Manchester Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Former BNP Candidate On Explosives Charge

Lancaster UAF, 12-02-2007 10:02

BNP candidate in bomb plot trial starting today Read more | 13 comments >>

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Anti-deportation protest

NWASDG, 29-01-2007 22:47

Anti-deportation/anti-racist protest and stall on Saturday 10 February 2007, 11.30am-1.30pm. Read more >>

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Lib Dems vote for BNP

fly posters, 24-01-2007 13:18

Saw this in local press Read more | 1 comment >>

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Tyneside March Against Dawn Raids-Resistance to Deportations Continues to Build

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees, 24-01-2007 01:37

On 20 January Tyneside Community Action for Refugees held a militant demonstration through the centre of Newcastle to protest against deportations of asylum seekers and to launch the pledge of resistance to snatch squads. Over 100 protesters from diverse communities marched under the banner ‘Here to Stay. Here to Fight. Defend Asylum Rights!’ and demanded an end to dawn raids, the name given to the brutal policy of snatching failed asylum seekers from their homes in the early hours of the morning. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Manchester Demo Against Deportations and Repression in Ethiopia

Jason, 07-12-2006 10:15

About 40 people, mainly from Manchester's Ethiopian community, joined a protest against all deportations in particualr highlighting repression in Ethiopia Read more >>

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Kurdish family snatched and face deportation 06/11/06: TCAR Mobilises on Tyneside

TCAR (Tyneside Community Action for Refugees), 05-12-2006 12:38

On Tuesday 5 December around 25 refugees and local people living in Newcastle gathered outside Government Offices North East to say: ‘Immigration is no crime, End detention! Deportation is the crime, Lock up Labour!’. This comes in the wake of a week of protests inside Britain’s immigration detention centres, and follows the detention of a Kurdish asylum seeking family at their home in Fenham in the early hours of Monday morning, with the intention to deport them to Turkey on Turkish Airlines flight TK1980, leaving Heathrow at 11.45am this Wednesday. (this is the same flight booked for Hassan from Unity in Glasgow -  http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3440/index.php) Tyneside Community Action for Refugees took to the streets Tuesday morning to protest against all immigration detention, and to demand the immediate release of Hidayet Ozdemir, his pregnant wife Hatin and their two children, 12 year old Denniz and 7 year old Guseren. Read more | 2 additions | 2 comments >>

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Urgent: Yarl's Wood Quarantined

NWASDG, 30-11-2006 15:10

Asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood have claimed today that Yarl's Wood IRC is quarantined and that visitors are not being allowed in due to the dangerous health conditions there. Read more | 2 additions >>

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Anti Deportation Protest, Manchester

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 28-11-2006 22:46

Approximately 30,000 immigrants and asylum seekers are locked up in detention centres and prisons in Britain every year, including over 2000 children and babies. About 400 are deported from Britain every week, including children and babies. Some say Britain is not a racist state, but facts are stubborn little things and have to be reckoned with.
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BNP Blackpool Conference located

seasider, 25-11-2006 17:09

Blackpool Hotel disgraces the resort by hosting the racist conference of the BNP. Read more | 1 addition | 10 comments >>

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Anti-racist/anti-deportation protest - Saturday 25 November 2006

NWASDG, 20-11-2006 18:35

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest on Saturday 25 November from 12-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. Read more >>

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Blackpool demonstration against the BNP conference

Lancaster UAF, 15-11-2006 03:58

North West Region UAF together with Blackpool Fylde and Wyre TUC have called a demonstration against the British National Party holding their badly-named Annual Conference in Blackpool. Read more | 1 addition | 13 comments >>

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Defend Halima and 6-month-old Bailey Jr. - Monday 13 Nov, 9am

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 07-11-2006 00:46

There is to be a demonstration and protest outside the offices of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal (AIT) on Monday 13 November, from 9.00 am, in Piccadilly Exchange, Manchester, near Mosley Street Tram stop, Piccadilly Plaza. The demo is in support of Halima Aboubacar and 6-month-old Bailey Jr. who face a deportation appeal hearing. If they lose, a date for deportation will be set and face deportation to the persecution Halima fled. Bailey Jr. also faces deportation to a country he’s never been to before. Come and support Halima and Bailey Jr. No to deportations! Stop deporting children and babies! Defend all asylum seekers! Read more >>

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Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

Stuart Crosthwaite, 02-11-2006 16:17

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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Griffin's Bodyguard In Faceparty Teen Orgy Scandal

Linda Lovelace, 31-10-2006 00:17

What anybody does in their spare time is their own business, but for an openly homophobic party who encourages violence towards gay and lesbian people, acccusing such people of being "promiscious", does smack of double-standards. Read more | 41 comments >>

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No justice, no peace - Photos from deaths in custody demo, london (Oct28)

r2r, 28-10-2006 18:44

Not really a subject I felt like covering today after waking up to the news that an Indymedia videographer had been shot dead by plain clothes coppers in Mexico last night....

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Congo Film Evening!! Friday 3 November

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 27-10-2006 15:54

On Friday 3 November at 7.30pm at the Basement Cafe, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG) present the film 'Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death', the story of how Belgian colonialism killed 10 million Congolese and plundered the country.
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The Semantics of the Israeli Occupation

Leeds PSC on tour, 23-10-2006 20:56

Colony vs Settlement
Terminal vs Checkpoint Read more | 1 comment >>

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Ethnic Cleansing of Jerusalem

Leeds PSC on tour, 23-10-2006 20:51

Israeli controled Jerusalem municipality is demolishing Palestinian homes to mke way for a park. Read more | 1 comment >>

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DEMOSTRATE! Dallas Court, Monday, 23 October 2006

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 19-10-2006 01:20

The North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! are calling a demonstration/protest for Monday, 23 October 2006, at 10.30 am outside Dallas Court Reporting Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays [Broadway Tram stop]. This is in support of Mathew Adekunle and his family [his wife, a five-year-old, two-year-old and a 3-month-old baby] who have been asked to report with 'all their documents'. It is possible that they will be kidnapped and maybe later forcibly deported against their will if this happens. Read more >>

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Anti-racist/anti-deportation protest - 21 October

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 16-10-2006 23:50

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest on Saturday 21 October from 12-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre Read more >>

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