UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
YMCA drops slave labour scheme for asylum seekers!
31-05-2005 16:38
The YMCA have dropped section 10 - Hooray!Just announced on Radio Merseyside
31 May 2005
http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=2711 http://www.smartgroups.com/message/readmessage.cfm?gid=1256290&messageid=2712 Story from Baghdad with 7 photos
31-05-2005 02:17
URGENT! Australian Aborigines to repossess NSW pastoral properties
29-05-2005 12:54
Moree, central NSW, 29 May - - Aborigines of the Gumilaroi Nation are about to move onto several pastoral properties in western NSW to reclaim them as Aboriginal land, says the spokesman of the Nation, Michael Anderson.Join the Virtual Sit-In against the MinuteMen
26-05-2005 21:02
"Swarm the Minuntemen" invites people from all over the world who oppose racist violence to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre action on May 27th, 28th and 29th, 2005 to engage in a virtual sit-in on the MinuteMen website during their "Unite to Fight" Summit.Chiapas: bank bars the solidarity bank accounts
26-05-2005 14:25
The bank Bilbao Vizcaya-Bancomer freezes the bank accounts of the solidarity organization ENLACE CIVIL“The bank has to protect itself from money laundering”
Motorcycle demonstration to support Kurdish hungerstriker Bahoz in Greece
26-05-2005 13:33
On Tuesday, the 24th of May, a motorcycle demonstration took place in Thessaloniki, Greece, to support the anarchist hungerstriker Bahoz in his fight for political asylum.Political asylum is nearly unknown in Greece as from 2000 to 3000 applications each year only 2-3 individual’s applications get approved.
BNP wreath arrest background
26-05-2005 11:08
better background to previous post from the mainstream - chief copper arrestsStop the YMCA using Asylum Seekers as Slave Labour
26-05-2005 10:45
Protest against the slave labour of failed asylum seekers
25-05-2005 23:21
The Home Office and YMCA are pledging that this scheme will be under section 10 of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1999.
The demonstration was small but effective. The 8 protestors stood their ground outside Millennium House (Liverpool City Council building) and were joined in solidarity by those invited to the meeting on their way in and out of the meeting and by those few who ’gate crashed’ - Councillors!
YMCA press-gangs asylum seekers into slave labour protest
25-05-2005 18:33
The human rights protesters representing asylum seekers, symbolically chained together with the initials Y.M.C.A. branded on their backs, cleaned up the residence, removing dirt and grime from various points on the outside of the building.
Campsfield demonstration Saturday 28/5
24-05-2005 08:10
Demonstration at Campsfield Detention Centre for Refugees - come and show your support to the people inside!Sheffield company illegally supports racist state
24-05-2005 00:07
Sheffield Company A4e recently won a contract with Israel which breaks international law because it involves working in the illegally occupied area of East Jerusalem. The article below explains in more detail.
You can call A4e on 0800 345 666 or contact Jenny Caven at jcaven@a4e.co.uk.
A4e Head Office, Bessemer Rd, Attercliffe, Sheffield, S9 3XN. Tel: 0114 2203040. Fax: 0114 2812929.
ANARCHIST IMMIGRANT ON HUNGER STRIKE FOR THE POLITICAL ASYLUM, GREECE
23-05-2005 20:56
POLITICAL ASYLUM TO BAHOZ NOW!HUNGER STRIKE SINCE MAY 17
SOLIDARITY TO REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS
Pix of 'Free Palestine' demonstration, Sat 22 May 05 - Set 1 of 2
23-05-2005 13:35
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Pix of 'Free Palestine' demonstration, Sat 22 May 05 - Set 2 of 2
23-05-2005 13:16
For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.
Muslims should show some respect to others' religions
20-05-2005 19:17
The desecration of religious texts and symbols and intolerance of varying religious viewpoints and beliefs have been issues of some controversy inside Saudi Arabia. Ruled by a Wahhabi theocracy, the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia have made it difficult for Christians, Jews, Hindus and others, as well as dissenting sects of Islam, to visibly coexist inside the kingdom.
