UK Indymedia - UK Newswire Archive

Refugees in Calais. Why we say NO BORDERS!

26-06-2009 23:44

A few years ago that nice Mr Sarkozy (then French home secretary) was desperate to impress that even nicer Mr Blair. So to capitulate to Mr Blair and his masters in the British tabloid media, he closed the Red Cross Sangatte refugee camp near Calais. Prior to its demolition Sangatte was a place where vulnerable refugees fleeing places like Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan could get food, healthcare and a bed for the night. By a staggering coincidence Great Britain has had rather a lot of influence in the fortunes of Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. So some people might suggest that we have a slight responsibility with regard to helping these people? Now (post Sangatte) they have to sleep under bridges and in dangerous camps where they are regularly attacked by the Police and local racists. Fortunately they are being fed each day by a number of unpaid volunteers from the Calais based 'Salam' charity who are doing an amazing job.

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Freedom of movement?

26-06-2009 21:50

Road blockade to Calais port at the No Borders camp and police repression

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Workers' Fightback: Update 8

26-06-2009 21:29

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked...

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Motorway Blocked By No Borders Campers – Pics

26-06-2009 21:20

A group No Borders protesters blocked the E15 motorway south bound carriageway for a short time before forced off the road back into the camp.

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American Animal Activist Just Released from Secretive Prison Speaks Out

26-06-2009 19:48

interview with Andrew Stepanian, an animal rights activist who was jailed at a secretive prison known as a Communication Management Unit, or CMU. Stepanian is believed to be the first prisoner released from a CMU...

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Motorway blocked by Calais Noborder Campers

26-06-2009 19:10

Just now, at 8pm UK time, a few people from the Calais NoBorder camp have blocked the motorway that goes alongside the camp.

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The repercussions & threat of Bio-technology on Humanity from The Codex Alimenta

26-06-2009 18:25

The Basic Human Right to Human & Environmental Health is disappearing by the end of this year. Human DNA can now be contaminated, patented & owned. - The largest uncontrolled experiment on life in human history, the consequences of which cannot be fully predicted.

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NoBorder Calais Friday 26.06.2009

26-06-2009 17:30

This is a short summary of the Friday, 2606.2009 on the No Border camp.

Lots of things happen at the same time at different places so if you ve got something to add please write a comment.

Pictures | Video from the Police ath the Camp | Video from the Lock on action early in the morning

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Nicaragua: Campaign against Grupo Pellas lacks scientific evidence

26-06-2009 16:47

CKD campaign against Grupo Pellas and Nicaragua Sugar Estates and Flor de Caña Boycott by ANAIRC and UITA lack scientific evidence. Informative article on chronic kidney failure disease, its causes, and lack of scientific evidence linking it to sugarcane growing.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 26 2009

26-06-2009 15:01

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 20th to the 26th, 2009.

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Pictures from Calais, 26.06.2009

26-06-2009 13:22

recent photographs from inside the calais no borders camp

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BNP election agent has AR past

26-06-2009 10:43

A British National Party candidate in a Croydon, south London, by-election this month was an animal rights activist who served a prison sentence for a campaign of terror against an animal research laboratory.

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Lindsey wildcat strikers offered reinstatement!

26-06-2009 09:02

A week ago, 51 workers at Lindsey Oil Refinery were sacked for their role in January's dispute over the use of overseas companies to undermine union agreed pay and conditions. More than 4,000 joined the LOR workers in a wave of wildcat strikes over the past week. Now Total, their employer, has agreed to offer them their jobs back.

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A Journalist Beaten -- One Year Later

26-06-2009 07:48

June 26, 2008 is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day I was detained, interrogated, strip searched, and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr Jamil and I sharing the Martha Gellhorn Journalism Prize in London -- an award given to journalists who expose propaganda which often masks egregious human rights abuses.

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Latest No Borders scare story

26-06-2009 07:38

Read below for the latest crap slung out by the Daily Mail (faithfully reproduced in the Metro) about the NoBorder camp.
This is a huge debate to be had, but I am pretty sick of them saying what they want with no reprisals - one of the better aspects of climate camp is their willingness to attack media lies, forcing many retractions/apologies etc - maybe the same is needed here. If the press knew they would be challenged on every ridiculous lie printed about the anarchist movement, they may be a little more hesitant to print them. Anyways, the article is re-posted below -

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Demo against Notts Police & £700,000 bill for arresting 114 enviro activists

26-06-2009 01:10

on Wednesday June 24th at 9.30am at Nottinghamshire County Hall, Trent Bridge, Nottingham. A Demonstration against the Notts Police Authority meeting had been organised. The object, to demand that the Notts Police are Accountable for their recent actions.

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Calais report; Riot police surround leafleters in Calais town centre

25-06-2009 21:54

Around 4pm this afternoon around 30 people from the No Border Camp went to Calais town centre in order to distribute the NOMADE newsletter and to talk to Calais residents about the aims of the camp. Given the high level of police surveillance the group were not able to travel together but had arranged to meet at a central location.

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Nomad - calais noborder camp journal

25-06-2009 20:18

People are putting together a newspaper every day here in the camp.

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Beginning of the End in Iran

25-06-2009 20:17

Ayatollah Khamenei’s June 19 speech reminded many Iranians of some of the utterances of the shah in the last months of his rule: former president and current chairman of the ‘assembly of experts’ Ali Akbar Rafsanjani cannot be corrupt – he has been the supreme leader’s friend for over 50 years! Everyone in Iran had accepted the results of the elections: it was all the fault of foreign powers and foreign media that some people are now doubting them! Conspiracies are all around us and, just as in colonial times, the British are behind it.

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Stories from people trying to cross the border

25-06-2009 19:57

Behind all the scare stories and fiction of the tabloid scum press, we are making friends with people here who gradually tell us their stories. Obviously they are scared of what would happen if their stories were made public but have agreed to let us tell people the rough outlines. All names have been changed.