On Saturday April 15th around 300 people marched through Manchester as part of international protests against immigration detention [ call out and more details] People came from Leeds, Newcastle and elsewhere to join the protest and included many asylum seekers and refugees.
The March started outside Strangeways Prison where asylum seekers are being detained for working illegally. The demo went along Deansgate, past British Airways who deport asylum seekers, and then stopped outside the registry office where people from Brides Without Borders spoke about their campaigns and experiences. The March continued on to China Town where the cockle picker s who died at Morcambe Bay were remembered and it ended in a rally at the Peace Gardens.
Reports: 1 | 2 | 3
Audio : chants | more chants | Suzanne Foreman from Brides Without Borders talks about setting up Brides Without Borders and how the Campaign is growing | Lisa Gordon from Brides Without Borders talks about living with her husband being under constant threat of deportation | Farhat Khan from Women Asylum Seekers Together (WAST) talks about facing deportation with your children and how people should have the right to choose who to marry | Sheka Tarawalie an NUJ member talks about his anti-deportation campaign.
This demo follows a demonstartion at Colnbrook and Heathrow Detention centres last weekend and over 100 detainees on hunger strike.
Links: National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns | Noone is Illegal
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Neo-Nazis Hijacking Indymedia Once Again
27.06.2006 08:00
Refugees aren't a problem. Most, when allowed to work, bring great benefits to the economy. The laws stop asylum seekers from working for months after they arrive in the United Kingdom. Preventing hard working people from working (many are skilled workers who could put their skills to use as ever-so-needed "doctors, nurses, and engineers, as well as useful unskilled labour to do the jobs lazy white racists would never consider doing in a trillion years because it is beyond their capacity to do a crap job.
Tony Blair's hardly a fair-minded man, and if Cameron gets elected, things will be much, much worse. He intends to scrap human rights for asylum seekers, just as Hitler removed all human rights and dignity from Jewish people, seperating their humanity from the rest of the population. You'd so approve of that, even if it isn't severe enough. You read Mein fucking Kamph, your struggle of evil over fucking good.
Nomal people don't believe everything they read in the scum papers, as they know racist, reactionary reporting, commonly known as "populism, sells tabloids.
The fact there are black people and refugees fleeing oppression, living in Moss Side isn't the cause of crime. It's a poor working class area with dirt-cheap housing. And if you wish to lump together black and Asian people with refugees (they are British like me and you), "you sick racist bastard", you're doubly as thick as I thought you are.
Its discrimination, alienation, and several other factors that keep job prospects bleak, wages low, and the greedy, biggotted Enoch Powellian Tory-voting employers who don't give people interviews based on the postcodes they live in. There are plenty of all-white areas that suffer problems with crime, too. It's poverty levels, not colour of skin and nationality, that lead to anti-social behaviour, you complete and absolute pillock!
The BNP is just like Al Quida, a cult of brainwashed geeks! But if they had their way, they would be worse. They would copy Hitler and open concentration camps, or restart slavery, if they could, with their friends in the Confederate Knights of USA.
Indymedia should be out of reach for crude racist propagandists like Fred (Nick Cass), as like their beloved Adolf Hitler and his dog-eared copy of Mein Kamph, they pollute people's reasoning with racist propaganda, fuelled by hatred, fear, and downright ignorance.
Fuck off Nick Cass, you pug ugly tit!!!
MalcolmX
Nick Cass Is Indeed Ugly
27.06.2006 08:14
Yeah! He is hardly what I'd call attractive to the eye, as isn't, his championing of the policies of Adolf Hitler.
It's a shame Indymedia has been hijacked by the BNP "bigwigs", trying to divide and conquer the united city of Manchester by scapegoating black, asian, people and asylum seekers fleeing terror.
There's no difference between the upper middle class BNP, and predesessor Oswald Moseley, who found no support in Manchester for his racist lies, also. We don't even like Tories in this city, let alone neo-Nazi loons.
BEWARE BNP MEDIA DEPARTMENT TROLLS HIJACKING INDYMEDIA!
Wren And Scampi
Wren And Scampi are Middle-Class Poseur Students
18.07.2006 14:52
Funny how they named a street in the city centre after him then isn't it.....
I shouldn't be too hard on you I suppose - after all you're probably just a pair of wanky middle-class twats from Surrey on the usual student gap year experience of 'Northern life'...... you twats.
Ketlan's Mummy
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Brides without borders!
19.07.2006 22:38
simon
trolls
14.08.2006 14:58
Get back to Stormponce, losers!!!
Duffy The nazi Slayer
English GCSE
14.08.2006 15:02
COme on, don't wanky Hitler worshippers have enough brain cells to pass a GCSE?
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