Oxford Migration Newswire Archive

18-04-2005 21:35 | 1 comment(s)

June 25: no one is illegal conference

On Saturday June 25, the no one is illegal manifesto group is organising a No One Is Illegal conference in Manchester. All invited. Read more >>

11-04-2005 10:11 | 0 comment(s)

Young asylum seekers exhibit at MOA

EXHIBITION: Young asylum seekers explore how they have adapted to life in Oxford

12 April - 29 May Modern Art Oxford Café, Pembroke Street, Oxford Read more >>

06-04-2005 22:31 | 0 comment(s)

Campaigners in Oxford condemn GSL Ltd to government inquiry

Following the BBC exposé of racism and violence by GSL employees in the programme "Detention Undercover", there will be a government inquiry by the prison ombudsman Stephen Shaw into GSL Ltd's suitability to run immigration detention centres. Campaigners in Oxford have made the following submission to the inquiry: Read more >>

26-03-2005 21:39 | 0 comment(s)

Report and Pictures from Close Campsfield Demonstration.

About 25 people and a small samba band attended todays Close Campsfield at Campsfield House Immigration detention centre near Kidlington. Read more >>

26-03-2005 12:09 | 5 comment(s)

Film and Talk: No Lager Nowhere! Thurs 31 March

2nd European Day of Action on Migrants Rights

Events due to take place in Oxford
Read more >>

06-03-2005 10:17 | 2 comment(s)

Azim Ansari Rally - a few more pics

04-02-2005 11:08 | 0 comment(s)

Immigration Detention Centre demonstration - 19th Feb

Demonstrate against Detention & Deportations
Harmondsworth & Colnbrook Removal Centres (near Heathrow)

Saturday 19th February 2005; 11.30am - 1.30pm
And maybe staying on for a Barbed Wire Britain Network meeting
afterwards. Read more >>

22-12-2004 13:47 | 0 comment(s)

urgent: deportation @ Heathrow 24th Dec

Political activist from Bangladesh will be deported from Heathrow Terminal 3 Flight GF2 on Friday 24th. Check in opens at 6.30 when I will start flyering passengers. The flight is at 9.30am. PLEASE come and help! Airport security means the more people the safer it is. If you can't come, fax the airline on Thursday 23rd: Gulf Air: 0208 600 1715/0208 600 7460. He has been in detention, separated from his wife and 2 children, and it is likely he will be killed on his return. Model Fax attached. email with ideas/more info. Read more >>

08-12-2004 21:30 | 0 comment(s)

latest oxfud graff flix

heres sum ov my holiday snaps 2 cheer u up! Read more >>

30-11-2004 14:45 | 2 comment(s)

Demonstration at immigration detention centre in Oxfordshire

Last Saturday 27th November, between 50 and 100 people gathered outside Campsfield Removal Centre to demonstrate about the unjust imprisonment of migrants which has now been happening at Campsfield for eleven years. Read more >>

29-11-2004 17:30 | 0 comment(s)

immigration problems

today 29th November a lorry containing at least 5 foreign illegal entrants to the UK were seen to exit from the trailer of the vehicle in the sleepy village of Overthorpe,N0orthaptonshire.The driver was detained by police officers owing to the driver of another lorry blocking the road so as to prevent the Portugese driver from leaving the scene. Read more >>

23-11-2004 11:18 | 0 comment(s)

Vigil for Azim and Wali Ansari 23rd November

Candle Vigil at St John's
Tuesday 23 November 2004
17:30 - 18:30
Read more >>

19-11-2004 09:23 | 1 comment(s)

Urgent campaign against deportation of Oxford University student

Azim Ansari is an Afghan refugee studying at St Johns. The Home Office is trying to deport him and his brother back to Afghanistan, claiming it is now safe for them to return.

They want to stay here, to work and build a secure life for themselves. They fear further persecution in Afghanistan and since the disappearance of their family they have nobody and nothing to go back to.

More details of their case here:

http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/newszine50/waliazim.html Read more >>

08-11-2004 06:02 | 0 comment(s)

GYPSIES FACE EVICTION

Gypsies are facing eviction from their own land this week,
despite an all-party commission's recommendation today
(8 Nov) that a duty be placed on local authorities to provide
spaces for caravan parks.
Families at Twin Oaks, Ridge, near South Mimms are now
dug in waiting for Blair to act: will they get a place to go
or see their caravan site bulldozed, as happened at
Chelmsford earlier this year. Read more >>

03-11-2004 13:19 | 1 comment(s)

Close Campsfield 11th Anniversary Demo Planned

A demonstration is planned for Saturday the 27th of November to call for the closure of Campsfield House in Oxfordshire, one of the centres where refugees are imprisoned while their claims are being read. It commiserates 11 years of the centre's existence and pledges contnued support for the people held inside. Read more >>

18-09-2004 10:11 | 0 comment(s)

Bicester Refugee Support meeting: Migration in the Modern World

17-09-2004 09:40 | 1 comment(s)

Motion to Close Campsfield Before Oxford City Council Today

A motion goes before Oxford City Council today proposed by the Green Party, for the closure of Campsfield Immigration Detention Centre and that the proposed accomodation centre in Bicester should not be opened. Read more >>

08-09-2004 09:12 | 1 comment(s)

Bicester Refugee Support Open Meeting

Open meeting of Bicester Refugee Support - Tuesday, 21 September 2004 at 7.30 pm
in Bicester Methodist Church, Sheep Street, Bicester Read more >>

28-08-2004 18:57 | 1 comment(s)

POLICE INTIMIDATION REACHES FARCE-LEVEL AT CAMPSFIELD IMMIGRATION PRISON.

DO THEY WANT TO STOP US DEMONSTRATING AT CAMPSFIELD ALTOGETHER?

The police have, in the last few months, started to use intimidating tactics against what are normally peaceful and not very large demonstrations at Campsfield immigration prison. On the latest one, the intimidation reached heights of absurdity. Read more >>

03-08-2004 14:01 | 0 comment(s)

EXPANSION COULD MAKE CAMPSFIELD THE NEXT HARMONDSWORTH

PRESS RELEASE From the Campaign to Close Campsfield Immigrant Detention Centre Read more >>