UK Indymedia - UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

URGENT ACTION: Glasgow Family Detained

23-04-2007 14:03

16 year old Zahid Ahmed (on the right in the photo below) had been studying hard for his Physics exam this afternoon at the All Saints School in Springburn as part of his Standard Grades, but it is unlikely he will be able to take it.

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Organising Meeting for National day of action to 'Defend Asylum Rights', Saturda

23-04-2007 13:34

There will be an organising meeting on 28 April 2007 after the campaign stall at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 2pm to 4pm . All individuals and organisations are invited to this meeting to organise the national day of action called by TCAR. There will be sister activities taking place in Glasgow, Newcastle and London. NWASDG will be supporting this call. Everyone is welcome. Bring ideas and a willingness to take an active part.

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Anti-deportation stall, Saturday, 28 April 2007, 12pm.

23-04-2007 13:28

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest and stall on Saturday 28 April from 12.00pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. You are invited to attend and take an active part. Actions speak louder than words. Say no to the racist Labour government's policies of starvation, isolation, detention and deportation of refugees and asylum seekers, where it matters: on the streets. Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportations! No to British state racism!

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Australia: Sheikh denies Hezbollah funding

22-04-2007 23:57

But in an interview on SBS [AIPAC] the sheikh said all the funds went directly to needy families.

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Anti Gatwick detention centre demo

22-04-2007 20:11

Anti Gatwick detention centre demo.

Pictures to come.

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Cho and Meir: Birds of a Feather

22-04-2007 00:11

Of course, it was wrong, very wrong for Cho Seung-Hui to act upon his hatred, but then Cho wasn’t a former Mossad director.

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21/04/07: Video rush & report on Crawley anti-detention protest

21-04-2007 23:27

Today saw activists march in Crawley, near Gatwick airport, London, UK, to oppose the proposed new immigration detention centre.

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Pics: Stop New Gatwick Detention Centre Demo

21-04-2007 23:09

The sun was shining today in Crawley, West Sussex, when over 100 people took part in a demonstration trough the town centre. The protest was called by the NoBorders network to show opposition to the planned building of a new migrants detention centre near Gatwick airport. The new prison for refugees and asylum seekers aims to 'accommodate' 400 detainees when it gets built. Here there are some photos of de demo:

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Sheffield ESOL Demo Photos

21-04-2007 20:30

Protestors marched through the streets of Sheffield on 21st April 2007 to oppose the abolition of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).

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Gay Nigerian No Borders Activist Faces Imminent Removal - Urgent Support Needed

20-04-2007 21:53

Gay Nigerian activist and asylum seeker Jack Monday Ikegwu faces imminent removal to Nigeria. There is a warrant for his arrest on the basis of his sexuality. His life is in danger. Urgent support is required to stop the removal and enable his solicitors to lodge a fresh claim.

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Rally: Free Mumia Now! Speakers announced

20-04-2007 11:20

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man!
Free Mumia Now!
Mumia's life is in danger - mobilise now!

Rally, sponsored by the Partisan Defence Committee

Saturday 5 May, 1 pm
University of London Union, Room 3C&D,
Malet Street, London WC1

Abolish the racist death penalty!

Contact the PDC on 020 7281 5504 or at

partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk for more information and to help build the rally. Distribute the attached leaflet to your friends, fellow workers and organisations.

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World Music Concert, May 6th 2007

19-04-2007 21:40

World Music Concert, May 6th 2007; 4 pm to 9 pm at the YMCA, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham

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'Government policy is racist!' says UCU head

19-04-2007 10:57

Alively Tower Hamlets Save ESOL public meeting, attended by over 100 people, heard from a wide range of speakers last night. Amongst them was Paul Mackney (Joint head of UCU) who pulled no punches about the governments proposals to end free entitlement to ESOL classess from September this year.

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More and more Jews reject putting support for Israel over Palestinians

18-04-2007 22:50

It is the solidarity of which I speak that is now being unveiled in pockets across Britain, in universities, unions and most importantly in various Jewish associations. The significance of this reality cannot be over stated. As the status-quo trembles at the shattering of it’s tranquility by those it had claimed as its own even they are aware that any decisive change in Israeli policy will come from within Israel. This development though, has the effect of exfoliating the most powerful of the Israeli government’s protective veneers, the claim, having always given it an aura of moral invulnerability that they and their sponsors abroad speak for Jews everywhere. Such a mass of falsehood and arrogance has come to surround the state of Israel that even the most obvious truths, when they are stated, sound like the greatest of revelations. Here is one that should now be apparent; it is not the state of Israel that makes the Jews, but the Jews that make the state of Israel . . . though even that is but part of the story.

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Public meetings 'against detention centres' in Brighton

18-04-2007 09:24

Discussion and information about what you can do to stop the new Gatwick
detention centre being built and info about detention centres and the asylum system in the UK.

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FRFI takes part in march against NF on Tyneside

17-04-2007 21:52

On Sunday 15th April FRFI activists took part in the counter-protest against the National Front's fourth consecutive annual march through Newcastle, which they claim is to celebrate St George's Day on 23rd April, but which others have suggested is to celebrate Adolf Hitler's birthday on 20th April.

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Islamo fascism is still fascism !

15-04-2007 16:38

This is for the ones who survived the Islamic Revolution in Iran 1979 ....

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BNP in Folkestone- the details

15-04-2007 12:45

Names and some addresses of the scum BNP candidates standing in Shepway District Council (Folkestone & Hythe etc) local elections.

Just so all the anti-fascists everywhere know....

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Fear & Loathing In Teheran

15-04-2007 11:35

Do a Google search on ‘Faye Turney rape’ and over 80,000 results appear. Remarkable really, given the woman has not been raped at all and is even claiming that she was not. Such is the ravenous appetite in Britain for titillating tales of defenceless damsels and wicked Arabs, the Sun-reading British electorate doesn’t care anymore if the narrative is absolute fantasy or not, so long as the victim is a westerner and the aggressor is a Muslim.

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Is the Met assisting hate propaganda?

15-04-2007 11:16

AWAAZ - South Asia Watch, a group formed mainly by young educated British Asians, condemns what it believes to be an attempt by London's Metropolitan Police to lend authority to dubious claims being made by Hindu fundamentalist groups in Britain. "These claims mainly centre around the allegation that Muslim students on university campuses are engaging in 'aggressive conversions' or 'forcible conversions' of Hindu and Sikh girls".