivers talks and mentoring in schools and 
 prisons.Coretta Phillips is a Professor of Criminology and Social Policy a
 t LSE. She joined the Department of Social Policy in 2001\, and her resear
 ch interests lie in the field of race\, ethnicity\, crime\, criminal justi
 ce and social policy. Since 2022\, her major research efforts have focused
  on a multi-disciplinary ESRC project providing the first systematic\, com
 prehensive and historically grounded account of the crime and criminal jus
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