UK Indymedia - UK Migration Newswire Archive

Anti-Deportation Campaign ‘Keep Elijah Safe’ in South Wales

29-06-2012 10:21

New group Cardiff Migrant Solidarity have set up an anti-deportation campaign for Chijioke Elijah, A Nigerian Activist who was arrested in Bridgend on Tuesday 26th June. Chijioke Elijah is currently being detained at Colnbrook IRC and has been given removal directions for the 5th July charter flight that is due to land in several African countries.

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Direct actions during the NB camp in Stockholm

27-06-2012 13:32

What was done in Stockholm...

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UNITY Gathering Glasgow Saturday 30th June

27-06-2012 12:09

Over the last few years Unity has been getting bigger and bigger, doing more to help asylum seekers in Glasgow and more people are volunteering for it.
So Unity is changing – We want more people to be involved in helping run Unity!

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Calais: Olympic Eviction of Migrant Squats

25-06-2012 14:38

The lead up to the Olympics has seen a rapid increase of police brutality against migrant communities in Calais and their supporters. Calais is an 'Olympic village' during the Games and in preparation the authorities have begun cleaning up the streets to make Calais 'migrant free'.

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FCUKBA: a month of immigration repression and resistance

23-06-2012 00:41

A month in immigration & control & resistance in the UK, 22nd May - 22nd June

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Mini report from my last vist to Calais

22-06-2012 19:33

Repression is worst than I have ever seen, I reckon they are really trying to clear Calais of its migrants before the Olympics.

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Cardiff: Extradition - Film Screening

22-06-2012 19:04

Wales premiere of "Extradition", a powerful new documentary film. The event will include a Q & A with Hamja Ahsan (Talhas Brother) reading Talha's new collection of prison poetry.

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Recent humiliation of Rajapaksa brings out new info dating to Dec 2010

14-06-2012 10:35

In faraway Sri Lanka, which is never faraway for the political manipulations through the Oxford University using the Oxford Union, amidst contradictory accounts, an email from James Kingston, then president of the Oxford Union dating back to sometime after december 2010 is revealed.
Despite credible allegations that the PR outfit Bell Pottinger organised the whole event, James Kingston comes up with a different version and stands 'by my invitation to the President, and had looked forward to his speech with great excitement'. James Kingston also seems to assert that no one else holds power in the Oxford Union while claiming ownership for the decision to pull the plug on the 'largest demonstration seen in the history of Oxford'

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Australia jails duped Indonesian children with adults for “people smuggling”

12-06-2012 02:28

Almost all Australians have no sympathy for those they perceive as people smugglers. I do not blame Australians for that because they don’t know the real story about why they end up in Australian waters. I believe Australians know only what journalists tell them through the media.
The real story of the people who crew the boats is that they are lied to by the Mr Bigs, the organisers, who have little sense of responsibility towards them.

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Did Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons want to gas racial minorities in the '70s?

11-06-2012 17:04

A now available on DVD "World in Action" documentary, reveals that when BNP MEP's Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons were National Front leaders in the 1970's, their party had privately decided to gas Britain's racial minorities at concentration camps whose future locations had already been chosen.

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naming & shaming Barnardo's

09-06-2012 19:39

Barnardo's has built up a carefully constructed image of gentle benevolence and charitable goodness, as portrayed on their website. In their list of "What we do", they fail to mention their complicity in running a detention centre for children and families, something we felt should be drawn to the public's attention.

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Welcome to Britain: a young Afghan's experience

08-06-2012 17:47

What follows is the telephone transcript of a conversation I just had with a teenage detainee awaiting deportation on the next charter flight to Afghanistan (11th June). It is a typical story of one of the many Afghan youngsters put on the fortnightly charters.

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Israel: “this country belongs to us, to the white man”

07-06-2012 19:00

Recent anti-immigrant racist extemism in Israel only serves to demonstrate that a strictly jewish state will never exist in peace.

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Deportation of Tamil refugees stopped with spontaneous blockade

03-06-2012 11:38

No lock-ons, tripods or superglue...just bodies. A spontaneous sit-down protest in front of an airport-bound deportation coach helped gain time for a last ditch legal challenge, which cancelled the enforced removal of about 40 ‘failed’ Tamil asylum-seekers.

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Demo to support hungerstrikers in Oxford town centre

01-06-2012 19:47

A lively demo took place in Oxford today to support the group of detainees in Campsfield who are currently on hungerstrike.

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Campsfield hunger strikers refused visitors

30-05-2012 22:14

13 men from Darfur region of Sudan have been on hunger strike for 6 days at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre in Kidlington, near Oxford.

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Home Ofice In Glasgow Has Been Dawn Raided!

29-05-2012 08:59

More than a douzen people are currently outside the UKBA offices in Glasgow supporting three people locked on to prevent dawn raids on local families.

The protest and lock-ons have survived 4 hours so far but cutting teams have just begun work.

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Detainees on hunger strike in Campsfield

28-05-2012 13:38

According to contacts several people are on hunger strike inside Campsfield migration prison in protest against their imprisonment.

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Barnados picketed in Oxford

25-05-2012 21:12

A group of protesters visited the Barnados shop on Cowley Rd in Oxford last weekend to challenge them about the charity's involvement in locking up children and families.

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Activists disrupt Mayoral ceremony in Oxford over deportation

23-05-2012 16:49

A group of protesters unfurled a banner reading "Stop Deportations" and heckled councillors at the Election of the Lord Mayor today at the Town Hall. The action was done by a group from Oxford No Borders standing in the public gallery.