For an end to immigration detention
For freedom of movement and equal rights for all!

Every year up to 30.000 innocent people including 2000 children are detained arbitrarily and indefinirely in the UK under immigration powers, in purpose built prisons for migrants. Torture and rape survivors are routinley detained, so are pregnant women and people who have or deveolp serious ilnessess and mental health problems.
The human suffering caused is unspekable, and there is a long history of resistace by immigration detainees, uprisings, hungerstrikes, fires. Yarls Wood was half destroyed by fire in 2002 with great danger to those locked inside, and Harmondsworth in 2004, in 2006 Harmondsworth had to close down again due to damage caused during an uprising, and this are only highlights in a long list of similar incidents involving all of the UK detention centres. Despite that, the UK government want to increase detention by 60%, have built a new detention centre near Gatwick called Brook House that is about to be open, want to build a second detention centre next to Yarls Wood, which has now got the go-ahead, and are in talks to build another mega detention centre near Bullington, Oxfordshire.
The demo at Yarls Wood is against the detention of children and families, and against all detention centres and the expansion of detention. Please join us! Travel from London by coach free to those not allowed to work.

Chech out more:
 http://london.noborders.org.uk/yarlswood2009


We meet at tomorrow Sunday 15th at 3pm for making banners/ plackards for the demo at Yarls Wood. From 5 pm film, music, food and open discussion @ LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, London E1 (nearest tube Whitechapel)
Films include No Borders demos against detention, documentary on the detention of families and children, communities in resistance, recent protests and fire in Lampedusa Italy and more...