UK Indymedia - UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Up The Creek Without A Paddle!

21-08-2006 22:43

Two BNP activists raising money for the fascist party with a sponsored canoe trip were very quickly out of their depth. Read this and weep (with laughter!)

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FOREIGN OFFICE BLOCKADE REPORT: Monday 21st August

21-08-2006 21:18

Anti-war activists blocked entrance to the Foreign Office for two hours Monday morning in a protest against British foreign policy.

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Cave Dwelling Muslim Behind Liquid Bomb Non-Plot

21-08-2006 17:11

Never mind that “liquid bombs” are fantastical nonsense, or there is no evidence those arrested—more accurately, disappeared—in Britain plotted to blow up planes (no bombs, no airline tickets, no passports), the corporate media, having established the now widely believed Brothers Grimm story of Muslim perfidy by way of household chemicals, has moved to the next level.

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Keep the Mutamba Family Together

21-08-2006 13:18

After capturing and detaining him at Brand Street, the Home Office are attempting to separate Glasgow resident Evariste from his wife and children. Please take action to prevent this. Come along to a Unity demonstration outside the Home Office, Brand St, Glasgow, on Wednesday 23rd August at 12.00pm to support Evariste and his family.

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DEMO DALLAS COURT - THURSDAY 24TH AUGUST 2006

20-08-2006 22:12

The Defend Eucharia and Timeyi Campaign, North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! are calling a demonstration/protest for Thursday, 24 August 2006, at 10.00 am outside Dallas Court Reception Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays.

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Close Down Dallas Court - Report 18 August

20-08-2006 10:48

On 18 August 2006, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, asylum seekers as well as other anti-racist campaigners gathered outside Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford Quays, to protest against the racist treatment of asylum seekers and the continued kidnapping of people at Dallas Court. Including the recent kidnap and transfer to Campsfield, on Wednesday, 16 August of Jean Lobouka from Congo (Brazzaville), when he went to sign.

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BBC Today Gets Undocumented Migrant Arrested

19-08-2006 16:41

There was an outrageous piece on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme the other day exposing the 'scandal' of the Home Office not arresting and deporting undocumented workers. As part of the report, BBC reporter John Minel entraped a worker into talking about his immigration status, and then betrayed him to the Home Office, leading to the man's arrest and imprisonment.

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28%: 'Removals Failure' Rate

19-08-2006 16:18

The Daily Mail today published a report about "hundreds of asylum seekers escaping deportation." But whlie the newspaper, famous for its racist attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers, attributed this 'failure' to the "incompetence by the Government's shambolic immigration department", activists and anti-deportation campaigns quite surely have a lot to do with it.

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Hollywood Supports Israeli Mass Murder

19-08-2006 15:59

85 high-profile Hollywood stars, directors, studio bosses and media moguls, has taken out a powerfully-worded full page advertisement in today’s Los Angeles Times newspaper. “We the undersigned are pained and devastated by the civilian casualties in Israel and Lebanon caused by terrorist actions initiated by terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas,” the ad reads.

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Recent account of life in Baghdad from Iraqi refugee.

19-08-2006 15:04

This piece contains an eye-witness acount of life in Baghdad written by an Iraqi refugee who has recently returned to her home town.

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Saltdean Nazi On MySpace

18-08-2006 11:35

Saltdean Nazi Sid Williamson on MySpace

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Khatami and Torture

18-08-2006 00:03

This image was published recently on a Kurdish site. I did a quick Google search and found it again on an Iranian blog. The victim is allegedly Kurdish, and the official visitor is allegedly Mohammad Khatami, the former Iranian president.

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The New Face Of The BNP

17-08-2006 20:15

After the collapse of the 'British People's Party', Saltdean Nazi Sid Williamson has thrown in his lot with the BNP. While he's previously denounced the BNP as 'jew-lovers', 'race-traitors', etc the only real surprise is that his membership application appears to have passed by Nick Griffin's beady eye - Or has it?

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stop Zimbabwe deportations

17-08-2006 15:20

A meeting for Zimbabweans and their friends.

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Rules of the Western Media in dealing with the Middle East

17-08-2006 13:16

This is a piece by Michel Collon on the media reporting of the Middle East.

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Voices of Pakistani Women Detained in UK

16-08-2006 17:19

"We always are the slippers of our husbands"

A statement from Maliha, Sajjida, Farzana, Sadia, Adibunnisa, Masooma and Heenia, seven Pakistani women currently Imprisoned in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre

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Urgent Appeal on Behalf of the Doldur Family

16-08-2006 17:09

Please help ensure that this family don't get removed before their Judicial Review is heard.

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G-Had In the UK

15-08-2006 13:38

I’m strapped up ’cross my chest, bomb belt attached
Deeply satisfied with the plan I hatched
Electrodes connected to a gas cooker lighter

Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental talks Angela Saini about the All is War (The Benefits of G-Had) album....

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Close Down Dallas Court reporting Centre! Protest - 18 August

14-08-2006 09:45

the next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford Quays, will be held on Friday 18 August at 2-4pm. All are urged to attend and support these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government.
The one after that will be on 15 September, same time and place. Next organising meeting of the NWASDG is on Tuesday 29 August at 7.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester.

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The Don't Support Israel Shopping Guide

13-08-2006 06:54

A useful list of products to avoid if you want to take part in the Israeli Goods Boycott.
More information at the War on Want and at the Boycott Israeli Goods web sites.