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Tribunal allows Sri Lankan asylum appeal
The Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) has allowed LP's "country guidance" case appeal. Refused Sri Lankan asylum seekers may be able to make fresh claims as a result.International Action Day in solidarity with Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi
Mansour Osanloo, chair of the bus driver's union in Tehran, was abducted by the Iranian authorities and is now incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran. Mansour was snatched from a bus on July 10th and the order to arrest him is thought to have come from Revolutionary Court Judge Saeed Mortazavi. The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) has vowed to secure Mansour's release. Mahmoud Salehi, a leader of an independent bakers union in Iran's Kurdistan province, was arrested in the city of Saquez along with 6 other union activists and is now in prison. His life is in grave danger because the authorities will not allow him to receive medical assistance. Mahood suffers from chronic kidney disease, and his health is failing rapidly. He has only one functioning kidney and requires dialysis to prevent the other from shutting down. Without treatment, he will die.
There is a demonstration in front of the Iranian embassy in London on Thursday 9th August at 12:00-3:00 pm.
Another Inspiring Food Not Bombs
Last chance for Brum Food Not Bombs to participate in the promotion and mobilisation for this years Camp for Climate Action. Another great action involving reclaimed and grown food, best curry yet, and broad-based campaigning work.
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There is NO Asylum 'Amnesty'
Despite what NCADC regards as misleading articles in the media (none of it sourced; none of it correct) and rumors on the streets, there is definitely no new 'amnesty'.Child restraint in prisons
Coroner tells Straw to act now on restraint in child prisons
"Between 20 and 50" escape from Campsfield Immigration Prison
After another week of strikes and protests, the GEO-managed centre explodes - for the2nd time in 6 months.
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Foie Gras in Worcestershire? No Ta!!!
Dozens of hotels and restaurants that were selling foie gras (french for "fatty liver" = the diseased liver of duck and goose) have removed this disgusting human luxury from their menus since Aug 06 due to effective peaceful protest.Weekend action in Tower Hamlets to get the people their money back
It has been 5 weeks since the 'first Solution' controllers, based [until end of June 2007] at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel Road london E1, declared that they were going into liquidation. That was followed by widespread demonstrations o anger, outrage, anguish and frustration by people who have lost money.Weekend action in Tower Hamlets to get the people their money back
It has been 5 weeks since the 'first Solution' controllers, based [until end of June 2007] at the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel Road london E1, declared that they were going into liquidation. That was followed by widespread demonstrations o anger, outrage, anguish and frustration by people who have lost money.Iran Sentences Two Journalists To Death
The Iranian judiciary confirmed that two journalist from the country's Kurdish minority have been sentenced to death, a rare verdict against media people here, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Tuesday.Birmingham parents challenge educational underachievement
More than 70 concerned parents, teachers, governors, councillors and local people came together in Digbeth, Birmingham, last week to discuss how to get local schools to do better for their underachieving pupils.West Midlands Climate Camp Neighbourhood Wish List
Wish list of stuff to beg/borrow/skip/etc for the West Midlands neighbourhood at the Camp for Climate Action 2007Breaking News - Jean Charles de Menezes
The official report from the IPCC has confirmed that the senior counter-terrorism police officer, Andy Hayman, misled the Met Commissioner over the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes in 2005.
'Keep Your Blood Service Local' Birmingham Banner Drop
Early this morning a banner was hoisted between two trees opposite the entrance to Birmingham's National Blood Service on Vincent Drive, Edgbaston. The banner proclaims 'Keep Your Blood Centre Local' and was positioned in full view of staff working at the Blood Service. This is in response to the National Blood Service (NBS) Directors plans to centralise our blood service by closing blood processing and testing labs at 10 local centres in favour of just 3 supercentres in Bristol, Manchester and London. 100s of technical staff, about half the lab workforce, face redundancy. If these plans are implemented then they will effectively rip the heart out of our National Blood Service. The proposed cuts will seriously undermine the services provided and emergencies, such as rushing washed blood platelets to patients, will be compromised.
Jean Charles de Menezes: still no justice two years on
The Jean Charles de Menezes campaign projected this image on the houses of Parliament on Friday of last week. They were commemorating two years since the 27-year-old Brazilian was shot dead by police. For more go to > www.justice4jean.com
March in Brum to Save the Planet!!
If you`re veggie or vegan, please join us for this march and rally in Birmingham. Help us to inform masses of people of the devastating impact that meat/dairy production has on the planet.
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New Vegan Campaigning Group Forms
Midlands Vegan Campaigns will promote the many benefits of veganism, which can be split into 4 main categories - animal rights, environmental, health and world hunger.Fresh wave of postal strikes begins
Today saw the first of a fresh round of industrial actions by postal workers as the CWU dispute with Royal Mail escalated on both industrial and political fronts. The now-familiar picket lines at Birmingham's main mail centre in Newtown were again mounted as workers walked out at 7pm. The CWU said today's 24-hour strike at mail centres and cash handling sites was "even more solid" than previous ones.
Corporate manslaughter law to cover deaths in custody
Prisoners who are injured or killed while in custody will be covered by new corporate manslaughter laws, it emerged today. The government has caved in to criticism and agreed to extend the new legislation to prisoners and youth offenders.Birmingham Indymedia Cinema: Radical Cinema in the USA 60’s - 70’s
A night of pioneering activist documentary filmmaking. Tuesday 31st of July @ the Midlands Arts Centre Birmingham
http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=visiting Hand-held video cameras and now mobile telephones have revolutionised the instantaneous documentation of news events and happenings on the street. To a thus far unprecedented degree they have given power back to the people to record and report events in crisis situations. But this is not new - only the technology has changed.
During the 60s, a period in which America was a nation at war – not least with itself - underground spokesman Jonas Mekas called for a new movement of activist documentary filmmaking with access to “almost weightless, almost invisible” 8mm and 16mm cameras. A new style of “street journalism” evolved reporting on America’s increasingly polarised and radicalised society.