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noborder/precarity thoughts from the South of Spain

24-10-2005 18:14

This weekend, Hamburg welcomes various European Mayday promoters and collectives to share their evaluations about the first Euromayday and to eventually begin to imagine the Euromayday´06.

Here is the evaluation of the collective Entránsito (Málaga), published in castilian here:

 http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/15616

english:

 http://estrecho.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16447/index.php

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2º congress of the african inmigration and the black communities

24-10-2005 13:01

2º congreso-celebración de el décimo aniversario de la a million men march, y 4 años de la conferencia de durban...

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Anti-deportation march in Cardiff

22-10-2005 14:20

Asylum protesters liven up Cardiff
Cardiff Social Forum held a successful anti-deportation demo on Sat Oct 22 aganst forced deportations to war zones and Section 9 of the 2004 Immigration Act.

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Defend Eucharia and Timeyi Campaign - PUBLIC MEETING AGAINST ALL DEPORTATIONS!

21-10-2005 23:56

The Defend Eucharia and Timeyi Campaign (DETC) will be holding a public meeting on Tuesday 8th November 2005, at 7pm in St. George's Church, on Abbey Hey Lane, Abbey Hey in Gorton. Speaking will be members of the DETC, supporters and members of other campaigns!

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No One is illegal - 29th Oct Tyneside Mobilisation

21-10-2005 10:16

Newcastle-Upon-Tyne mobilisation to the 29th Oct call-out for a Europe-wide day of action against 'fortress Europe'. All groups and individuals welcome - bring banners, bring literature, bring whistles and instruments, bring your views, ideas and experiences, or just bring yourselves!

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callout: european day of action for migrant rights 29th october.

19-10-2005 14:37

no more deaths on borders! no more walls!

a call for a europe-wide day of actions against the deaths and brutality occuring as a result of the fortress europe border regime. adapted from a call put out by the a migrants collective in malaga.

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Ugandan Hunger Striker to be deported today

18-10-2005 11:19

Charity's removal is scheduled for today 18th October. Charity's life will be in danger if she is returned to Uganda.

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Nottingham Solidarity Sisters at Sheffield No Borders Tour (part 2)

15-10-2005 21:38

Magical Mystery Tour
Part 2 of photos from the No Borders action in Sheffield today.

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Today the Solidarity Sisters (from Nottingham) went over to Sheffield to help out with the Magical Mystery tour, to spread the message of soldarity with refugees and those seeking asylum in the uk. The 'Solidarity Sisters' are a new project of the group that mobilsed the Geishas of Gaiety at the G8 summit. This new radical art collective, with Mischief Makers as its working title, have lots more planned... To get in touch, email  mischief@riseup.net

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Nottingham Solidarity Sisters at Sheffield No Borders Tour (part 1)

15-10-2005 21:27

No Borders
Today the Solidarity Sisters (from Nottingham) went over to Sheffield to help out with the Magical Mystery tour, to spread the message of soldarity with refugees and those seeking asylum in the uk. The 'Solidarity Sisters' are a new project of the group that mobilsed the Geishas of Gaiety at the G8 summit. This new radical art collective, with Mischief Makers as its working title, have lots more planned... To get in touch, email  mischief@riseup.net

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Some photos from the Magical Mystery Tour - a tourist jaunt through the city centre of Sheffield, taking in various places and buildings where magical mystery policies of exclusion are implemented through state agents or private cooperations.

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Sheffield No Borders Tour (part 2)

15-10-2005 20:59

Magical Mystery Tour
Some more photos from the No Borders action in Sheffield today.

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Sheffield No Borders Tour (part 1)

15-10-2005 20:54

No Borders
Some photos from the Magical Mystery Tour - a tourist jaunt through the city centre of Sheffield, taking in various places and buildings where magical mystery policies of exclusion are implemented through state agents or private corporations.

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Morocco: Deportations going on!

14-10-2005 22:49

People from Africa are trying to enter Spanish territory; many have been deported to the desert, battle is still going on; death of several persons has been approved. Help needed.

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Migrant testimonies: murders in Nador, deportations to Sahara desert

10-10-2005 07:35

Testimonies by subsaharian migrants about recent events at Melillia speak of 36 deaths and an indeterminate number of disappeared.

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Ceuta border-crossing: Solidarity demos in Paris

09-10-2005 20:22

On the night of the 28th about 500 subsaharian inmigrants tried to cross en masse the border between Marocco and Ceuta. 5 of them were shot by the police. See  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/09/324735.html.
Protests took place at several spanish and moroccan embassies across Europe. Here is a report from Paris:

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Birmingham Women 'rescued' by police from massage parlour to be deported

04-10-2005 17:53

Six of the 10 women 'rescued' by Birmingham police from Cuddles massage parlour last Friday, where they had been held aginst their will and forced into prostitution, are now being held in Yarl's Wood detention centre facing imminent deportation. Please make your opposition to this hypocracy and continued human rights abuse known.

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800 March in Glasgow on Saturday against deportations

02-10-2005 09:46

800 people marched in Glasgow against deportations and detentions
This report aken from BBC News Saturday 1st October 2005.
Anyone got any links to photos or reports from the participants point of view?

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London Communications House: Close this Racist Prison!

02-10-2005 00:35

London, 1 October. Noborder activists unfurled a large banner in Old Street, East London, across the front of communications house, as part of a day of action against detentions and deportations [pics] Communications House is a "reporting and enforcement centre" of the Immigration and Nationality Department, in fact a prison for asylum seekers in the heart of London [irr-report]. An activist says: "Streams of people were registering. The action wasn't the most dramatic thing, it was like a beginning of something."

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No Deportations Demo - Bolton

01-10-2005 20:14

Stop the War on Asylum Seekers
Despite the rain there was a good turn out at the demonstration against Section 9 of the Asylum and Immigration Act 2004 and in support of the Sukula family --  http://www.sukula.org/

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No Borders demo at communications house

01-10-2005 17:33

Communications House.
Refigees have to 'sign on' at immigration facility Communications House which is located at the top end of city road by the Old Street roundabout. Unlike signing on the dole refugees are regularly detained at Communications House, put in holding cells then deported. Imagine having to report to a building every week not knowing if your about to be returned to the country where you have been tortured? Very humane...

Today's demo was called to draw attention to what is happening inside the building. More to follow.

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Magical Mystery Tour

30-09-2005 19:28

Magical Mystery Tour in Glasgow
Magical Mystery Tour - 15th October - 1pm Cathedral Square - Sheffield
On Saturday, October 15th, Sheffield no-borders collective invites you to assemble at 1pm on Cathedral Square, City Centre, for an extraordinary event....
The magical mystery tour -