At 2pm on Saturday 29th March, on the day of the Zimbabwean elections, folks gathered to highlight the dangers that people who have fled Zimbabwe will face, if they are forcibly returned there.

No Borders Nottingham group had called for the demonstration at our shinny new [temporary] Speakers Corner, on the edge of the Market Square, Nottingham. Some who had gathered there were asylum seekers who have come here for help, and their supporters demonstrating their wish that these people should not be turned away.

For more information on the background of this campaign, and other groups affected by asylum laws, please check out:

No Borders Nottingham
 http://www.nobordersnottingham.org.uk

As far as I know, this is the first use of the 'temporary' Speakers Corner. So, history in the making :-)

earlier and related posts:

Protest against Deportations to Northern Iraq (Kurdistan)
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321695.html

Nottingham Police Station :: Forced Deportations Continue
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2005/08/321950.html

Occupation at Labour Party Offices for East Midlands
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/308040.html

Anti-Deportation Protest at Nottingham Magistrates Court
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/03/334914.html

No Borders Nottingham 'National Day of Action on Asylum Rights'
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/05/371109.html

Nottingham demo against deportations to Congo
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/366550.html

Situation in the Congo is worsening as deportations continue
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/03/366596.html

Nottingham Congolese Community demonstrated against continued deportations
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374765.html

Nottingham Market Sq Demo against deportation flights to Congo
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/08/379807.html

Zimbabwe Association for information and asylum assistance

Zimbabwe Association Ltd
Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London EC2A 4JX
020 7549 0355
 zimbabweassociation@yahoo.co.uk
 http://www.zimbabweassociation.co.uk

Association of Zimbabwean Journalists in the UK (AZJ-UK)
 http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com

CurrentTV video pod on the issue:
 http://current.com/items/85017441_mugabe_s_millions

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Nottingham Speakers’ Corner Officially begun
 http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/02/392159.html

including ..... audio of speech by Adrian Lunga, Zimbabwean human rights activist
 http://indymedia.org.uk/media/2008/02//392185.mp3

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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email:  tash@indymedia.org
Member of the National Union of Journalists [No: 014345]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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