UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Urgent: Stop the Deportation of Abdulmajid Hassan Ismail

10-12-2008 19:05

Abdulmajid Hassan Ismail is from Darfur (and Rotherham!) He is threatened with deportation on Thursday 11th December at 16.15 from Heathrow to Khartoum. He is convinced that his life will be in great danger from the Sudanese Government if he is sent back. You can help save his life by taking 10 minutes to make a phone call or send an email on his behalf.

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Dawn Raid on Tina & 2 daughters

10-12-2008 10:55

Newcastle Upon Tyne
TCAR called an emergency demo this morning outside the government offices opposite St. James Park Metro.

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Stop the Mass Deportation of UK/Nigerian Families

10-12-2008 09:40

A number of Nigerian families/single women are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on a 'Ethnic Charter flight', flight number PVT007 (carrier unknown), from the UK @ 17:45 (airport unknown) to Dublin tomorrow Thursday, 11 December 2008. On arrival in Dublin it will pick up Irish/Nigerian families and then fly to Lagos, Nigeria.

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Letters from Bologna parts two and three have arrived

09-12-2008 23:27

The further instalments of Riseup' trip to the red city of Italy.

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Amey Noise Demo Report

08-12-2008 19:55

Angered by the rejection of the sacked migrants appeal, one of the workers and people from oxford, bristol and south wales no borders made a right racket outside Amey's Oxford HQ.

In September 2008 five Colombian cleaners working for Amey Plc at the
National Physical Laboratory were suspended for daring to criticise Amey
for putting an excessive workload onto ever fewer staff, for
unilaterally changing terms and conditions and for disrespecting
grievance procedures. The five have since been sacked.

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City of Shame: new Manchester detention centre

07-12-2008 17:55

The Home Office has re-opened the immigration detention centre at Manchester airport on Friday. In fact, Borders and Immigration minister Phil Woolas (the one with the pie in the face) was there personally to “unveil” the immigration prison. As if it was something to celebrate!

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"Shame on Ewell" Amey protest rocks Kingston University

05-12-2008 21:34

When Amey plc Chief Executive Mel Ewell went to receive an award at Kingston University, who could have imagined the scale of the response from students and staff appalled at Amey's sacking of five Latin American cleaners at the National Physical Laboratory in nearby Teddington for speaking out about health and safety, wage and staff cuts, and the trauma of an immigration raid.

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Acoustic cafe @ LARC

05-12-2008 18:08

...after Climate march

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Second attempt to remove Stephane Siewe

05-12-2008 07:26

Stephane Siewe, a Cameroon national and resident of Middlesbrough, is currently detained in Colnbrook IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 8th December on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 from London Heathrow terminal 4 @ 19:00 to Nairobi, then Kenya Airways flight KQ504 to Douala Cameroon.

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Protest against ID cards on 10th December in Cardiff

03-12-2008 19:04

On Wednesday 10th December the registration of non-EEA students and spouses for ID cards will begin in Cardiff. At 12 noon No Borders South Wales will be holding a protest outside the UK Border Agency at 31-33 Newport Road where this registration will happen.

We invite all opponents of ID cards to join us.

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 2nd December 2008

02-12-2008 18:31

Abbas Ali Babakir is not flying today, removal stayed, not sure why!!!

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Ayodeji Omotade V British Airways

02-12-2008 08:22

"What would you do if someone on your flight was distressed and crying out for help? Would you stay silent or would you speak? I spoke and BA didn't like it. This type of corporate tyranny must be challenged and stopped." Ayodeji Omotade

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Don't Deport Abbas Ali Babakir

02-12-2008 07:48

2 December 2008 - Urgent - Take Action Immediately

Campaigner to be forcibly deported to Iraq this evening

This message from International Federation of Iraqi refugees

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Full Circle Demo: From weapons to wars to refugees. Market Sq. Nottingham

01-12-2008 17:53

To highlight the link between the arms trade and refugees, Shut Down H&K and No Borders Nottingham held a demonstration on Saturday 29th November at 12:30 on Market Square in Nottingham called "FULL CIRCLE – from weapons to wars to refugees".

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Amey offices entered as campaign for sacked colombian cleaners grows

01-12-2008 14:18

More than twenty protestors entered the offices of Amey Plc in High Holborn on Friday in protest at the sacking of five Colombian cleaners and the rejection of their appeal. The protesters entered the office building to give a petition letter to an Amey representative but were blocked by security in the lobby and were told Amey did not want to see them. After the occupation Julio, one of the sacked cleaners, stayed behind to give the letter but Amey still refused to see him.

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Yorkshire Activists blockade Sheffield Border Agency Centre

01-12-2008 10:53

At 8am this morning a group of Yorkshire activists blockaded the
Sheffield Border Agency Interrogation Centre at Vulcan House using
bicycle locks and superglue to attach themselves to both entrances. The
group are there in response to the introduction of compulsory ID cards
for non-EU people on student or marriage visas. They are displaying two
banners, one reads “My identity is not your property” and the other
“Nothing to hide? Everything to fear! Defy ID!”

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Taranjit Bajaj and Hussain Ali Khairkoh need your help

01-12-2008 09:12

Stop 'Ethnic Charter Flights'

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Businessman calls for UK lockdown

30-11-2008 19:18

In a BBC interview, ready-meal millionaire Sir Gulam Noon makes several misguided and misleading comments regarding immigration to the UK and its relationship to racism. The comments are reportedly echoed in his as yet unreleased autobiography

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Stop Taranjit & Hussain being forced back to Afghanistan

30-11-2008 16:28

Taranjit Bajaj and Hussain Ali Khairkoh are two Afghani men in detention that the Home Office intends to forcibly remove to Kabul on Tuesday 2nd December on a private "Ethnic Charter flight" from an unknown airport as part of "Operation Ravel". Both men are members of religious minorities in Afghanistan that have been subject to persecution in the past. They both need your help. Please take action as soon as you can to help them.

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Solidarity at Campsfield

30-11-2008 12:47

On Saturday 29th November 2008, over a 100 protestors were on the gates of Campsfield IRC to show solidarity with all those behind the wire