UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

A demonstration in support of Amdani Juma Saturday 31st May @ 12.30

31-05-2008 07:50

A demonstration in support of Amdani Juma has been called for tomorrow, Saturday 31st May @ 12.30 in the Market Square.

Solidarity week against repression in France at June, 9-16

31-05-2008 06:17

Ivan, Bruno and Damien got arrested on January 19, 2008 on the way to the demonstration against the detention centre of Vincennes (near Paris). They were carrying home made smoke powder and bent nails (to slash tyres). At the police station, they refused the finger print identification and DNA taking. Ivan and Bruno are jailed, Damien is under judiciary control.

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Hicham Yezza: Removal Directions Cancelled

31-05-2008 00:14

Supporters were pleased to hear today that Hicham Yezza won't be deported on Sunday. This doesn't mean the struggle is over, far from it, but he is no longer at risk of imminent removal.

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24-hour Stop Deporting Iraqis "tent city" in Parliament Square

30-05-2008 23:06

Bring a tent and join us on 21/22 June to demand an immediate end to all forcible returns to Iraq, and the restoration of benefits, housing and the right to work for all rejected Iraqi asylum seekers.

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Northern Conference Against Racism 21st June 2008 Newcastle

30-05-2008 23:01

On Saturday 21st June TCAR will be hosting a Northern Conference Against Racism in Newcastle. All anti-racists are urged to attend. See attached flier for details. Entry is free to asylum seekers and unwaged. For those on a wage tickets are £3, and can be purchased in advance from www.tynesidecarn.co.uk. Please buy your tickets in advance if you can, as this will help to meet the costs of childcare, which can be booked for free.

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Sarkozy's migrant proposals,Shengen biometrics: French EU presidency & camps

30-05-2008 21:54

Yesterday the minister for EU affairs of the Spanish state revealed that they were sent last January, a 5 page proposal document by Sarkozy's presidency of France outlining his objectives for new anti-migrant laws to be implemented during the forthcoming French presidency of the EU. The substance of this confidential document has pretty much been explained by me in the last weeks in an article of the quirky humorous "Q&A" series. We may now put the recent anti-migrant laws and Romani purge of Berlusconi in its proper context that which I indicated in the "Q&A". Sarkozy wants biometric Shengen Information System 2, a "integration contract" for migrants and obligatory language lessons.

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Anti-racism Public meeting 31 May 2008, 1pm

30-05-2008 16:17

On Saturday 31 May 2008, from 1pm, there will be Public meeting at the Friends Meeting House (Quakers House, opposite the central Library), 6 Mount Street, Manchester.

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Amdani detained, Jane-Mary detained yesterday

30-05-2008 10:10

The last two days have seen the detention of Jane-Mary Mutetsi and today Amdani Juma. Please circulate this information to those who can offer support.

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Press release: Nottingham University demonstration

29-05-2008 17:31

Press release from the campaign to stop the deportation of Hicham Yezza, about the demonstration in defence of academic freedom and in support of his campaign.

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Big Macs or Starbucks Frappuccino’s the choice must be bewildering for asylum se

29-05-2008 16:34

Big Macs or Starbucks Frappuccino’s the choice must be bewildering for asylum seekers

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For academic freedom and against deportation

28-05-2008 19:47

On Wednesday 28 May, hundreds of students and academics came together at the University of Nottingham to protests in defence of academic freedom and against the imminent deportation of university community member Hicham Yezza.

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Exodus Shorts Refugee Film Festival, June 16–22 2008

28-05-2008 14:57

Films telling powerful stories of those who have fled across continents and made new lives for themselves will be shown at the Exodus Shorts Refugee Film Festival in Manchester and Liverpool.

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University of Nottingham Graduate and Employee Facing Imminent Deportation Without Hearing

26-05-2008 17:39

Hicham Yezza, a popular and active member of the academic community at the University of Nottingham, was recently arrested along with another student. After six days of detention, both were released without charge [1]. Hicham was re-arrested on immigration grounds. He now faces imminent deportation to Algeria wihtout due process [2]. There is widespread concern at the proposed, imminent deportation.

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Calling all Activists, Artists and Astronauts for Day of Action against G8

26-05-2008 17:09

Do you Screenprint? Make Music? Street Art? Perform? Do you like to bake Cookies?
The 5th July 2008 will be your chance to take to the streets and be part of a creative intervention in Croydon. Come together with lots of other artists, activists and alternative astronauts, to create a disturbance in the normal structure of time and space and show your support for the protests against the G8 in Japan.

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Help Europe:Silvio Berlusconi is taking over the European mediamarket!

26-05-2008 09:48

In the media I read that Berlusconi’s company mediaset mid 2007 has taken over Endemol: one of the biggest mediaconcerns on the world market…
Do we have to worry in Europe?

If you want to know WHAT won the Italian elections and who controls OUR media.
Read and shiver…

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Italian Crystal nights, first the gypsies...Is this Europe 1938?

26-05-2008 09:44

A few nights of raids with baseball bats and molotov cocktails have done the job…
Why didn`t we see the sensational images of burning gypsy camps, terrified and crying children and desperate people in our European press?

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'Panzer Operation': Spanish Army weapons in the hands of the extreme right gangs

25-05-2008 11:53

The Crisis and the impunity of the neonazi armed gangs at Valencia Region, Spain

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Notts Uni detainee innocent but still facing deportation

24-05-2008 16:41

Hicham Yezza, a popular, respected and valued former PhD student and current employee of the University of Nottingham faces deportation to Algeria on Sunday 1st June. This follows his unjust arrest under the Terrorism Act 2000 on Wednesday 14th May alongside Rizwaan Sabir and their release without charge six days later.

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Anti-racism Public meeting - 31 May 2008, 1.00pm

23-05-2008 16:41

What is the link between defending asylum seekers and the struggle against racism? Should the asylum issue be a charitable or political issue? Come and hear the experiences of a speaker from TCAR in the north east.

Help us build for the TCAR regional northern anti-racist conference in Newcastle on 21 June 2008.

Contact us if you want to speak. All speakers welcome. Everyone is welcome.

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Demo tomorrow @ Italian Consulate in defence of Roma and migrants

22-05-2008 14:15

Between the 14th and 15thof May, Roma camps in the Napoli area had to be evacuated and one camp was burned to the ground by mobs with links with the Camorra (Napoli's equivalent of Mafia). Police did not even try to stop the violence but helped the Roma evacuate. Mobs were threatening to lynch them.
In the same week police made nearly 400 arrests of suspected 'illegal' immigrants in raids across the country.