25.9.00 - Waterloo Station, London: NoBorder demands free movement for people
Ionnek | 25.09.2000 23:14
As world bank and IMF are pushing free movement for money in Prague,
NoBorders activists claimed free movement for people in Waterloo Station,
London.
NoBorders activists claimed free movement for people in Waterloo Station,
London.
They put up banners and distributed the "Financial Crimes" and NoBorder leaflets. Waterloo is an internal border, as the Eurostar arrives here. Undesired people arriving there can be locked up in a holding pen next
to the taxi stalls. From there they can be put back on a train to France or Belgium, sent to a detention center or put in substandard accommodation with mainly vouchers to survive on. Activists stuck up a poster at the holding
pen. Immediately, people around reacted: One passer-by tore it down, another, seeing this and obviously liking the poster, asked the activists to put up another one!
Under the slogan "money moves - why can't people", NoBorders connected the strictly monetarist policies of world bank and IMF to one of their consequences in London: the border regime. Many of the refugees being
detained in the Waterloo holding pens are escaping extremely harsh economic conditions which are a direct result of political decisions taken by the world bank and IMF.
to the taxi stalls. From there they can be put back on a train to France or Belgium, sent to a detention center or put in substandard accommodation with mainly vouchers to survive on. Activists stuck up a poster at the holding
pen. Immediately, people around reacted: One passer-by tore it down, another, seeing this and obviously liking the poster, asked the activists to put up another one!
Under the slogan "money moves - why can't people", NoBorders connected the strictly monetarist policies of world bank and IMF to one of their consequences in London: the border regime. Many of the refugees being
detained in the Waterloo holding pens are escaping extremely harsh economic conditions which are a direct result of political decisions taken by the world bank and IMF.
Ionnek
