Manchester Migration Newswire Archive

Demonstrate outside Home Office, Liverpool, 4 April, 2pm.

NWASDG, 03-04-2007 13:03

Protest outside racist Home Office. Stop 'failing asylum seekers! Read more | 2 comments >>

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Stop Deportations of Darfurians! Stop All Deportations!

NCADC, 02-04-2007 13:49

Called by the Darfurian Community in Manchester
Demonstration: Thursday 5th April at 12:00 noon
Dallas Court Enforcement Unit, South Longworthy Road, Salford Quays, Salford M50 2GF

Congolese, Zimbabwean, Iraqi, Afghan, Somali asylum seekers of other nationalities stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sudanese, the latest targets of the Home Office's most shameful, vile attacks. Read more | 1 comment >>

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Anti-racist protest/stall - Saturday 31 March 2007, 12-3pm

NWASDG-Ejderha-Mahir, 26-03-2007 11:50

As the racist Labour governments' attacks on immigrants and especially asylum seekers intensifies (ESOL, snatch squads, charter flights, etc), anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding anti-deportation stalls/protest on Saturday 31 March from 12pm-3pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. You are invited to attend and take an active part. Actions speak louder than words. Say no to the racist Labour government's policies of starvation, isolation, detention and deportation of asylum seekers and refugees, where it matters: on the streets. Read more >>

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Another Kurdish TCAR family snatched

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees, 21-03-2007 11:22

Another Kurdish family who have been living in Newcastle for the last 6 years, and who have been active members of TCAR (Tyneside Community Action for Refugees) are due to be deported to Turkey this Friday. There will be an EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION against the family's deportation on Wednesday 21st March, 4.30-5.30pm outside Government Offices North East, Gallowgate (opposite St James Park metro). Read more | 1 comment >>

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Ola and family Released From Detention

Mahir-Ejderha, 16-03-2007 13:23

Olawumi Alao and her three children were released on 13 March 2007 from Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre (IRC) in Bedfordshire. Olawumi and her children had been held at the prison for almost 6 weeks. For what reason??? They are now back at their home in Liverpool from where they were kidnapped by snatch squads early on 1 February 2007. But for an injunction filed by her solicitor, the racist authorities would have deported them by 5 February. Ola and her youngest child, suffer from Hepatitis B, but were not been given any treatment at Yarl's Wood detention centre. On 12 February, the 1-year-old, Fayad was violently sick - but still he got no medical treatment. Ola was refused bail, because, said the Home Office, she was likely to 'abscond'; but Ola has lived in Liverpool for the past 18 months, without 'absconding', reporting to Reliance House in Liverpool regularly and keeping her children in the local schools. She did not 'abscond' even after the immigration service thugs twice raided her house whilst the family was out. Thanks to all those who wrote and emailed the councillors and MP about Ola and her children. The campaign goes on, Ola is still in danger of deportation, so watch this space...




Defend Ola and Family!

Defend all asylum seekers!

No to deportations!

No to British state racism!




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CONGOLESE REFUGEES BLOCKADE DALLAS COURT KIDNAPPING CENTRE!

Mahir-Ejderha, 15-03-2007 10:48

The Congo Support Network held a demonstration on 13 March 2007 at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford Quays, in opposition to the recent and continuing deportations of Congolese asylum seekers to war-torn DRCongo. It was attended by over 100 Congolese and Libyan refugees, and supported by anti-racist activists from Manchester FRFI. It was meant to run from 12-2pm.

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Emergency demonstration at Waterside in solidarity with Campsfield detainees

Leeds No Borders, 14-03-2007 15:16

Earlier today around 30 members of Leeds No Borders demonstrated outside Waterside Court in Leeds to show solidarity with the detainess at Campsfield Detention Centre near Oxford, where disturbances broke out early this morning and were reacted to extremely heavy handedly by police and Home Office alike.

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Tyneside Deportation Stopped but the Struggle Continues! Demonstrate TOMORROW

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR), 13-03-2007 22:53

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION this WEDNESDAY 14TH 08.30-10.00AM outside Government Offices North East near St Jame's Park, in opposition to deportation of 2 TCAR families Read more >>

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NWASDG Organising Meeting, Saturday 24th March 2007, 2.00pm.

Mahir-Ejderha, 12-03-2007 11:06

There will be an organising meeting at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 2.00pm to 4pm. This meeting is for all who want to help defend asylum seekers and refugees against Britain's racist laws. Everyone is welcome.




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Save ESOL! March and Rally 3rd March 2007

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR), 07-03-2007 02:38

On Saturday 3rd March 2007 Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) joined with Newcastle College Student Union and ESOL staff and students to organise a march and rally against the Labour government's proposed cuts to funding for ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages). Under the proposed changes, from September 2007 asylum seekers will be totally excluded from English classes, and other will be expected to pay, effectively excluding many low paid migrant workers. Read more | 4 comments >>

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Anti-deportation stall on Wednesday 14th March 2007, 12pm

Mahir-Ejderha, 06-03-2007 13:45

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation stall on Wednesday 14th March from 12pm in Longsight. Call for more details. You are invited to attend and take an active part.




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Close Down Dallas Court Reporting Centre! Monday 26 March 2007, 12pm

Mahir-Ejderha, 01-03-2007 14:55

No to state racism! Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportations! No to the racist Labour government!





The next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays (nearest Tram stop Broadway), will be held on Monday 26 March 2007 at 12pm - 2pm. People are kidnapped daily at Dallas Court and taken to detention centres, and racially abused and insulted by racist staff. All are urged to attend and support these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government. NWASDG has been organising these protests since May 2006. Get involved!

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NWASDG Organising Meeting, Saturday 10 March 2007, 2.00pm.

Mahir-Ejderha, 01-03-2007 14:51

There will be an organising meeting at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 2.00pm. This meeting is for all who want to help defend asylum seekers and refugees against Britain's racist laws. Everyone is welcome.




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Anti-deportation stall on Saturday 3 March 2007, 12-2pm

Mahir, 01-03-2007 14:48

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation stall on Saturday 3 March 2007, 12-2pm, on Market Street, Manchester. You are invited to attend and take an active part.




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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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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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