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Calais latest - defiance & resistance!

20-09-2009 20:03

Migrants resist the destruction of their camps.

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Report about No Border Lesbos

19-09-2009 21:22

How we see the No Border Camp – A reporting from autonomous participants
from different cities in Germany

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CALLOUT:Threat of eviction to 800 migrants in Pashtun Jungle, Calais,

18-09-2009 12:11

CALLOUT FOR ACTION: The biggest migrant camp is under another threat of very imminent eviction, action is needed urgently to resist eviction, observe, and aid migrants.

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No Borders camp at Lesvos

18-09-2009 10:07

At the end of August a No Borders camp was held on the Greek island of Lesvos. Last Hours has published a personal account from the event offering an insight into the racist immigration policies that the camp was called against, and the failure of the camp to achieve any meaningful improvement for those migrants trapped on the island.

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Situation in Calais escalating. Solidarity needed now!

17-09-2009 18:01

Call out to monitor and prevent mass eviction of Calais squats and jungles! Numbers on the ground are thin. Immigration Minister Besson has announced to Make this a migrant free zone by the end of next week.

Information here:  http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/
NEW INFO LINES If you are coming to Calais to show solidarity and want information call (from UK) 00 33 6 34 81 07 10 from France 06 34 81 07 10.

Bring bikes if you can. Also we need O2 sim cards (lots of them) and tents, because lots of people might be homeless by next week.

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EDL are coming to Newport

17-09-2009 12:15

The English Defence League are planning a protest in the Welsh city of Newport on the 24th October.

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Migrant camp destroyed, local French town sets up camp outside town hall

11-09-2009 10:43

Camp Besson (named after immigration minister)
Solidarity with migrants whose shelters and belongings were destroyed by riot police

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Direct aid & joining the dots

10-09-2009 22:00

We could really do with more people making the connections between war, migration and climate change, working with those most affected by all these things

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Bristol Bookfair and Co-Mutiny

10-09-2009 09:06

The Bristol anarchist bookfair 2009 sweeps into the city centre on 12 September. Bringing together local and national groups, networks, individuals and distros, the bookfair provides absolutely anything you have ever wanted to know about anarchism, and much more. It is also, this year, the opening event for the Bristol CoMutiny Convergence – details at  http://comutiny.wordpress.com/

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Mitie noise demo during Bristol Co-Mutiny

08-09-2009 12:04

We invite everybody to demonstrate noisily at the main offices of Mitie Group on Wednesday week (16th September) at 11.

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Fifth attempt to remove Constant Moussavou

07-09-2009 11:48

Constant Moussavou, a national of Congo Brazzaville, and resident of Leicester a long time activist/member of Leicester Civil Rights Movement (LCRM). Is currently detained in Campsfield House IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Wednesday 9th September on Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET701 at 21:35 to Addis Ababa then ET831 to Brazzaville Congo.

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Campaign Against Titan Airways

07-09-2009 09:27

Titan Airways removed 10 UK DR Congolese to Kinshasa on Thursday 3rd September on one of their charter aircraft leased to UKBA; the 10 were released from Kinshasa airport after interrogation by DR Congo authorities.

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A stop in hell: Pagani, a prison for migrants at the gate of Fortress Europe

04-09-2009 23:40

The Greek island of Lesvos is just a short sail from the Turkish coast – you can see Turkey from the island. Here many migrants try crossing into Europe, usually on inflatable boats. Frontex patrols the coast to prevent them from landing; those who land may be detained in one of the most appalling prisons for migrants we have ever seen or heard of.

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Refugees in Italy and throughout the EU

04-09-2009 20:43

"Refugees" by Roberto Malini
Open letter to the institutions of the United Nations and European Union from Everyone Group and representatives of the Roma people and immigrant community in Italy.

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Tactics stepping up in Calais - support needed

02-09-2009 15:35

what the cops do to the basic shelters people have
Activists getting better at frustrating police, but we can't be everywhere in Calais - more support needed...

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Lesvos: new hungerstrike of detained minors

02-09-2009 13:35

47 minors detained in Pagani are on hunger strike since yesterday 1st September.

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Demonstration Against Charter Flights

02-09-2009 13:14

Organized by UK African Communities