UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Yarl's Wood Migrant Solidarity Noise Demo

20-03-2010 19:05

On Sunday March 14th around 40 people gathered at Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre to show solidarity with the hunger strikers. Drummers and trumpeters turned out in force to let the women inside know of the wide support for their struggle. The demonstrators also made clear their view that detention of migrants is wrong, and the imprisonment of women and children in particular highlights the perversity of border enforcement.

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International Support For Sacked UBS Cleaner

20-03-2010 00:29

Around a hundred protesters came to the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) in London on Friday evening, to call for the re-instatement of Alberto Durango, sacked in February for his union activities when he approached the contract company Lancaster over their cuts in hours for workers at UBS. London 19/03/2010
Pictures copyright (C) 2010 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved

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Nottingham ABC film night at the Sumac

18-03-2010 13:03

In partnership with No Borders, Nottingham Anarchist Black Cross will be having a film night at the Sumac on Thursday the 25th of March. We'll be showing the film "the least of these" about the lives of children in detention centers in the US.

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Justice for UBS Cleaners campaign goes international

18-03-2010 09:40

On Friday 19th March the "Justice for UBS Cleaners - Reinstate Alberto Campaign" are now staging an international day of action against UBS offices in 3 countries and 6 capital cities including Zurich and New York.

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50 face imminent deportation to Iraq

16-03-2010 22:24

More than fifty men from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to Erbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area in northern Iraq. The 50 are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. They told the detainees that they will be removed at 6pm tomorrow morning (17 March). The tickets state that they will be:

‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’.

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More protests and revolts in migrant detention centres all over Italy and Spain

15-03-2010 15:13

Europe is on fire

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Demo Against Deportation

14-03-2010 11:30

Congolese asylum seekers held a protest against forced removals in the centre of Manchester on Saturday 13th.

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CONGOLESE DEMO in Manchester

13-03-2010 18:47

Congolese Protesting against deportations, theft of mineral resources, President Kabila and Western Media silence.

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Calais - cold weather shelter shut despite 4°c at night

13-03-2010 13:57

Update from Calais Migrant Solidarity

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Two demos in solidarity to the hunger strikers in detention and report on abuse

12-03-2010 15:11

Detainee Solidarity London is calling for a demo this Saturday at Harmondsworth in solidarity with the 55 detainees on hunger strike since last week.

Yarl's Wood Migrant Solidarity are calling a demonstration at 12pm on Sunday, 14 March in solidarity with the women on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.

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Calais - effective disruption of police

11-03-2010 14:46

With a few more of us on the ground in Calais we were more effective at protecting the large Africa House squat last night

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Calais town hall banner hang

10-03-2010 17:55

SOLIDARITE AVEC LES SANS PAPIERS

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Yarl’s Wood Migrant Solidarity: Mothering Sunday Demonstration.

10-03-2010 15:06

Noise demo on Sunday 14th March, 12pm - 2pm, Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Bedford, MK41 6HL .

We are calling a demonstration in solidarity with the women on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. We join these women in their protest against the detention of migrants. We support their bravery and we oppose immigration laws that restrict the freedom of movement of those in need. All welcome!

transport contact: 07879793739, press contact: 07879972629

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Another Day in Calais

10-03-2010 14:11

On Friday a group of No Borders Activists went to Calais. We were told that Africa House had been subject to raids by the CRS every night, usually twice for the last week. This is not unusual. Migrants are arrested to have their fingerprints taken as proof that they have been in France, a so- called ‘safe country’ and then released.

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Calais Migrant Solidarity info night at the Crocus

10-03-2010 07:59

The oppression of migrants in Calais continues at the hands of the French and U.K state. A number of nottingham based activists have been down to Calais over the last year to show solidarity in the migrants struggle.

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Detainee hunger strikes and arrests in Italy

09-03-2010 23:48

Hunger strike in detention centre in Italy; people involved in the grassroots campaign against detention and racist laws are arrested on 23rd February

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Thursday 11th -- No Borders evening @ Coventry Peace House

08-03-2010 21:14

Resistance and Dignity

A second evening of film, discussion, and food.
Thursday 11 February 6pm-9pm in the Coventry Peace House
311 Stoney Stanton Rd, Coventry
All welcome.

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Demonstrate Ageinst Home office in Glasgow FESTIVAL COURT 11.30 AM

08-03-2010 17:17

Call Out for Demonstration Ageinst Home Office and its abirtory decisions that are ruining many lives in GlasgowT
hree people kill themselves in Glasgow Red Road court rather than being removed.

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UAF Protest vs EDL March – Pix-&-Vidz – 05 Mar 10

08-03-2010 08:51

Dateline: Tate Britain to the Palace of Westminster, Millbank to Abingdon Street, London, UK, 12:45-17:00 Fri 05 Mar 10 – The far-right English Defence League rallies a white male extremist mob outside Tate Britain on Millbank, to march to the Palace of Westminster on Abingdon Street, in support of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders showing his anti-Islam film Fitna in the House of Lords, at the invitation of Baroness Cox and UK Independence Party leader Lord Pearson. So Unite Against Facism called a counter-demonstration which attracted a mix of women and men from varied ethnicities to oppose the rightist ravings of the racist boot boys – only to face harassment, restriction and arrests by the rozzers.

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Asylum Seeking Playwright released from detention

07-03-2010 10:44

MULE has been following the story of community campaigner and playwright Lydia Besong since December, when she was taken into detention just days after her debut play premiered at The Zion Centre in Hulme.