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Solidarity demo at the deadly Colnbrook immigration prison

05-08-2011 17:45

protesters arrive at Colnbrook (right) and Harmondsworth (left) with noise
Anti-detention campaigners today held a small, but noisy, protest at Colnbrook immigration prison, near Heathrow airport, where two migrant prisoners apparently killed themselves in less than a month. With a megaphone, whistles, a vuvuzela and pots and pans, they made themselves heard to the migrants locked up in Colnbrook, as well as in the adjacent Harmondsworth. Detainees shouted back 'freedom, freedom' and other angry, desperate slogans.

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UK Detention estate: 3 dead in one month, the tip of the iceberg

03-08-2011 13:14

Colnbrook IRC
The three deaths in detention bring to the fore the continued suffering of migrants in Europe

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Press Release – Campaign to Close Campsfield - Suicide in Campsfield House

03-08-2011 11:29

A man has been reported dead at Campsfield House. He was found hanging in the toilets, according to a Guardian article today. We will mark this event by a vigil in Carfax, Oxford with flowers and placards, today, Wednesday 3rd August, at 6pm.

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Second death in 3 days in UK migration prisons

03-08-2011 10:09

Another man died in a UK migration prison yesterday, Tuesday 2 August. According to fellow prisoners at Campsfield IRC he killed himself rather than be deported. This follows the death at the weekend in Colnbrook IRC. How many more must die?

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Death in London detention centre at weekend

02-08-2011 19:56

Second death in a month at a London detention centre brings detention back into the spotlight.

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Two escape from Morton Hall migration prison

31-07-2011 09:20

Two men successfully escaped last Thursday from Morton Hall IRC in Lincolnshire. Report from local newspaper. Freedom!

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Namaste update & call for support - help asylum seekers

28-07-2011 22:46

Namaste encourages and supports local volunteers to offer a spare room to an asylum seeker who would otherwise be destitute. People may choose to host a guest for a few weeks, or a few months, or in some cases longer. Throughout, Namaste offers support to both the host and the guest.

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No Borders Demonstration in Haywards Heath, Sat 30 July

24-07-2011 13:23

Croydon NoBorders is calling for a demo in Haywards Heath on Saturday 30th July to protest against a new detention centre for children and families which is due to open in late summer at nearby Pease Pottage.

Please join us on Saturday 30th July with banners, placards and instrument to call for an end to detention and deportation. Gather at Muster Green park in Haywards Heath at 1pm.

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Calais: "Welcome to Fortress Europe" action at City Europe

23-07-2011 18:38

No Borders activists stage a mock FORTRESS EUROPE CONTROL ZONE outside City Europe mall opposite Coquelles detention centre in Calais.

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Right-wing blogs admit Anders Behring Breivik is linked to EDL

23-07-2011 11:26

Right-wing blogs admit Oslo killer Anders Behring Breivik is linked to EDL

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14 Juillet in Calais

15-07-2011 09:45

Yesterday, Bastille Day, a banner was hung along the main parade route reading "The Bastille has fallen, but not Fortress Europe." And every evening Calais No Borders are holding feasts of free food and music for migrants and all-comers in an open space near the town hall.

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Calais: three No Borders comrades acquitted

13-07-2011 12:14

Yesterday three of Calais No Borders walked away free from the court in Boulogne, after the judge found no evidence against them on charges of "rebellion" and "illegal occupation" connected with resistance to a police raid on Africa House on 21 April.

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Housing Contract Group 4 Info

11-07-2011 10:50

This is the info we gathered during a housing consultation in Cardiff about Group 4 running UKBA housing. This is for general use so that people can start campaigning etc

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Follow the Money: Repression, Collectivization and Progress in Medellín, Colombi

11-07-2011 10:22

The focus of development discourse on technical solutions to rural development draws attention away from the real issue holding back small farmers from improving ther livlihoods: denial of their basic human rights highlighted by the murder of land activist Ana Fabricia Cordoba last month. This represents a dated tradition of displacing our problems to the 'third world' that must be dropped by politicians, academia, the press and me and you.

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Deaths from Self-Harm in immigration detention, murder, undetermined

09-07-2011 12:14

Remember the dead - Justice for the Living - End Immigration Detention Now

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Muhammed Shuket born 1964 - died in Colnbrook IRC 2nd July 2011

09-07-2011 12:06

Another death in Immigration Detention. At the moment there are no hard facts, not even the cause of death of Muhammed Shuket and the Home Office after the 63 word statement below have *shut up shop, until after the inquest.

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Social cleansing in Calais: Massive crackdown following Home Sec's visit

06-07-2011 20:47

Food distro raid seen through the gate
The struggle for existence for migrants in Calais has intensified after the British Home Secretary came and poked her nose in

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G4S housing consultation disrupted

05-07-2011 12:39

Activists in Cardiff disrupt a G4S consultation aimed at G4S running migrant and asylum seeker accommodation. And a call out for further action.

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No Borders blockade Calais detention centre

04-07-2011 18:31

On Saturday around 30 No Borders activists blockaded the detention centre and border police complex at Coquelles, a few miles from Calais.

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Dale Farm eviction notice served -- Camp Constant to be set up from Sat. Aug 27

04-07-2011 16:39

Today, some 90 families at Dale Farm, the UK's largest Traveller community, were hand-delivered a final notice of eviction giving families until midnight on August 31 to abandon their homes, or face their entire community being bulldozed. The central government and Basildon Council have set aside over £18m for the eviction battle that could last three weeks. It will be the biggest clearance of its kind involving the ploughing up of 54 separate plots created on a former scrap-yard purchased by the Travellers ten years ago.