UK Newswire Archive
Greece: Steelwork strikers welcome neo-Nazis
18-02-2012 11:15
Taken from Contra Info:Aspropyrgos, Attica: Neo-Nazis ‘support’ the Greek Steelworks strikers, and workers’ spokesmen and several other strikers welcome the scum warmly, instead of kicking their ass
Boycott Workfare National Day of Action, 3rd March, Poundland Picket
18-02-2012 10:16
Picket & Demonstration outside Poundland, on Union Street in Birmingham City Centre calling for them to withdraw from workfare schemes. If they have withdrawn before the 3rd of March, we will picket Tesco on New Street instead. If Tesco have withdrawn make sure you check here to see who else remains.No Borders Communique to Immigration Prisoners
17-02-2012 21:24
You are not forgotten!
This is a communiqué from the 'No Borders Network'
Power Grab by Guild Managers
17-02-2012 18:58
Recent Trustee Board meeting of University of Birmingham Guild of Students votes to shift power significantly from students to managers.Robert green gets sentence in stonehaven court for preventing child abuse supporters read on
17-02-2012 18:55
ROBERT GREEN JAILED BY SHERRIF BOWEN
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1779/556/OUTRAGEOUS_ROBERT_GREEN_JAILED_F...
IS THIS JUSTICE SCOTLAND ? ASK THE PUBLIC ?
Facebook users report Robert Green on Hunger Strike and he FEARS FOR HIS LIFE
http://holliedemandsjustice.org/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/onevoiceforthekids/
Robert Green - Hollie Demands Justice campaigner jailed today in Scotland.
17-02-2012 18:55
Robert Green - Hollie Demands Justice campaigner jailed today in Scotland.
The Hollie Demands Justice campaign very much regrets the decision today of the Sheriff Court in Stonehaven to deprive Robert Green of his Liberty.
Despite breaches of Mr Green's human rights and repeated irregularities in law and process by the police, the legal profession and the court system since Ro
Queer - 24th-26th February 2012
17-02-2012 18:54
The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children:Our Ultimate Investment'
17-02-2012 17:52
The Guardian newspaper funds Huxley’s ‘Children: Our Ultimate Investment’. 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' includes 'Project Caressing' which instructs toddlers to be tactile with elderly men. Liability issues ended this in the US, but Laura Huxley's 'Children: Our Ultimate Investment' is doing well in the UK.Victory at Connexions as Unison Campaign Secures Jobs and Services
17-02-2012 15:59
Over 100 staff at Connexions had good news this week after hearing that Birmingham City Council have backed down and withdrawn the threat of redundancies, stating that there will not be any more cuts to this vital service in the coming financial year. We hope that whoever is in power following the council elections in May will provide a continued commitment to Connexions.Breaking news on Robert Green campaigner in Scotland.
17-02-2012 15:41
Robert Green sentenced to 12 months imprisonment today.Occupation of Barnado's HQ against child detention
17-02-2012 14:55
Tens of No Borders activists are currently occupying the headquarters of Britain's largest children charity, demanding that it “quits the child detention business”.
The latest protest at Barnardo's offices in Barkingside, Essex, started at 1pm in a bid to force the charity to stop providing its services at a new detention facility near Crawley, Sussex, to hold families facing forcible deportation.
Anti-detention campaigners argue that by agreeing to provide welfare and social care services at this 'family detention centre', named Cedars, Barnardo's is used to legitimise the continued use of detention for children, which the government promised in 2010 to stop doing. [1]
The converted school is officially described as 'pre-departure accommodation', but campaigners argue it has all the characteristics of a detention centre but the name. With a 2.5m perimeter fence and 24-hour security, it is run under the Detention Centre Rules by notorious security company G4S, which runs three other immigration detention centres. [2]
Jo Taylor, one of the activists taking part in the protest, said:
“Barnardo's involvement with Cedars makes its motto, 'Believe in children', sound like a cynical joke. The charity seems to also believe in locking children up. Many of Barnardo's staff and customers will be appalled to know about this involvement, and that's why we're here.”
In July last year, Barnardo's set some 'red lines' for its involvement in the scheme, in what appears to have been a desperate attempt to reassure critics of its controversial decision. [4] The conditions included withdrawing services if more than 10 percent of the families deported in the first year of the trial went through the centre; if any family has stayed at the centre more than once or for longer than the one week maximum; or if disproportionate force is used with a family on route to or from the centre. [3]
Campaigners say many of these conditions have been breached repeatedly. Many families have reported suffering from trauma and being subjected to verbal abuse and physical assaults by the security guards. At least one family is known to have been held at the centre for over one week.
Hours before the protest started, a Kurdish woman with two daughters, aged 2 and 11, was due to be forcibly deported to Turkey, where she would have faced persecution and possible death. [5] The family had been arrested three days before in a dawn raid, described as “horrific”, and transferred to Cedars. Thankfully as a result of campaigns against the deportation the family have been released and are on their way back to Gloucestershire.
The protest coincides with a week-long 'convergence' of No Borders activists from across Europe in London. The event's callout had called upon supporters to “take action against various aspects of the border regime in London and the surrounding areas.” [6]
This is not the first time that Barnardo's has been the target of protest over child detention. Since Cedars was opened, campaigners have picketed and leafleted staff and customers at various Barnardo's charity shops, as well as its headquarters in Barkingside, Essex. [7]
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Notes for editors:
[1] In May 2010, the new coalition government 'committed' to ending child detention for immigration purposes as part of a "new, compassionate approach to family removals." However, while families with children due to be forcibly deported are no longer held in normal immigration detention centres, they are instead placed in new secure facilities, euphemistically named 'pre-departure accommodation'. The first such centre to open in late summer was Cedars in Pease Pottage, near Crawley, West Sussex. For more on this and other planned family detention centres, see
http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3881.
[2] Families and children held at Cedars are arrested and administratively detained under the provisions of the 1971 Immigration Act. They are subject to the Control and Restraint Techniques used across the detention estate. Detained children are only allowed out of the facility under strictly controlled circumstances. This clearly amounts to a continued use of the detention of children for immigration purposes. For more on this, see http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/473.
[3] See
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news_and_events/media_centre/press_releases.htm?ref=70802
[4] See
http://www.barnardos.org.uk/news_and_events/current_news.htm?ref=67322
[5] See http://www.ncadc.org.uk/campaigns/perihan/.
[6] The No Borders Convergence 2012 (13th – 18th February) is a week-long event featuring workshops, meetings and actions against the border regime. The callout and programme can be found at
http://london.noborders.org.uk/convergence2012.
[7] For more details on previous protests against Barnardo's, see
http://london.noborders.org.uk/taxonomy/term/173.
Britain’s secret proxy war in Syria
17-02-2012 14:38
Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists need your solidarity and support!
17-02-2012 14:09
A call for coordinated actions around the world on March 16–18, 2012Friends and comrades! We, the anti-fascists and anarchists of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia), appeal to concerned people around the world. The political police (the Center for Combating Extremism or Center “E”) have fabricated a criminal case against our comrades. Anti-fascism has been outlawed in our city. We need your solidarity and support!
Activists occupy Barnardo's HQ demanding they quit the child detention business
17-02-2012 13:46
Tens of No Borders activists are currently occupying the headquarters of Britain's largest children charity, demanding that it “quits the child detention business”.The latest protest at Barnardo's offices in Barkingside, Essex, started at 1pm in a bid to force the charity to stop providing its services at a new detention facility near Crawley, Sussex, to hold families facing forcible deportation.
Balfour withdraws sign or be sacked contracts
17-02-2012 13:44
In a major breakthrough, Unite has announced that Balfour Beatty has withdrawn the self-declared BESNA contracts at the centre of a 7-month dispute which has brought chaos to industrial relations across the contruction industry.Balfour Beatty Engineering Services was regarded by Unite as the ring-leader of a group of seven firms seeking to impose new contracts on thousands of sparks, plumbers and other engineers which they said would have substantially eroded skills of new workers and enforced cuts in pay and allowances of up to 35%.
David Cameron - The man who pushed the button.
17-02-2012 09:23
It is with disgust and despair that I shareWhat is Facebook doing to us?
16-02-2012 22:47
4 Months ago, after years of resisting, I finally joined Facebook for the first time. Half social experiment, half wanting to know what I was missing I concluded that in fact I was right and Facebook is bad news.IWW Cleaners' Living Wage Victory
16-02-2012 20:55
the Fighting Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners and Allied Trades Union today obtained a victory over contractor Dynamiq, who will now reinstate unfairly sacked IWW Cleaners in their jobs and pay them the living wage. The demonstration planned for Friday 17 February has thus been CANCELLED for cause of VICTORY!!
London, 16/02/2012 -IWW Cleaners and Allied Trades | Once again vindicating the IWW mottos - "An Injury to One is an Injury to All" and "Don't Mourn - Organise!" - the Fighting Industrial Workers of the World Cleaners and Allied Trades Union today gained yet another victory notch on their belt against unscrupulous bosses! Not ones to passively accept injustice, after their unfair sacking for organising a union, the Cleaners of NTT Communications stood up and confronted the management of cleaning services contractor Dynamiq for this unacceptable act of union-busting. Through the IWW Cleaners' Union's negotiations with Dynamiq management, the NTT Cleaners today obtained their reinstatement as a workforce onto a single worksite, and payment of the London Living Wage. The demonstration planned for Friday 17 February has thus been CANCELLED for cause of VICTORY!!
Dynamiq Cleaning and Program Management Ltd kicked out an entire workforce who had been at NTT for years - why? Because they joined a union and stood up for their rights in the face of bullying and intimidation.
Following today's negotiations with the cleaning contractor Dynamiq, who cover the contract for NTT, the Workers, with the IWW Cleaners Union's representation, secured an agreement which put all the workforce in one site and provides full-payment of the London Living Wage.
As result the IWW Cleaners Branch and London Delegates Committee has cancelled the demonstration called for Tomorrow at Devon house. We thank all trade unionists and fellow workers for their solidarity and support.
Democracy or Plutocracy?
16-02-2012 19:22
