UK Migration Newswire Archive
Skynews poll runs against asylum seekers - vote now
01-02-2006 19:34
Vote in Skynews poll which is currently running strongly against allowing any benefits for failed asylum seekers. Please make your voice heard and act today - vote no to protect asylum seekers from being treated like criminals.Home Office calls for “Voluntary Deportation” of Progressive Café Founder
01-02-2006 14:34
Vigil for Bereket Yohannes tomorrow, Sunday @ 12.00 outside Harmondsworth
28-01-2006 13:50
Directions to Harmondsworth:By Bus:
From Heathrow: The Central Bus station is opposite the tube and rail stations for Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 and 3. Take bus number U3 and "get off" at the first stop as it turns into Hatch Lane. Then walk back to the main road and turn right and continue past the Sheraton Hotel, which is next door to the Detention Centre. It is a 10-minute walk from the bus stop.
The Heathrow Hopper operates from Heathrow Terminals to the Sheraton Hotel, which is next door to the Detention Centre. The cost is £3.00, which is higher than the ordinary buses.
From Hounslow: Take the 81 Bus from Hounslow West and get off at the bus stop at the back of McDonalds. Then walk though the alley way to the main road and cross the road. IAA Harmondsworth is directly in front of you. It is a 5 minutes walk from the bus stop.
By Road:
From the M25 exit at junction 14, onto the A3113 (Airport Way). Follow this road till you reach a roundabout and turn left onto the A3004 (Stanwell Moor Road). At the next roundabout, drive straight ahead. At the next junction turn right into Colnbrook-By-Pass. IAA Harmondsworth is the first on the left. >From the M4, exit at Junction 5, onto the A4 heading towards Heathrow Terminals 1, 2 and 3. A quarter of a mile past the junction of the A3044 turn left. IAA Harmondsworth is on your left hand side.
IOM Bribing Asylum Seekers to Return Home
28-01-2006 02:42
Harmondsworth Support Network in Action
26-01-2006 23:41
Over the last few days, I got a few emails about the events in Harmondsworth. You probably know the facts - Bereket Yohannes from Eritrea was found hanged at Harmondsworth detention center, the other detainees were very distressed, had a meeting the next day, refused to take food, wrote a statement. Now many of them are put in solitary confinement or sent to other detention centers as "troublemakers".
Harmondsworth Detainees punished over protest at suicide
26-01-2006 15:30
Not long after the suicide of Bereket Yohannes at Harmondsworth last Thursday, detainees met amongst themselves to discuss the death. They had a meeting with management to discuss their concerns over the death and in a 'Peaceful protest' issued a public statement below. Since then UK Detention Services and the Home Office have acted quickly to punish those who dared to protest.Fighting the Asylum & Immigration Acts Conference
24-01-2006 20:03
Saturday January 28th Manchester 11-5pmBroken Borders, International Smuggling
24-01-2006 01:58
The disintegration of "global order" depicted here put a smile on my face. This being a Newsweek article, of course it has the standard Establishment spin on it, so please take with a grain of salt...Vigil in memory of Bereket Yohannes
24-01-2006 01:22
A vigil in memory of Bereket Yohannes will be held at 12 noon this coming Sunday 29th January outside Harmondsworth detention centre, on the A4 on the north edge of Heathrow Airport, west London.Bereket Yohannes, a 26 year-old-man from Eritrea, was found hanged in the showers in Hamondsworth Immigration Removal Centre at around 5.25 last Thursday the 19th January 2006.
Police stops March on French embassy
22-01-2006 21:47
http://no-vox.org called for the demostration to demand from the French governement papers for all sans-papiers.
WSF condemns EU Anti-Immigration Policies
22-01-2006 11:02
Suicide in Harmondsworth immigration detention centre
21-01-2006 11:33
Beretek Yohannes, a 26 yers old man from Sudan, was found hanged in the showers Thursday the 19th of January.Tackling Racism Together
19-01-2006 14:23
Friday 27th January, 9.30-4pm Kirkby Unemployed Centre. There will be a 1 day conference to look at how trade unions together with the local community can unite to combat racism.Dallas Court Demo, Friday 27th January 2006
18-01-2006 23:21
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! is calling a demonstration/protest for the 27 January 2006 at 10 am outside Dallas Court, Immigration Reception Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays. This is in support of Eucharia Jakpa and her four year old son Timeyi who have been asked to report 'to prepare their travel documents'. it is possible that they will be seized and maybe later forcibly deported against their will if this happens.Market place squatters promise violent resistance
17-01-2006 02:12
Squatters pledge to resist by any means necessary..An applicant of political asylum, political prisoner in France!
16-01-2006 03:48
Brighton group to march on Grosvenor Square
14-01-2006 17:31
New Home Office Scheme Against Asylum Seekers
13-01-2006 16:45
The Home Office has cynically introduced a new scheme in an attempt to remove asylum seekers. Instead of the 'stick' of using enforced poverty and destitution against people seeking asylum in the UK, the Home Office has started using 'carrots' - offering asylum seekers bribes to give up their claims. But the scheme does not guarantee safety - or that anyone taking up the 'incentive' will actually get any money.World Band Night
13-01-2006 12:30
Student Action for Refugees are holding a World Band Night on the 16th Feb at Sobar.Any money raised will be going to CLEAR which provides services and advice for refugees living in Southampton, and to the Poppy Project which deals with the trafficking of women.
rioting breaks at out rampART
12-01-2006 16:06
Tonight (thursday) the free weekly cinema at the rampART is showing films related to the french riots.During the last few weeks these riots have been used to fuel race hatred by nationalist and other right wing scum in the hope of gaining power and influence for their fascist agenda.
In France, Le Pen's Front National party has been milking the situation for all it's worth and apparently gaining support. Opinion poll commissioned by the newspaper Le Monde, suggest that only 39 percent of the French now believe that the views of the Front National party, are "unacceptable." That suggests up to 61 percent, now see Le Pen as a legitimate political candidate, along with his policies of compulsory mass expulsion of immigrants, including children born in France.
Moreover, the ideas and resentments that underpin Le Pen's message have become widespread. Nearly three out of four (73%) declared that "the traditional values of France are not adequately protected." while almost two out of three (63%), said that there are too many immigrants in France.
Le Monde also reported another poll organized by France's National Commission for the Rights of Man. It was accompanied by a confidential report to the Minister of the Interior, noting that "the word 'racist' has been liberated." Indeed it appears that the word is no longer used with shame in France. The poll found that 33% of French adults used the word 'racist' to describe themselves (in rural districts the percentage is even higher at 48%!). In the same poll a year ago, only 25 percent would call themselves 'racist.'
The poll showed that the public acceptance of racist attitudes is strongest among men, the elderly, skilled workers, small business people, company heads and workers. The report concludes that, "the end of the taboo against racism is confirmed by the finding that 63 percent of respondents said that certain behavior (by immigrants) can justify racist reactions."
Slightly less than the previous poll, this one reported that 56% thought that there were too many immigrants in France - even immigrants saying the same apparently! France has the highest proportion of immigrants in Europe with some 10 percent of the population, mostly of Islamic backgrounds in North Africa.
Racism appears to be making gains around Europe. In Belgium, the successor to the Vlaams Blok party (a party banned two years ago for it's 'extremism'), has 18% of the vote and is the second largest party in the Flemish parliament. It is also the largest party on Antwerp city where 'Mohammed' is now the most common name in new registrations of births.
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20051218-092936-9999r In the UK, the British Nazi Party have also been striving to gain support for their fascist agenda by capitalising on peoples fear after the french riots.
http://www.bnp.org.uk/columnists/brimstone2.php?leeId=66 All over the internet you can find right wing websites exploiting stories of gang rape of white women by muslims men in order to fuel the race hate that gives them power. Where the riots in france really race riots by terrorist inspired muslim youth or simply a class issue of alienation, discrimination and poverty? Whatever the answer that fact remains that tensions are growing as the cap between the haves and have nots widens under global capitalism and as the worlds finite resources are squandered at an ever increasing pace.