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Dignity Not Detention - the 3 Day March

Dignity Not Detention | 10.10.2007 16:55 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

Asylum seekers, refugees, trade unionists and supporters from all over South Yorkshire will march from the Home Office in Sheffield to Lindholme Detention centre near Doncaster between 26-28th October

The marchers will demand "The right to work for asylum seekers" and to say that "Seeking asylum is not a crime." We will end at Lindholme detention where asylum seekers are often held without having committed any ocriminal offence. There will be a demonstration there at 3pm on Sunday 28th.

You are welcome to join us and we hope you publicise our march.
See the leaflet for more details. Contact us at  dignitynotdetention@yahoo.co.uk

Dignity Not Detention
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11.10.2007 22:00

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Dignity Not Detention - the 3 Day March
Dignity Not Detention - the 3 Day March

Attached is a PDF and an image of the front of the leaflet, following is the text from the back of leaflet and the times / locations for the march:

Friday 26th 12 noon: Demonstrate @ Milton House, Home Office (Charter Row, Sheffield S1 3FZ).
Rally: 1.45pm @ Ellesmere Green, Burngreave, Sheffield

Saturday 27th Leaving Eastwood Methodist Church, Rotherham @ 9am
Rally & social in Doncaster town centre from 6.30pm

Sunday 28th Leaving Priory Church, Doncaster DN1 1TR @ 9am
3pm: Demonstrate @ Lindholme Detention Centre (A614, Donc. DN7 6EE)

Right to Work

Did you know that people seeking asylum in this country are not allowed to work? Rather than face destitution or criminalisation they are forced to work in unregulated jobs, often with the lowest pay and most dangerous conditions in industries which already use casual labour to drive down wages and conditions for us all. Therefore we demand their right to work.

Politicians and vicious media campaigns spread myths about ‘scroungers’ and encourage people to believe that refugees rather than the politicians themselves are responsible for housing shortages and unemployment. Yet asylum seekers get no special priority for council housing and are given benefits below the minimum allowed for British nationals.

Asylum is Not a Crime

Over 40,000 asylum seekers pass through the UK’s 10 prison-like detention centres each year. Unlike prisoners, they have no release date, few legal rights and have often committed no criminal offence.
Government restrictions on legal aid make it almost impossible for asylum seekers to appeal against their detention without trial. While civil war and human rights abuses are condemned by the UK Government in Zimbabwe, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Sudan and elsewhere, exiles from these countries find themselves detained without legal support, facing deportation and death.

Why Lindholme?

Staff at this former prison treat detainees as offenders, rather than recognising that they have not been convicted of any crime. Run by the Prison Service, Lindholme “Immigration Removal Centre” near Doncaster holds up to 112 male detainees. An unannounced inspection by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in 2004 recommended that the Government “should review whether Lindholme is an appropriate facility for an immigration removal centre” due to it being “deficient in all four of our keys tests: safety, respect, purposeful activity and preparation for release”. Inspectors noticed Prison Officers shouting in English to non-English speaking detainees and a lack of interpreters.

People in Lindholme have left their homes and families to escape war, torture and dictatorship in their own countries. Yet the UK Government invades Iraq and Afghanistan; it helps western companies plunder £millions of resources daily from places like Congo in Africa while proxy wars rage; it works with corrupt regimes around the world and then it tries to imprison and deport people who seek safety in this country.

Does the Government speak for you when it acts like this?

i18n


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WHY ???

10.10.2007 19:27

WHY ???

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10.10.2007 21:53

Because!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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11.10.2007 12:38

around our nation's capital there's a motoway 6 lanes wide white concrete ringed around the city for those who want inside get on get off ignore everything to the sides in your midst i drive while homeboys in the back of the van make drugs wanna hide something like a crack lab just put it in plain sight only stop to refuel and unload more poison to tear more lives apart gang wars like never before better lock your doors, buy some guns and prey for martial law on the m25. motoway around and around i go in the black van with no windows and a chimney puffing smoke bloody headlines in the news each day drug "crisis" everywhere so much comes in so easy it's as though someone wants it there it would be a little obvious to fence off all the slums hand out machine guns to the poor in the projects and watch 'em kill each other off a more subtle genocide is when the only hope for the young is to join the army and slowly die wall street or crack dealer avenue the last roads left to the american dream wall street or crack dealer avenue wall street or crack dealer avenue only on road leads to this neighborhood little kids wanna sell drugs when they grow up the folks might get just a little upset if they knew where that dope comes from froom columbia to the contras to our air force bases, where we trade it for guns the moral equivilent of a serial killer and his mi5 friends call the shots from the white house but now that we own the media too those stories just aren't run on the m25, 'round and 'round i go in a black van with no windows, and a chimney puffing smoke some gang that ran smack in viet nam ain't got no reason to fear just get a labour govermant so dumb the crook at the top never gets impeached that sure was easy wasn't it? that sure was easy wasn't it? more crack-more panic-moe cops-more jails you see emergency-total war you see emergency-total war you see a black face-you see a crackhead you see a black face-you see a crackhead you see a black face-you see ian hunter with a knife you see ian hunter with a knife you see one ian hunter you've seen them all they're everywhere, i know you asked for it, you've got it drug suspects have no rights at all property seized and sold before trial labor camps-on - uk-soil?!? (have you seen medwhell?) neo-nazi bootboys that the cops never seem to arrest prowl neighborhoods with baseball bats why now? why do they get so much press...? medowhell-the mini series nick griffin-"patriotic" hero the leader for tomorrow is yours today finally gotcha psyched for a police state on the m25 motoway around and around i go in a black van with no windows and a chimney puffing smoke my van's a mobile oven now that burns the bodies you never see just like in burma or guantamo bay people just seem to disappear just like rome we fell asleep when we got spoiled ignore human rights in the rest of the world ya might just lose your own as the noose of narco-militarism tightens 'round your necks we worry about burning flags and pee in jars at work to keep our jobs but if someone came for you one night and dragged you away do you really think your neighbors would even care?

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