London No Border Camp 2007 Newswire Archive

11-04-2008 11:31

Wed 16th: Demo in solidarity to the Harmondsworth detainees

Althogh many detainees have resumed eating following the repression, some are still on hunger strike. The repression continues, we just had news that another of the hunger strikers has been taken and put in isolation. The detainees want us to demonstrate and make their voice heard. Read more >>

09-04-2008 20:21

Reminder: Demo at the Home Office Fiday 11th noon

Stop handcuffing and manhandling asylum seekers in the detention centres and forcibly deporting them!

End detention and deportation!
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06-04-2008 19:34

Harmodsworth repression

It is official: some detainees have been assaulted and injuried when the riot police intervened to break the hunger strike and took 30 detainees out Harmondsworth IRC.
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05-04-2008 12:11

Repression of the Harmondsworth detainees' protest

Riot police intervene to break the hunger strike Read more >>

04-04-2008 14:01

Harmondsworth detainees' petition

Original text of the petition written by the Harmondsworth detainees on hunger strike. Read more >>

04-04-2008 09:03 | 1 addition

Harmondsworth detainees on hunger strike

From this morning 300 detainees in Harmondsworth are refusing food. Read more >>

02-04-2008 12:33

Harmondsworth protest update

The detainees (allegedly over 100) who spent the night in the courtyard went back inside this morning. Most are still refusing food. There are fights breaking out this moment because the guards were taunting the detainees over food.

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01-04-2008 20:17 | 1 addition

Harmodsworth detainees protest, 1st April 2008

Since this morning at 9am, all - or the majority at least- of immigration detainees at Harmondsworth removal centre have being refusing food and have been in peaceful occupation of the courtyard.
'We are human beings, we want to be treated with dignity we shall stay in the coutyard until our demands are heard.' Read more >>

12-03-2008 13:29

No Borders @ Hackney Social Centre

Full program + flyer! Read more >>

10-03-2008 15:17

Protest to stop the removal of Guy Njike Wed 12th March Parlaiment Square

Protest to stop the removal of Guy Njike back to Cameroon
NO DEPORTATIONS TO TORTURE! Read more >>

08-03-2008 17:34

No Borders @ Hackney Social Centre

An evening of talks, film and workshops by no borders activists, migrants and asylum seekers followed by cafe, bands and DJs.
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03-03-2008 14:58

Demonstrate Against Deportations to Cameroon

This demonstration is a prompt response to recent killings in Cameroon orchestrated by the dictatorial regime of Paul Biya. The situation in Cameroon is not safe at all and is expected to become worse during the coming days. Read more >>

29-02-2008 10:07

Harmondsworth disturbance, demand for a public inquiry hearing

A demonstration will be held outside the Court of Appeal as it prepares to hear a case brought by Liberty asking for a judicial review of the government's refusal to hold a public inquiry into the disturbance at Harmondsworth in November 2006. Read more >>

16-02-2008 10:24

Unlawful Detention

An asylum seeker continues to languish in Britains (Guantanamo Bay) Harmondsworth Detention Centre for 8 months after been detained despite the facts that it is against Home Office published policy on detention, on parents enagaged in Child Contact Proceedings and Case law regarding eminent removal. Read more >>

12-02-2008 10:39

A migrant broke his neck in a desperate bid to avoid being deported.

The 34-year-old African is understood to have repeatedly hit his head against a wall while he was being held in a cell at Tinsley House immigration removal centre. Read more >>

17-01-2008 16:45

Shift #2 - Heathrow or Gatwick: what camp are you in?

The second issue of Shift Magazine has just been published. It compares the politics of climate camp and no borders camp, includes an interview with the spacehijackers, and has a review of the 8 Dec. Climate March. We have posted the editorial below:

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25-11-2007 13:09

Ken Loach & NoBorders in Crawley Tuesday 27th November

On Tuesday 27th November, renowned filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Sweet Sixteen, Kes) is coming to Crawley to show and talk about his new film "It's a Free World...". This film is a drama about a single mother and depicts the reality of living and working in the UK as a so-called illegal immigrant.
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