At the above meeting on 6 May, demonstration was called for 6pm on Saturday 9 May 2009 as part of the process to build an anti-deportation campaign against the deportation of the 11 Pakistani students arrested in Cheetham Hill in April, some of whom are held in Strangeways prison, Salford.
At a Respect meeting in Cheetham Hill on 6 May, the meeting unanimously agreed to begin to build an anti-deportation campaign against the deportation of the 11 Pakistani students arrested in Cheetham Hill on 1 April, some of whom are held in Strangeways gaol (HMP Manchester, off Bury New Road). So a demonstration was called by the meeting for 6pm on Saturday 9 May 2009 at Strangeways prison.
Please support this demo and help prevent the deportation of these innocent students arrested as part of Labour's war on Muslim and immigrant communities.
No to all deportations! No to Labour's police state!
Defend all immigrants and asylum seekers!
Hands of the Muslim community!
P.S. Nahella Ashraf, of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) attended the meeting in Cheetham Hill on 6 May, but failed to announce the proposed Strangeways demonstration at a meeting she chaired the very next day on the terror raids and criminalising communities at the Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square. This sectarianism (or forgetfulness) is truly shameful but sadly typical of the SWP/STWC. The 'We didn't organise the event so we won't support it' trend of the social democratic British 'left' has to end as it doesn't help anyone, let alone the 11 Pakistani students facing deportation.
Please support this demo and help prevent the deportation of these innocent students arrested as part of Labour's war on Muslim and immigrant communities.
No to all deportations! No to Labour's police state!
Defend all immigrants and asylum seekers!
Hands of the Muslim community!
P.S. Nahella Ashraf, of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) attended the meeting in Cheetham Hill on 6 May, but failed to announce the proposed Strangeways demonstration at a meeting she chaired the very next day on the terror raids and criminalising communities at the Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square. This sectarianism (or forgetfulness) is truly shameful but sadly typical of the SWP/STWC. The 'We didn't organise the event so we won't support it' trend of the social democratic British 'left' has to end as it doesn't help anyone, let alone the 11 Pakistani students facing deportation.
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when?
08.05.2009 20:03
do you know that it clashes with a much-advertised public campaign meeting by the Pakistani Community? (well, it might...the meeting is at 2pm in Longsight).
it seems that the various socialist organisation that want to assume a leadership role in this campaign all need reach out a bit more to each other - and to the affected communities and unaligned activists.
one of no borders
time 6pm
08.05.2009 20:05
one of no borders
Public meeting: Stop the Deportations
09.05.2009 00:01
I agree with the above posts, and hope you can all make it to the above mentioned public meeting at 2pm in Longsight for muslims and non-muslims alike, to come together around the issue of these deportations of Pakistanis for the crime of being innocent, and hence of embarrassing the Home Office. I will try to attach the pdf of the flyer for the meeting. It is at 2pm at the Pakistani Community Centre on Stockport Road, Longsight. All are welcome to voice their concerns and get involved in the much-needed campaign to spring these poor guys out of detention pending appeal against deportation by executive fiat, and more broadly to restore our civil liberties and repeal recent venal legislative instruments such as the Terrorism so-called "Act" 2000. (No representative assembly can meaningfully act to deprive those it represents of their liberty. Such "acts" are a betrayal of the represented and are null and void by their own hand.)
Best Wishes,
Jim
Jim