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Report: Noise Demo at North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees | 05.04.2006 15:23 | Anti-racism | Migration | Social Struggles

On 5th April 2006 Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) carried out a 'big noise' demo outside North Shields Immigration Service Reporting Centre.







This was done to break the silence under which refugees are forced to regularly sign their continued compliance with an unjust system, in constant fear of detention and deportation. Around 40 people participated in the protest, drawing together refugees, local individuals, activists from Revolution Socialist Youth Movement and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism, and trade unionists.

TCAR will continue to build such actions, and welcomes anybody who agrees with their aims to get involved. The regular pickets of North Shields Reporting Centre will continue. There are regular open meeting in Newcastle City Centre, contact TCAR at  tynsidecarn@yahoo.co.uk for details.

TCAR stands For:

- the right to work, no to forced labour
- a just and fair legal process for asylum seekers
- the right to asylum and for Britain to uphold it’s international commitments under the 1951 UN Convention
- people seeking asylum to be treated with dignity and respect
- decent housing, income and welfare rights for all
- the right of asylum seekers and their communities to self defence, for example, for the right to physically resist being forced onto a plane, or to resist ‘snatch squads’

Against:

- forced deportation
- the persecution of people on the grounds of race, nationality, religion or political view-point
- the scapegoating and criminalisation of asylum seekers
- forced poverty, homelessness and destitution
- attacks on the legal representation of asylum rights
- forced dispersal

Tyneside Community Action for Refugees
- e-mail: tynesidecarn@yahoo.co.uk

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awesome stuff

06.04.2006 10:13

The massive level of involvement of ethnic minorities(presumably largely asylum seekers) should put so many British residents to shame. It should inspire us to get behind asylum seekers who as a group are far braver than the 'British' but need our solidarity and support more than ever as one placard so poignantly put it 'my life is not my own anymore'. A people with next to no rights need all the help they can get to demand they be treated like everyone else. If you're in the north east please get in touch-this is the most exciting movement there's been in the area since the anti war movement three years ago.

concerned geordie

to many do gooders listen too the general public

23.11.2007 22:37

a labour government has destroyed this country society has bein severely damaged by alot of things especially immigration house prices have risen since labour came too power 50 fold crime drugs all manor of things that should not be happening have came to our door step its blairs government new labour with there open door policy s that have let the public down immigration is far to high and if people aren't careful what happened in Germany will happen here i note iam against immigration
the human rights bill should be scrapped and tighter controls should be put in force and to counter any argument of our ancestors all of Europe were imperialists and the generation now are not too blame for the past mistake's get real you over educated public school idiots smell the real issues that have bein addressed by people with common sense

north shields born and bred
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