UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
Families in Immigration Detention July 2007
04-09-2007 14:07
Freedom of Information Act 2000. You asked:
In July 2007 how many families were in Immigration Detention in
Dungavel, Tinsley House and Yarl's Wood? How many adults and how many
children?
Israel allowed into UK for football, Palestine not!
04-09-2007 11:30
Israel are coming to play England in a friendly (apparently in the world of football, Isael is in Europe), weeks after the Palestinian youth team were denied entry to the UK...anyone want to organise protests?BNP supporters disrupt school with demo and picket at gates
04-09-2007 01:27
BNP demo at SunnydaleTrial in Agrigento: No to the criminalisation of solidarity
03-09-2007 11:35
Since August 22, 2007, seven Tunisian fishermen have been on trial in Agrigento (Sicily), accused of “assisting illegal immigration”. They risk up to 15 years imprisonment. Prosecuted as human traffickers, what they did was in fact just their basic duty of solidarity: on August 8, near the island of Lampedusa, they picked up 44 passengers from a boat in distress at sea and brought them to the harbour.Without their intervention the shipwrecked people - including two pregnant women and two children - would propably have suffered the same fate as the thousands of migrants and refugees who in the last years have drowned while trying to reach the European coasts.
Porter: Kill More Iraqis or Pay $9 per Gallon
01-09-2007 22:28
No doubt, for a large number of Americans, it is a good enough excuse: “Gasoline prices could rise to about $9 per gallon if the United States withdraws troops from Iraq prematurely, Rep. Jon Porter said he was told on a trip to Iraq that ended this week,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. “To a person, they said there would be genocide, gas prices in the U.S. would rise to eight or nine dollars a gallon, al-Qaida would continue its expansion, and Iran would take over that portion of the world if we leave,” said the Nevada Congress critter.pretty simple when its spelled out in blue and red
01-09-2007 18:06
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the world’s major sources of instability. Americans are directly connected to this conflict, and increasingly imperiled by its devastation.It is the goal of If Americans Knew to provide full and accurate information on this critical issue, and in our power – and duty – to bring a resolution.
Below are charts of nine little-known statistics.
Please click on any statistic for the source and more information.
go the website www.ifamericansknew.org to view sources
israel admits murdering 3 children in gaza
01-09-2007 10:03
follow the link below to read how an israeli military investigation has found that the 3 childrenn were just playing hide and seek and had nothing to do with any rocket launcher as they first claimed
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=25076
no borders 'Freedom of Movement' workshop- Cardiff, 1/9/07
31-08-2007 18:36
An afternoon of workshops and discussion about the history of Britain's immigration laws with practical tools for thinking, acting and living in a world without bordersIsraeli fans cursing Prophet Muhammad
31-08-2007 15:00
A group of fans who were on the plane with the team were caught on video singing songs against Muhammad and Muslims.The ban on the Quran of Mr Wilders/Wardeclaration on human rights
30-08-2007 12:20
With his recent hateprovoking remarks, in which he pleaded in favour of a ban on the Quran and also made a comparison between this Holy Book and ''Mein Kampf', the biography of Adolf Hitler, The Dutch right-wing politician G Wilders has declared war on the fundamental human rights, which are the heart of real civilisationTinsley House demo - London mobilising meeting, Monday
29-08-2007 19:52
On Sat 22nd Sept No Borders has called for a transnational day of action and is calling a demo at Tinsley "House" immigration detention centre at Gatwick. The meeting on Monday, from 6.30pm at the T&G in Holborn, is to discuss mobilising people in London for this demo.War On Muslims - Racist Abuse at HMP Frankland
29-08-2007 15:05
A London based group supporting Guantanamo Bay torture camp internees has discovered serious racist abuse being carried out inside at least one UK prison. This life-threatening violence is directed against Muslims whom many believe have been wrongfully imprisoned to help justify the illegal 'War on Terror' and set up by the Metropolitan Police and MI6. There has be no coverage of these very serious racist incidents in any of the UKs National Press and no prosecution of the racists.Beatrice sent back from Cameroon because in such a bad state
29-08-2007 09:52
The latest news I have from Beatrice is that she was deported, but arrived to Cameroon in such a bad state her country won't take her and sent her back to the UK. A friend in Cameroon contacted one of her supporters in the UK. Beatrice is expected to arrive in London today via Paris. I'll post updates when I can, at the moment nobody has been able to communicate with her or knows exactely where or how she is.CRITICAL CASH! No Border Camp Benefit Gig
27-08-2007 10:03
This Friday at the RampART Social Centre, LondonRacist Israel Now Refuses Asylum To Refugees
27-08-2007 02:56
By Ellen Knickmeyer
According to the Washington Post, Israel has closed its door to asylum-seekers from Sudan's Darfur region and from other African countries - because they are non-Jewish.
Help needed: Beatrice taken from hospital to be deported, after suicide bid
25-08-2007 12:45
Our very dear friend and fellow volunteer at Asylum Link Merseyside is again facing deportation, this time set for Tuesday 28th August at 6:40am.
The first attempt to remove Beatrice was cancelled as she made several attempts to kill herself out of fear of her fate her in Cameroon.
Self-harm in immigration detention June 2007
24-08-2007 21:15
Figures obtained by he National Coalition of Anti Deportation Campaigns under the Freedom of Information Act.Detainees, visitors and campaigners believe the real numbers may be even higher.
Keep Benoit and his brother together...urgent help needed
24-08-2007 20:27
from his 12 year old brother.
Judge halts DR Congo deportations
23-08-2007 14:46
A High Court judge has order a halt to deportations of failed asylum seekers to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
