World Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

// Joint Communiqué MLC-GALSIC (Cuban Libertarian Movement – Support Group for Libertarians and Independent Sindicalists of Cuba)

Yarl's Wood five update, Sheffield Family Campaign, Iraqi deportations, Vietnam, EDM

Informations about the No Border camp and other initiatives in Brussels, from the 25th september to the 3rd october.
[If there is not indication about the language, it mean the links are in english].

On September 29-30, Brussels, the EU capital, will be in the eye of
the storm.

Patrick Masengo, has left the UK
The last message from Patrick was on Saturday at 5:50 am to say that he was handcuffed and had 12 security officers controlling him. Attempts to contact Patrick since then have failed. Many thanks to all who tried to prevent the removal.
Keep Patrick Masengo in the UK, no removals to DR Congo
 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Media-2/PatrickMasengo.html

Took place Saturday 4th September outside the French Embassy in London

The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain (ITMB) and various UK refugee/migrant support groups demonstrated in solidarity with the Roma communities who are being forcefully evicted and deported in France. ITMB deplores President Sarkozy's policies which have resulted in families with children as young as 2 weeks old being evicted with less than 30 minutes notice.

Irish Travellers Group (who organized the demo) and English Gypsies are acutely aware of the racist anti Roma policies that are spreading across Europe. In recent days Roma communities in Italy have been made homeless when bulldozers razed the camps they lived on to the ground. In Hungry the far right Jobbick party have called for Roma communities to be detained in special guarded camps for indefinite periods of time.

ITMB would like to remind the British Government and public that the largest eviction of a Gypsy Roma Traveller community in Europe is presently taking place in Dale Farm, Essex. Like the Roma in Europe, Irish Travellers and English Gypsies in Britain face direct racism and discrimination on a daily basis.

GRT - Gypsy, Roma and Irish Travellers are the largest Minority group in Europe.

Gypsy's gained Ethnic Minority status in 1989 and Irish Travellers in 2000 and are since protected under the 'Race Relations Act 1976'. 9 out of 10 children from the GRT community have experienced racial abuse and nearly a third have been bullied or physically attacked.

For further information please call Irish Traveller Movement in Britain on 020 7607 2002 or email  info@irishtraveller.org.uk

Saturday 4th September 2010
Congregate 1:00pm outside French Embassy
58 Knightsbridge
London
SW1X 7JT
(Nearest Tube Knightsbridge)

This demo is part of a European wide protest organized by European Network Against Racism
 http://www.enar-eu.org/Page_Generale.asp?DocID=25135&langue=EN

Overall there were only 4 incidents of serious self-harm, more than the previous quarter and only an increase of 1, on persons on formal self-harm at risk.

However there are very alarming increases at some of the individual Removal Centres.

Dover IRC showed a 125% increase on incidents of Self-Harm requiring medical treatment

Harmondsworth 54% , Oakington 46.5 %, Yarl's Wood  31% increase on previous quarter of persons on formal self-harm at risk.

There was one death, cause as yet unknown: Eliud Nguli Nyenze born 1970 - died Oakington IRC 15th April 2010
 http://tinyurl.com/23gmgrx

[Self-Harm in Immigration detention - January/February/March 2010
 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Resources/self-harm2010.html

Data for 2009 can be accessed here:
 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Resources/self-harm2009.html

[DR Congo is a failed state, the 5th most dangerous country in the world to live in. DR Congo cannot protect its' citizens from itself, it's police/army or other agents. Cannot provide for its' citizens, adequate food/shelter/healthcare, rape of women and children is epidemic.]

Thessaloniki
8 - 9 -10 of Septemeber 2010
The schedule of speeches and public discussions.

Mother and Children required to deport themselves

Mildred Okpara and her two young children and baby are still in their Sheffield accommodation. They have received a letter from UKBA to report to Heathrow airport on Thursday the 2nd September.

Kirklees Refugee Forum are supporting a campaign to keep the family in Sheffield and would like your presence (if possible) in Sheffield this Friday.

Join the protest outside the Home Office UK Border Agency

Keep the Okpara family safe in Sheffield!

Come and join us on the demonstration and bring as many people as possible. Please bring placards and banners

UK Border Agency
Vulcan House
Riverside entrance
6 Millsands
Sheffield
S3 8NU

Friday 27th August     12:30 to 1:30

For more information or if you want to help with the campaign contact:
Stop the Deportation of the Okpara
Family c/o Sheena 07792605138
or email     memesheena@blueyonder.co.uk

Kirklees Refugee Forum
 http://www.kirkleesrefugeeforum.org.uk/

Rehearsals for the live public performance of the pantomime reality show “The Martians Have Landed” to be performed on the streets of Edinburgh on the day of mass action by the climate campers at the Camp for Climate Action were very successful.
The White Rabbit visited the media tent to inform the media team about what the kids' bloc Children's Revolution was going to be all about to any journalists who might have been interested.

Hundreds of protesters swarmed about outside the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters opposite the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh and were threatened with arrest by police.

Two climate camp protesters have been arrested by police after windows were broken on the Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters building in Edinburgh.
Local Scottish journalist Jono Warren has been reporting the protests at the Camp for Climate Action and tweeting on Twitter under the name “nmec”.

Auditions have begun for a live interactive show entitled “The Martians Have Landed” at the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
Produced and directed by the Children of the Eco-Warriors “The Martians Have Landed” will be the story of the kids' bloc Children's Revolution at the climate camp.

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

There appears to have been a deadly serious game of cat and mouse going on between environmental activists, a local Scottish journalist, and the right wing extremist who has been threatening violence against the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
Boasting that he is a professional soldier recently returned from fighting in Afghanistan where he says he killed Muslims for reading Islamic literature, and now posting his threats on Twitter under the name “wearethebritish” the extremist claims to have been using British Army military surveillance equipment to spy on the climate campers.

Saturday, 09:00 to 11:00 (2010-08-21) 9amEST
Host: Ron Bobb-Semple

Some of the original road protesters from the 1990s are issuing a call-out to parents to bring their children to the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh to lend their support to a giant kids' march Children's Revolution on the day of mass action on Monday 23 August 2010.
It is being proposed that the climate campers should unite and join forces with the teenagers and students at the Edinburgh Festival to help create a new global youth movement to fight against global warming and climate change and to show the evil cowards who have threatened to burn down the climate camp that the eco-warriors will not tolerate this attempt to intimidate and terrorise them.

Three climate activists were arrested by Scottish police as they took the site for the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh which set up very close to the Royal Bank of Scotland Headquarters at Gogarburn Gardens off Gogar Station Road just after 9pm yesterday evening.
It is understood that the three who were arrested have all been released without charge.