12-02-2007 11:49
60 people assembled on the gates of Brize Norton airbase this morning Monday 12th February to protest against a charter flight that was to leave the base with 50/60 refused Kurdistan asylum seekers.
[The photos below are from the No Borders demo at Harmondsworth on Saturday]
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11-02-2007 15:59
200 + demonstrators from all over the UK supported the demo outside Kalyx/Colnbrook called by the 'No Borders Network'
Police bottle it
For over an hour no traffic passed in or out of the complex as the police gave up trying to clear a path through the assembled protestors.
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11-02-2007 14:29
More photos of the action outside Kalyx/ColnBrook detention centres called by No Borders London.
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11-02-2007 00:26
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Around 250 people assembled outside Harmondsworth today, a mix of refugees, asylum seekers and their supporters. Some had travelled by coach from as far away as Manchester, Leeds and Bradford. Some played Samba. Some wanted to give long speeches and pump their ego's for the Labour leadership race.
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10-02-2007 20:15
Today about 250 people went to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres to protest against the locking up, and deportation of migrants and asylum seekers.
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10-02-2007 13:00
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12:35pm. About 250 protesters gathered outside the gates of Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow. Two buses from London, one from Leeds and a number of minibuses from Brighton, Manchester and Reading carried people there despite bad weather conditions. There are also many refugees on the demo: Kurdish, Iranian, Congolese and others.
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How the Home Office's planned 'reforms' for children who claim asylum alone is already being implemented by the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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One week before the demonstration against detention Harmondsworth and Conbrook. Meet @ the Vortex Social Centre, Stoke Newington Church Street
from 6.30pm: ex-detinees speaking, film, discussion, workshops
from 9.30pm: bands and DJs, 52 Commercial Raod + others TBC,
veggie food, late bar
£ 5/3 donation
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Reports today show that more than 2 million Iraqi refugees, fleeing conflict in their homeland, are being supported in neighbouring countries including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, which are struggling to cope with the exodus. Some countries are preventing refugees from crossing their borders, contrary to international law, and prompting international aid agencies to warn of a humanitarian crisis.
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22-01-2007 12:12
International Federation of Iraqi Refugees and Coalition to Stop Deportation to Iraq is going to organize demonstrations to put pressure on the Home Office and policy makers to stop their plan to deport Kurdish asylum seekers.
London, Wednesday, In front of the Home Office in Westminster, 2 Marsham Street, London SW1P4 4DF, 24th Jan 2007, 4pm-6pm.
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Video of the protest outside Kalyx-Sodexho headquarters. photographs of Kalyx-run HMP Peterborough and a report on Kalyx and the Sodexho Alliance - listed as one of the companies profiteering from Guantanamo Bay.
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18-01-2007 06:11
Freedom of Information Act 2000. NCADC asked: In November 2006 how many families were in Immigration Detention in Dungavel, Tinsley House and Yarl's Wood? How many adults
and how many children?
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Freedom of Information Act 2000. NCADC asked for figures on self-harm in immigration detention for November 2006 under the following headings: 1) Number of individuals on formal self-harm at risk; 2) Number on incidents of self-harm requiring medical treatment; 3) Number of deaths if any.
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Demo against Kalyx/Sodexho who run Harmondsworth immigration detention centre
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Migrant and casual labour reside on the front lines of capitalism, and the IWW has a strong history of militant organising amongst these groups. They remain the two of the most exploited and vulnerable groups of workers today.
What can be done? How can casual and migrant workers help themselves? What are their connections and differences? How can other workers support them?
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A number of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers have been detained across the UK this month. No removal dates seemed to have been set as yet.
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Today Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishes reports of unannounced inspections on four immigration short-term holding facilities (STHF) at Colnbrook near Heathrow Airport, Reliance House and John Lennon Airport, Liverpool and Sandford House, Solihull.
Below are quotes and extracts NCADC has taken from the reports.
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Demo in central London this Wednesday, outside company that runs Harmondsworth IRC.
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11.30 am SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2007 // DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE HARMONDSWORTH AND COLNBROOK DETENTION CENTRES NEAR HEATHROW
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04-01-2007 23:20
Call for demo at Communications House (corner of Old Street/Mallow Street, central London) this Saturday, from 11am til 1pm.
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