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REFUGEES, THEY'RE WELCOME HERE! - BRIGHTON EVENT MONDAY 19TH JUNE

Community Base | 12.06.2006 15:16 | Refugee Week 2006 | Anti-racism | Migration | South Coast

6.30pm-9pm Monday 19th June 2006 @ Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton

FREE! ALL WELCOME!

You can download the poster for this event from the weblink

6.30PM FOOD AND FILMS

BARBED WIRE BEAT
(Anne-Marie Sweeney/Close Campsfield Campaign)
A poignant and dynamic journey through 10 years of campaigning against immigration detention at Campsfield Detention Centre in Oxfordshire. "A brilliant portrait of a powerful campaign" - Louise Christian, human rights lawyer

ASYLUM REALITIES
(Charlotte Cornic/Scottish Refugee Council, 2006)
English premiere of this film about how some refugees are making new lives in Scottish communities

LOST IN TRANSIT
(BBC Storyville, 2004)
Will two would-be immigrants from West Africa overcome the trials of the Sahara and people-smugglers to reach Europe?

VISIT DUNGAVEL - MONSTER OF THE GLEN
(Camcorder Guerillas, 2005)
Imagine escaping persecution in your own country only to be locked up in a Scottish Castle...

Excerpts will be shown from each film
Food by Hindu Elders' Group

7.30PM SPEAKERS AND DISCUSSION

EDWARD NASHO (Zimbabwean journalist and asylum seeker) on the reality of refugee detainees in Britain

CHRISTINE BACON (Active for Refugees Project) on lessons of the refugee movement in Australia

CRYSTAL (Black Women's Rape Action Project) on refugee rape survivors

UNNAMED SPEAKER (All African Women's Group) on resisting destitution, detention and deportation

A COMMUNITY BASE EVENT FOR REFUGEE WEEK

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The other side

12.06.2006 17:17


I was studying at a London Uni a couple of years ago and so had to look for digs- you the usual furnished room in a house share- the Uni housing office furnished me with a list of private flats- a number of which I visited- guess what- most were flats on council estates where the tenants were re-letting their social housing- at a considerable profit- most were recent immigrants. Council flats are only allocated were there are children so i can only assume that these children were sleeping on a relatives sofa somewhere- hence crap progress at school.
Also the rent collector was invariably a male- most likely the father- using his girlfriend and his off- spring to make a nice little earner.
One guy even told me how he was going for "right to buy"- so is revealed the truth about the immigrant economy in London- social housing and the chance to be enpropertied (by the welfare state)is the core of it-controled by domineering men to the detriment of children.

Any chance of an informed debate around immigration on Indymedia- instead of perpetual calls for demos.

ap

what other side?

13.06.2006 16:19

Do you know AP, in the past three years I have had to change my garage three times! In each of the previous three garages I've taken my car for a service or repair, they have either not done the appropriate service or the repair has been bodged and I've have to go back a repeated number of times to get it sorted. And at each garage the mechanic doing the job has had blue eyes.
When are we going to have a serious debate about blue-eyed people on Indymedia?

AP, you are either a flame bait or really need to think about how easily you jump to prejudiced, and in this case racist, conclusions.

Ross Porter

The right to question

14.06.2006 12:37

Most people find the re-letting of social housing extremely annoying- this must be talked about otherwise- self-censorship. The evidence is there- go into the accommodation office of any cental London Uni and get a list.
You throw the accusation of racism in the same way others shout anti-semite when Isreal is criticised.

ap