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Mehdi must stay

19-11-2010 14:52

Mehdi Mirzae, 26, a national of Afghanistan and long time resident of Manchester is currently being detained in Dungavel IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK @ 03:00 hrs by Charter Flight PVT 800 on Tuesday 23rd November to Afghanistan. Please help us to fight his imminent deportation.

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Less than a week to go till the Northern March Against Racism 2010!

15-11-2010 19:28

With less than a week to go now to the march, TCAR reminds you of the urgent need to take an anti-racist message onto the streets of Newcastle.

Check out the video (and share widely!):
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQNPAcKbJ0w&feature=autofb

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Jimmy Mubenga demo tomorrow -- Press Release

11-11-2010 11:03

This Friday, 12 November 2010, exactly one month after Jimmy Mubenga's death,
the Mubenga family will march from the Angolan Embassy to the Home Office in
central London.

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Hamleys Toys migrant cleaners arrested in dawn raid

11-11-2010 01:53

Four suspected illegal immigrants were arrested yesterday during a dawn raid on the flagship Hamleys store in Regent Street, central London.

They conducted a search of all seven floors of the shop and eventually rounded up 14 suspects - in the teddy bear shop section of the store.

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Calais solidarity benefit, London 13/11/10

10-11-2010 16:42

From Afghanistan, Africa, and all over the world come people looking for a
new life in England. Stuck across the channel in Calais, they are met with
brutal repression organised by the French and British states. Police
beat, search, and arrest anyone without official "papers" ... burn tents,
smash cooking equipment, spray chemicals in bedding and water supplies.
This border kills.

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Jimmy Mubenga not forgotten in Oxford

10-11-2010 16:30

scanned version of poster seen around
Locals have flyposted all over East Oxford - from Cowley Road and Iffley Rd up to Blackbird Leys - to highlight the death of Jimmy Mubenga and its root causes.

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Further Details on Northern March Against Racism, 20 November, Newcastle

08-11-2010 20:10

Poster/flier - Please feel free to print and distribute!
Saturday 20th November will see the Northern March Against Racism 2010 take to the streets of Newcastle. The march has been called by TCAR, and is being backed by a wide range of individuals and over a dozen organisations and trade union branches (see below for details). Join us on 20 November for a powerful show of resistance to all forms of racism.

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Justice for Jimmy Mubenga Protest

08-11-2010 13:59

RIP Jimmy Mubenga

RIP Jimmy Mubenga

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UG#521 - Walling Us In and The Illusion of Separation

23-10-2010 07:21

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This week, we continue our series on separation, we look at wall building by governments to keep people separate. Is this, as we are told, to keep ordinary citizens safe from terrorism or drug smugglers? In light of the mound of evidence about false flag terror and CIA-sponsored drug smuggling, it seems rational to look for another explanation. In our second hour, Wendy Brown asks whether it could it be to keep us separate and, symbolically, divided, to symbolically perpetuate the illusion of state power? Our first hour starts with a short clip from George Draffan speaking on the introduction of passports and state use of technology to control people. It finishes with a condensed speech by Jaggi Singh on migration and the growing No One Is Illegal resistance movement.

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Southampton EDL Social/Fundraiser

22-10-2010 15:06

Southampton EDL Social/Fundraiser

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The Migrant Condition

22-10-2010 11:56

When I was recently named chairman of the Committee on Overseas Workers’ Affairs of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, I was approached by members of the press for my views on migrant labor. I remembered a speech I delivered last year at the Global Forum for Migration and Development in Athens, Greece. The thrust of the speech was that migrants’ rights have to be addressed on two fronts: ending the neoliberal policies that are responsible for creating poverty in their home countries, thus forcing them to emigrate, and demanding that they are given full rights in their host countries.

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Northern March Against Racism 2010

21-10-2010 15:14

Northern march poster
20th Novermber 2010
A March from stanhope street in Fenham through to the monumnet Newcastle where there will be a rally

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Czech Court Gives Record Sentence for Racial Crime

20-10-2010 15:17

A court in the northeastern Czech city of Ostrava Wednesday gave the country’s longest-ever sentence for a racial crime, finding four Czech neo-Nazi sympathizers guilty of setting fire to a Roma family’s house, in which a two-year-old girl suffered severe burns.

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Urgent: Okpara family due for deportation on Monday 25th October

20-10-2010 07:37

Mildred Okpara and her three young children have been refused asylum and ordered to return to Nigeria next Monday 25th October. The family are at grave risk from the Nigerian separatist group, MASSOB (the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra). Mildred's partner was abducted and murdered by this group, who also attacked her baby son. If she is forced to return to Nigeria she is convinced that she and her children will be targeted and killed by MASSOB who continue to commit atrocities in the region. She is also terrified that her father will find her and insist that his granddaughters undergo female genital mutilation, a practice which is widespread amongst the Igbo community of which the family is a member.

Please write to David Blunkett, Theresa May, Nick Clegg and Paul Scriven (details below) to prevent the family's deportation. A sample letter is provided, but please write your own if possible.

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The Angolan death on BA77 at Heathrow

19-10-2010 20:20

The paper reported that on the plane Jimmy was energetically resisting deportation. No, he was energetically resisting the imminence of protracted hunger and poverty; he was resisting an unjust economic order that skewered his country resources away from him to the benefit of western powers.

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Demonstrate against Britain's racist immigration laws Tuesday 26 October • 5-6pm

19-10-2010 19:38

Fight Britain's racist immigration laws! Close Communications House!
Tuesday 26 October • 5-6pm
outside Communications House Immigration Reporting Centre
Old Street London, EC1V 9BR
(called by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! All welcome)

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Shift Magazine - New Article online, interview with Angela Mitropoulos

19-10-2010 13:55

Interview with Angela Mitropoulos discussing No Borders politics.

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Dover detainees demand 'proper investigation' into the death of fellow detainee

18-10-2010 21:22

Jimmy Mubenga
Detainees in Dover immigration detention centre have issued a statement demanding an official investigation into the death of fellow detainee Jimmy Mubenga, who died during his forcible deportation on a British Airways flight to Angola on 12 October.

Three G4S security guards are accused of having caused his death as witnesses told how the 46-year-old man was being "heavily restrained by security guards and had complained of breathing problems before he collapsed." [1] The three men have since been questioned by police and bailed until December pending further inquires.

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Short doc on Greece and migration

17-10-2010 14:56

October 2010

It's the first time that an EU country has seen its treatment of refugees described as a humanitarian crisis by the UNHCR. This report gets to the heart of the escalating tensions in Greece.

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Jimmy Mubenga posters in South London

15-10-2010 21:20

Because of the current practical media blackout and misinformation surrounding the events aboard BA Flight 77 where Jimmy Mubenga was murdered, anti deportation activists have taken it upon themselves to inform people about these tragic and disgusting events.