National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns (NCADC) North West
invites you to
2005 Solidarity & Planning gathering
Saturday 15th January 2005 - 10.30 am - Central Methodist Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
invites you to
2005 Solidarity & Planning gathering
Saturday 15th January 2005 - 10.30 am - Central Methodist Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
Timetable
Morning : anti-deportation campaigning.
Afternoon : planning April 2nd EU Day of Action & other events
*** Plan major 2005 events in the North West
*** Share skills & experience between individual anti-deportation campaigns in the North West
*** Workshop 1 - "What is a public Anti-Deportation Campaign ?"
*** Workshop 2 - Planning the North West's actions on April 2nd European Day of Action
*** Video - The Great Manchester Anti-Deportation Campaigns of the 70's and 80's
*** Meet groups who are opposed to unjust immigration policies who may be able to support you
This will be a relaxed gathering with particular emphasis on campaigns sharing experience, skills and resources. We have seen how a journalist facing deportation who wrote about Honour Killings in Pakistan, is helping a local woman who would face Honour Killing in Pakistan is helping her with campaign materials and getting article published. A Ugandan woman who has recently started campaigning has breathed new life into a Cameroon woman's campaign, who had been loosing energy after campaigning for so long. Levenshulme & Longsight Anti-Deportation campaign continues to bring local campaigns together. We want to help promote as much co-operation between campaigns as possible - "clusters" of mutual support and strength. For those not facing deportation, this is an opportunity to promote any group you belong to - tables for leaflets will be available. There will be time for chatting to others, and have some fun. Let's all join together to make to makes successful campaigns in 2005 and make 2nd April huge !
2nd April 2005 European-wide Day of Action
Called at the European Social Forum. The Call of the Assembly of Social Movement - "We stand against racism and Fortress Europe and for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers; for freedom of movement; for citizenship of residence and the closing of detention centres. We oppose deportation of migrants. We propose a day of action on 2 April 2005, against racism, for freedom of movement and for the right to stay as an alternative to a Europe based on exclusion and exploitation." Groups we know of so far in the North West who want to join forces for this event Š National Union of Journalists, Mansoor Hassan Campaign, NCADC North West, Manchester Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, Manchester No Borders, Manchester No One Is Illegal - we hope others will join us.
Agenda
10.30 Coffee & registration / travel reimbursement
11.00 Introductions of each campaign / individual
12.00 Speakers, poem and a song !
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Video
2.00 2nd April and other 2005 major events planning
3.00 Break
3.30 Workshop 1 - "What is an Anti-Deportation Campaign ?"
3.30 Workshop 2 - Planning 2nd April European Day of Action
5.00 close
Who should attend
Those who won their campaigns - we need your experience ! Those facing deportation who have campaigns - we want to share with you ! Those facing deportation who are considering starting a campaign - we want to support you ! Community groups and groups opposed to unjust immigration policies - we need your support ! Please bring any of your group's / campaign's banners - we want to decorate the hall !
Available during the day
*** Food (vegetarian & Halal catered for) *** Drinks (no alcohol) *** Child-care *** Disabled access *** Tables for displaying your group's / campaign's literature / petitions *** Table for any unwanted Christmas gifts & non-perishable foods you could bring !
Central Methodist Hall - Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ (0161 236 5194). 5 mins walk from Piccadilly main train station. Map - www.methodist.org.uk/images/manchester-citymap-big.jpg
Help with travel
We do not have an official budget for this gathering but we will help as far as possible with travel arrangements and costs for those facing deportation. All bus fares from within Greater Manchester will be reimbursed. From outside Greater Manchester area - please contact the person below nearest you - they will endeavour to organise a place in a shared car for you.
Sheffield : Bernie Murphy - 07946 536681 (Manchester CDAS)
Leeds : John Ward - 07766 745635 (Leeds Stop The War)
Wigan : Lynne Calvert - 07939 812771 (Wigan Welcome)
Liverpool : Margaret McAdam - 07974 309677 (???)
Greater Manchester, general help / queries / directions -
Bernie Murphy - 07946 536681 (Manchester CDAS)
Please let us know if you can attend so we can plan catering, seating, child-care, etc.
Contact : Emma Ginn (NCADC) - 0161 740 6504 /
ncadc-north-west@ncadc.org.uk
Please take a copy of this invitation and pass on to Š
*** Any organisation who may join in 2nd April European Day of Action / other events
*** Anyone facing deportation
Thanks ! and Look forward to seeing you 15th Jan !
Morning : anti-deportation campaigning.
Afternoon : planning April 2nd EU Day of Action & other events
*** Plan major 2005 events in the North West
*** Share skills & experience between individual anti-deportation campaigns in the North West
*** Workshop 1 - "What is a public Anti-Deportation Campaign ?"
*** Workshop 2 - Planning the North West's actions on April 2nd European Day of Action
*** Video - The Great Manchester Anti-Deportation Campaigns of the 70's and 80's
*** Meet groups who are opposed to unjust immigration policies who may be able to support you
This will be a relaxed gathering with particular emphasis on campaigns sharing experience, skills and resources. We have seen how a journalist facing deportation who wrote about Honour Killings in Pakistan, is helping a local woman who would face Honour Killing in Pakistan is helping her with campaign materials and getting article published. A Ugandan woman who has recently started campaigning has breathed new life into a Cameroon woman's campaign, who had been loosing energy after campaigning for so long. Levenshulme & Longsight Anti-Deportation campaign continues to bring local campaigns together. We want to help promote as much co-operation between campaigns as possible - "clusters" of mutual support and strength. For those not facing deportation, this is an opportunity to promote any group you belong to - tables for leaflets will be available. There will be time for chatting to others, and have some fun. Let's all join together to make to makes successful campaigns in 2005 and make 2nd April huge !
2nd April 2005 European-wide Day of Action
Called at the European Social Forum. The Call of the Assembly of Social Movement - "We stand against racism and Fortress Europe and for the rights of migrants and asylum seekers; for freedom of movement; for citizenship of residence and the closing of detention centres. We oppose deportation of migrants. We propose a day of action on 2 April 2005, against racism, for freedom of movement and for the right to stay as an alternative to a Europe based on exclusion and exploitation." Groups we know of so far in the North West who want to join forces for this event Š National Union of Journalists, Mansoor Hassan Campaign, NCADC North West, Manchester Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, Manchester No Borders, Manchester No One Is Illegal - we hope others will join us.
Agenda
10.30 Coffee & registration / travel reimbursement
11.00 Introductions of each campaign / individual
12.00 Speakers, poem and a song !
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Video
2.00 2nd April and other 2005 major events planning
3.00 Break
3.30 Workshop 1 - "What is an Anti-Deportation Campaign ?"
3.30 Workshop 2 - Planning 2nd April European Day of Action
5.00 close
Who should attend
Those who won their campaigns - we need your experience ! Those facing deportation who have campaigns - we want to share with you ! Those facing deportation who are considering starting a campaign - we want to support you ! Community groups and groups opposed to unjust immigration policies - we need your support ! Please bring any of your group's / campaign's banners - we want to decorate the hall !
Available during the day
*** Food (vegetarian & Halal catered for) *** Drinks (no alcohol) *** Child-care *** Disabled access *** Tables for displaying your group's / campaign's literature / petitions *** Table for any unwanted Christmas gifts & non-perishable foods you could bring !
Central Methodist Hall - Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JQ (0161 236 5194). 5 mins walk from Piccadilly main train station. Map - www.methodist.org.uk/images/manchester-citymap-big.jpg
Help with travel
We do not have an official budget for this gathering but we will help as far as possible with travel arrangements and costs for those facing deportation. All bus fares from within Greater Manchester will be reimbursed. From outside Greater Manchester area - please contact the person below nearest you - they will endeavour to organise a place in a shared car for you.
Sheffield : Bernie Murphy - 07946 536681 (Manchester CDAS)
Leeds : John Ward - 07766 745635 (Leeds Stop The War)
Wigan : Lynne Calvert - 07939 812771 (Wigan Welcome)
Liverpool : Margaret McAdam - 07974 309677 (???)
Greater Manchester, general help / queries / directions -
Bernie Murphy - 07946 536681 (Manchester CDAS)
Please let us know if you can attend so we can plan catering, seating, child-care, etc.
Contact : Emma Ginn (NCADC) - 0161 740 6504 /
ncadc-north-west@ncadc.org.uk Please take a copy of this invitation and pass on to Š
*** Any organisation who may join in 2nd April European Day of Action / other events
*** Anyone facing deportation
Thanks ! and Look forward to seeing you 15th Jan !
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European noborder action day
23.12.2004 10:13
2nd of april 05: second European day of action
Call for a second European day of action and mobilisation
06.Nov.04 - Last year a European day of action, on January 31st, against detention centres and for the legalisation of undocumented migrants was launched during ESF in Paris. On the 31st of January 2004 demonstrations and actions were held in more than fourty cities in Europe; it was an important day in the development of a networking process amongst migrant struggles and activists on a European level.
We propose a second day of action and demonstrations on April 2nd, 2005, claiming freedom of movement and the right to stay as an alternative to the european constitutional process based on exclusion and exploitation. We refer to the material dimension of citizenship and how the borders of this citizenship are constructed and managed, both in their external and their internal dimension. We think that migrants are the first subjects to experience living and working conditions that the whole workforce is just beginning to experience in Europe. We regard detention centres as the dark symbol of a migratory politics not simply aimed to take migrants and refugees out of Europe, but rather at promoting a process of selective inclusion, corresponding the "precarisation" and the production of a new model of labour force management.
Freedom of movement encompasses different struggles for housing and legalisation, inside the workplaces, against the camps, to provide a trans-national framework for the deepening and multiplication of several forms of struggle. We invite all groups, networks and social movements, not only the ones working on migration-related issues, to join this call and to mobilize for April 2nd 2005. Demonstrations and struggles must take place everywhere in Europe on that day!
Tavolo Migranti dei Social forum italiani (Italy) - Act Up Paris (France) - Indymedia Estrecho (Spain) - No one is illegal-amplitude (Germany) - Kanak Attak (Germany) - Immigrati in Movimento (Italy) - Association for legalisation (Germany) - Malaga Social Forum (Spain) - CGT Andalusia (Spain) - Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (Italy) - ARCI (Italy) - Sincobas (Italy) - Droit!!Devant (France) - Barbed Wire (GB) - Asemblea por la regularizacion sin condiciones (Spain) - No Border London (UK) - Network for social support to immigrants and refugees (Greece) - SOS Racismo (Portugal) - Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees (UK) - Campaigns to Close Campsfield (UK) - NCADC (UK) - No-one is illegal (UK) - Kent campaign to defend asylum seekers (UK) - Universal Ambassy (Belgium) - Comitato immigrati in Italia (Italy) - Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal) - Dost Je! (Slovenia)
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