UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Abolish Immigration Prisons Picket- 21 March, Edinburgh

13-03-2009 23:04

No one should be imprisoned for trying to seek a better life for themselves and their families. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the circumstances under which people are held are scandalously poor, and private companies like G4S profit from human suffering.

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Activists detain Immigration Minister's

13-03-2009 20:01

Activist's from Manchester No Borders currently detaining immigration minister Phil Woolas.

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Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

13-03-2009 18:28

The Kurdish Regional Government has an agreement with the UK (and other European) Government to receive the 100's of Kurdish asylum seekers that the UK forcibly deports.
On Sunday 15th March the families of some of those people forcibly deported will demonstrate in Kurdistan to end this agreement.

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Info, film and banner making against immigration detention, Sunday 15th March

13-03-2009 12:28

Prisons for migrants are ugly, expensive, bad for people and extremely flammable. Let's find out how to stop the government from building more...

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NCADC News Service Friday 13th March 2009

13-03-2009 09:08

New Statesman: Should there be an amnesty for illegal immigrants?

Online Poll @ 09:00 Friday 13th March 2009

* 33 % are saying yes

* 67 % are saying no

Cast your vote

http://newstatesman.com/community

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Kurdish protest outside the Syrian embassy in London

12-03-2009 22:48

Kurdish refugees from across the country held a demonstration today at the Syrian embassy in London to commemorate what has come to be known as the Qamishli Uprising. Like every year, organisers had agreed with the Metropolitan Police on a designated area opposite the embassy, but were surprised to find on arrival that this had been shifted onto a street island in the middle of the busy road, which wasn't very safe, to say the least. Protesters, however, stood mostly outside the metal barriers, waving banners and placards and shouting anti-Syrian regime slogans.

Previous protests: March 2007 | March 2008 | May 2008

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The economic third world war has begun long ago already?

12-03-2009 21:40

Is Marx the first theoretician of globalization obsolete?

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Glasgow: Come and protest outside the Home Office

10-03-2009 09:52

Wednesday 11th March 12:00 pm
UKBA Public Enquiry Office
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009

10-03-2009 09:49

*************** is back in the UK and back in his community
The Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)

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French police attack on refugees affects Portsmouth children

09-03-2009 21:45

Tear gas sprayed on refugees in a truck in France has ended up harming children in Portsmouth when they played on a new slide which had been in the truck that was sprayed with the tear gas.

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Days of action against Detention Profiteer - CgMs mass email

09-03-2009 16:11

This is an invitation to take part in a mass email action TOMORROW against detention profiteer, CgMs Consulting, following on from today's successful phone blockade. CgMs are acting as planning consulants for the proposed new migrant prison near Bicester, and we want to persuade them to drop the project.

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Second attempt to remove Kadesh Desturi Swedi

09-03-2009 08:03

Kadesh Desturi Swedi a national of DR Congo a resident of Wolverhampton is currently detained in Oakington IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Friday 13th March on Ethiopean Airways flight ET701 from London Heathrow @ 21:00 to Addis Ababa and on to DR Congo.

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"Abolish All Immigration Prisons" - demo 21st March - Manchester

08-03-2009 21:32

We are calling for a demonstration against all immigration prisons and against Manchester's Pennine House in particular. At a meeting last week, local groups such as No One Is Illegal, RAPAR, Comittee to Defend Asylum Seekers, AF-Manchester and others endorsed our call.

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Days Of Action Against Detention Profiteer

08-03-2009 11:33

This is an invitation to take part in a phone blockade TOMORROW against detention profiteer, CgMs Consulting.

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Asylum and Children Public Meeting 16th March, Sheffield

06-03-2009 19:17

Monday March 16th at the Quaker Meeting House, 7pm, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW (near the Cathedral on High Street).

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Around the campaigns Friday 6th March 2009

06-03-2009 13:29

Asylum man in rooftop stand off
A Nigerian asylum seeker staged an eight-hour rooftop protest after immigration officers turned up at his family home early yesterday. Steve Umoru, 43, clambered through a skylight window and then scrambled along the roofs on Dodworth Road.
Full article: Adam Civico and Kate Pickles, The Barnsley Chronicle, Friday 06/03/09

http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/2,0000,2606.html

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No Borders activists dump jumpers on council leader

04-03-2009 00:41

On Tuesday evening, activists from Manchester No Borders interrupted a high-profile panel discussion with the leader of Manchester city council, Sir Richard Leese. They dumped 100 jumpers in front of the panellists of the event entitled ‘The Right to the City’, held in the Town Hall, in a protest against immigration detention.

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Days of Action against Detention Profiteers

03-03-2009 20:20

On Monday 9th & Tuesday 10th March, coordinated phone blockades and email actions will take place against a corporation complicit in the detention of migrants and asylum seekers.

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Uphold the Militant Tradition of International Women's Day

02-03-2009 06:35

In solidarity and with utmost joy, the International League of People's Struggle joins today the celebration of women in general and their revolutionary struggle for emancipation and liberation from imperialism, feudalism and patriarchalism. We remember and honor millions of women who trailblazed and paved the path for women's liberation movement.

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The Right to Work

28-02-2009 22:22

A few people from Manchester No Borders supported a demonstration by the new Student Action for Refugees (STAR) group at Manchester University on Friday. A large banner and some 15 people with flyers informed students of their 'Let Them Work' campaign.