Manchester Migration Newswire Archive

Dissident Island Radio - check out the show

dissident chickpea, 25-02-2010 12:25

Check out the 53rd episode of Dissident Island Radio, broadcast live on 19 February 2010... Read more >>

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Migrant Hangar reopens despite police repression

Calais Migrant Solidarity, 17-02-2010 11:32

After last weeks violent raid, the Kronstadt Hangar is back in business!! Read more | 2 additions | 6 comments >>

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Solidarity hunger strike for detained asylum seekers

MULE, 11-02-2010 22:54

84 Northwest No Borders activists will take part in a 24-hour fast this Friday 12 February in support of the 84 detainees on hunger strike in the Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre in Bedfordshire. The female detainees at Yarl’s Wood began their hunger strike to protest at the length of their incarceration in the centre, as well as inhumane treatment. Read more >>

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Phil Woolas answers your questions

Manchester No Borders, 02-02-2010 18:02

***please spread this widely***

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12.30, anti-immigration minister Phil Woolas will
participate in a live webchat to answer questions on immigration, ID cards
and the UK Border Agency for the Manchester Evening News. Read more >>

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Dissident Island Radio - back in your earholes tonight

Dissident Werewolf, 15-01-2010 17:22

London No Borders // Smash EDO // Cloak & Dinner // NCH Freeshop // xtrats Read more >>

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Playwright Lydia Besong arrested at Dallas Court

MULE, 10-12-2009 21:36

Supporters of Lydia Besong are demanding her immediate release after she was detained this morning by immigration officials. Lydia, a playwright and human rights activist seeking asylum in the UK, was snatched this morning while signing in at the Home Office Reporting Centre Dallas Court in Salford. Read more >>

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Ride Bikes, Have fun, Support MCDAS, Give kids presents...awesome.

I Bike MCR, 02-12-2009 16:37

A treasurehunt on bicycles to support Manchester Commitee to Defend Asylum Seekers. The riders, in pairs, will be following a set route and buying and collecting presents that will then be donated to MCDAS Chidren's Christmas Party. Read more >>

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Local Playwright and Human Rights Campaigner told to leave UK

MULE, 19-11-2009 20:32

Lydia Besong and her husband Bernard Batey fled Cameroon and came to the UK seeking asylum on 17 December 2006. On 29 October 2009 the couple returned to their home in Rochdale to find a letter from the Border and Immigration Agency informing them that they must return to Cameroon, where Lydia she is still wanted by the authorities since escaping prison. Read more >>

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Students thrown off English course at Manchester College

MULE, 18-11-2009 16:51

Up to 300 students have been thrown off the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) course at Manchester College. The college says this is because of “an unforeseen error in ESOL enrolment” and changes in government funding. Read more >>

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The EDL: The BNP’s Useful Idiots? (Part 2)

MULE, 18-11-2009 10:28

The second part of Ragnor Ironpants look into the links between the English Defence League (EDL) and the BNP… Read more | 2 comments >>

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Immigrant workers arrested in factory raid

MULE, 16-11-2009 09:26

Police and immigration officers arrested 23 workers at a clothes factory in Ardwick, Manchester, last Wednesday as part of a massive raid to catch people working illegally. Read more >>

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The EDL: The BNP’s Useful Idiots? (Part 1)

MULE, 11-11-2009 14:34

With the EDL meeting up the road in Leeds a week back, Ragnor Ironpants digs below the surface to find what’s really behind the phenomenon. Read more | 2 comments >>

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The EDL and Mainstream Society

MULE, 04-11-2009 18:00

With the EDL marching on our streets and the BNP on Question Time, it would be easy to dismiss this resurgence in extreme-right feeling as the product of a minority group on the fringes of our comfortably democratic, free-thinking, liberal society. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Griffin on Question Time: a False Victory for Smug Liberals

MULE, 02-11-2009 15:23

A week on from his infamous performance on Question Time, MULE columnist Ragnor Ironpants weighs up the impact of the Northwest’s favourite Euro-MP’s TV appearance. Read more | 1 addition | 1 comment >>

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Muslim graves desecrated in hate campaign

MULE, 05-10-2009 11:12

One week before anti-Islam protesters the English Defence League (EDL) hit Manchester, up to 20 Muslim graves have been damaged by vandals at Manchester Southern Cemetery. Police are treating it as a hate crime. Read more >>

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Iranian mother and daughter facing imminent deportation

MULE, 02-10-2009 13:00

A campaign is underway to prevent the deportation of a 16 year old Iranian girl and her mother. They are currently being held 150 miles outside of their home in Salford at the notorious Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, where they have been for over three weeks. Read more | 2 comments >>

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Interview with Calais migrant on hunger strike

just red, 01-10-2009 16:41

2pm, Wednesday 30th August 2009. Parc Saint Pierre, Calais Read more >>

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Eviction of Eritrean Squat, Calais, France

just red, 01-10-2009 16:35

Today No Borders activists demonstrated outside the Eritrean house, which was evicted yesterday. Read more >>

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Labour's Tony McNulty on the platform of Unite Against Fascism

James Taylor, 27-09-2009 20:49

Labour racist Tony McNulty invited onto the platform of the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) counter-demonstration in Harrow in september 2009. Read more | 4 comments >>

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The Case for Illegal Immigrants

Damola Awoyokun, 27-09-2009 13:56

The struggle to make our illegal brothers and sisters equal to us in status and opportunities belongs to the same spectrum as the abolition of slavery, women suffrage, fight against racism and fight for gay rights. Everyone has to take a stand. Read more | 4 comments >>

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