UK Migration Newswire Archive
no one is illegal uk - manifesto
15-10-2003 00:14
A new no one is illegal group has formed in the uk, in addition to already existing, more fluid noborder groups and lists. Here is their manifesto from September 03:Walk for the orphans of Iraq
08-10-2003 14:21
Susan Karim fled Saddam's Iraq and now she lives in Britain. She will be walking from Dundee to Edinburgh to raise money Iraqi orphans.Starting at the Tay Bridge, Saturday 18th October.
Finishing at the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Wednesday 29th October.
Musings from inside the Asylum System
30-09-2003 14:56
Most people are aware of the fairly scandalous nature of the UK's attitude to refugees. But in the last few weeks, working at a refugee support centre, I found my general disapproval of the asylum system intensify into absolute horror at the reality of the effects of our policies and the appaling mentality revealed behind them.10 Lindholme Detainees Still Free
30-09-2003 08:11
10 of the 20 migrants who escaped from Lindholme Prison near Doncaster are still free this morning. These men have been imprisioned without committing any crime and have had their basic human rights denied by the immigration services.We call on all good people to try and right the wrong of their imprisionment and to do what they can to help these men stay free.
Samba protest at Wormwood Scrubbs
17-09-2003 18:03
pics and report'
Fuerth, Germany, 11-14.9. 2003, days of action against deportation camps
11-09-2003 22:29
People are in rebellion: in spring 2002 at the internment camp in Woomera/Australien; in March 2002 at the deportation prison in Bologna; End of 2002 at the Eurotunnel-camp in Sangatte/France; in Febuary 2003 in the deportation prison Haslar/England; January - April 2003 in the deportation prison Grünau/Berlin,; in May 2003 in Nomansland-camp between the Iraq / Jordan border; against fences, walls and borders of deportation prisons, internment camps, deportation camps, “Ausreisezentren”, refugee camps.Camps are an indispensable part of the separation policy of industrial countries. Separation from those who come, because the living conditions in their countries are decisively regulated by the interests of rich states. "We are here, because you destroy our countries", as refugees put it.
"Ausreisezentrum" is no term of the tourism industry. What sounds like palm beach and vacation trip is another link in the long chain of systematic exclusion and isolation of refugees and migrants in Germany. Cry from Halberstadt "Deportation camps are camps which illegalise people. As a supplementation to the socalled accumulative accomodations and deportation prisons deportation camps make perfect the system of determent, controll and deportation opposite to refugees.
Camps are an expression of the worldwide migration regime within the neoliberal globalisation. Therefore there is not only a temporal connection between the campaign against WTO
and the actiondays against the camp in Fuerth.
The neoliberal globalisation has serious effects on the majority of mankind: - cutback of hard earned rights, - social dismantling in the curse of global "adaption" GATS
Results of the globalised competition are: The strong prevail over the weak. What is called globalisation has nothing to do with the real globalisation in terms of ?one world?. With means of national, nationalistic arrogance and mobilisation big parts of mankind are excluded of the alleged blessings of civilisation. In many parts of the world (thus the loser?s side) globalised competition results in pauperisation, incontent, oppression, war, ?warlordisation?, barbarianism.
Results are: Billions of people are on the run or migrant to where they hope to find better living conditions.
source: Imc Germany:
http://de.indymedia.org/2003/09/61044.shtml
Arms designers shut down
09-09-2003 10:00
On Thursday 4th September military systems designers ESDU International shut down early before a demo by Hackney No Borders. Another small success in the run-up to shutting down DSEi.Dungavel Demonstration 6.8.03
08-09-2003 13:18
Iranian Refugee Sets Fire to Himself
05-09-2003 23:00
Israfil Shiri has died after five days of terrible suffering in Wythenshawe Hospital Burns Unit Manchester.On Thursday 27th August Israfil Shiri, a destitute young Iranian man poured petrol over his body and set fire to himself in the offices of Refugee Action in Manchester. He suffered burns to 80% of his body. He had told his friends he would do it to prove that this government cares more about animals than people fleeing torture and persecution.
"If they cut off all my benefits, prevent me from working and make me homeless, I too will commit suicide". These were the words of another Iranian asylum seeker who, along with 30 other people, attended a meeting on Monday to discuss last Thursday's tragedy and how we can prevent it from happening again.
Israfil Shiri, 30, who has been on life support at Wythenshawe Hospital Burns Unit following the suicide attempt at the Manchester offices of Refugee Action last week, died early on the morning of the third September.
Another blow for Asylum Seekers
03-09-2003 09:05
Once again the "Left" Labour government make Maggie look like Marx, how can we let them get away with it?WDM Director speaking in Oxford
01-09-2003 17:04
Barry Coates, Director of the World Development Movement (www.wdm.org.uk), will be speaking at a free public meeting in the Oxford Town Hall at 7pm, on Thursday 4th September.Refugee-led protests against new asylum laws - NEED SUPPORT NOW
27-08-2003 10:15
Join this protest against Section 55 called by the 35 asylum seekers camped outside Refugee Council [London] since 8 August. This growing movement started with Eritrean women refusing being made destitute by Section 55 and forcibly dispersed away from caring and support networks. Now another group of asylum seekers have taken the lead in refusing a racist two-tier system that denies women, children and men asylum seekers basic benefits, health care and other crucial resources.UK Government Kicks Torture Victims Onto the Streets
18-08-2003 09:15
Defend the defenceless - protest the petty bureaucrats' scapegoating of refugees - and remember that it was the penpushers who oiled the wheels of the Nazism.Tul-Chasg air Saddam Hussein mu dheireadh
17-08-2003 11:25
An tròth mu dheireadh a bha cogadh sa Chamas, chuir mise 'na aghaidh, mar a rinn mòran de na bha ag amharc orra fhèin mar dhaoine 'adhartach' (a bhith a' gabhail coingheall den fhacal a bhios a' dol air an sgiath chlì).Yarl's Wood Trial ends - 7 acquittals
15-08-2003 16:47
Yarl's Wood Trial ends - 7 acquittals
nacad release
Video - Close Campsfield
14-08-2003 12:18
There are 200 detainees in Campsfield House. Most are political refugees fleeing danger, torture and even death from countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Turkey, India and Zaire. They are held without charge, without time limit, without proper reasons given, and without proper access to legal representation. Amnesty International report that these are breaches of internationally recognised human rights. The former Chief Inspector of HM Inspectorate of Prisons (Judge Stephen Tumim) and The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture have condemned conditions at Campsfield House.
Boris Lidovski Must Stay - campaign public meeting
12-08-2003 21:59
Cambridge postal worker Boris Lidovski is threatened with deportationto Russia despite real fears for his safety if he returns.
ESCAPE FROM OAKINGTON!
12-08-2003 16:08
Twelve asylum seekers escaped from the government's flagship refugee centre after scaling the perimeter fence