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DETC Fundraising Meal

09-05-2006 01:13

The DETC campaign will be having a social evening of Nigerian food and music at the end of Refugee Week on Sunday 25 June to raise money for the campaign to keep Nigerian refugees Eucharia and Timeyi in Britain. The venue will be The Basement, 24 Lever Street, Manchester, at 6pm. Prices are from £5 to £10 to £15 depending on income. other asylum seekers can eat for free

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Colnbrook - more repression

08-05-2006 18:10

"trays, plates of food , the tray rack, cutlery,and almost everything dat wasn't nailed down was used on the officers"

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indymedia cinema/ noborders network

08-05-2006 17:20

Film + speakers about the recent protests against detention in Australia and in the UK

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PROTEST - DALLAS COURT MAY 10TH @ 10:30AM

08-05-2006 15:02

The Defend Abdullah Gawaan and Family Campaign is calling a demonstration/protest for the 10 May 2006 at 10.30 am outside Dallas Court, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays. This is in support of Abdullah Gawaan and his family who could be forcibly return to Libya.

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JAMAICA INN-JUSTICE

08-05-2006 11:38

Comes from Chile, lives here for 30 years, is threatened with deportation - to Jamaica!

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Serco office vandalised

06-05-2006 14:04

Serco's office in central london was vandalised on friday morning. Windows were broken and the acrostic slogan, "Shockingly // Evil // Racist // Corporate // Obscenity" was sprayed.

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Urgent Action Request - prevent deportation tomorrow

06-05-2006 03:30

To prevent forced deportation of mother & son to Uganda at 6.35 am tomorrow

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Campaigners plan unique guided tour to 'Leeds, the city of asylum shame'

05-05-2006 14:07

Campaigners working to support detained and destitute asylum seekers in Leeds and fight their deportation from the UK are planning a distinctly 'alternative' guided tour of the city tomorrow (Saturday 6 May).

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Home Secretary Sacked!

05-05-2006 12:42

There should be dancing in the streets!

Charles Clarke - NCADC are not sorry to see you go
However not for your failure to deport foreign nationals as NCADC have always opposed the Double punishment of sentence followed by deportation. We are glad to see you go because of your
Crass and Cumulative abuse of Asylum Seekers

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Immigration Detainee Art Exerbition

04-05-2006 14:39

Very beutifull and intresting ehibition at Woodstock Museum.

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Maydy 2006: Eye witness on the Autonomous Block March

04-05-2006 02:42

Written record of the days events with the Autonoumous Block.

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Home Secretary Re-introduces Transportation of Convicts

04-05-2006 00:34



In a surprise development the Home Secretary, Charles Clark announced his intention to re-introduce the transportation of convicts. Mr Clark said "They had the right idea in the 18th and 19th century when criminals were sent to the Australian wilderness."

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25.000 innocent people detained .../you have the newspapers you deserve

04-05-2006 00:19

While the racist lobby makes such a big fuss about a few ' foreign criminals' being let on the loose - and gets huge media attention, around 25.000 innocent men, women and children are detained in immigration removal centres - high security prisons in all but in name. Around 15.000 are deported every year, often to countries deemed too dangerous for Brithsh citiziens to travel to. Many are torture and rape survivors. What is the real scandal?

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SOAS Students take on SODEXHO

03-05-2006 16:18

Students at the London School of Oriental and African Studies are campaigning in solidarity with refugees, against their canteen, which is currently run by SODEXHO, the company which also runs Harmondsworth detention centre.

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Turkish & Kurdish Community groups denounce Harmondsworth IRC

02-05-2006 23:41

Sunday 29th April, a press conference was held by representatives of the Halvelki Kurdish community center and Daymer, a Turkish community center, both based in Hackney London, together with Asli Demirel, a Respect candidate for Hackney Council. People from London Against Detentions and London NoBorders also spoke.

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More4 video report on hunger strike and beatings

02-05-2006 23:03

More4s report on the April 8 demonstration, the following hunger strike and Amos Onokare, who was beaten for talking to the Guardian newspaper.

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Public meeting to expose Leeds as a city of asylum shame

02-05-2006 18:54

Campaigners working to support destitute asylum seekers in Leeds and fight their deportation are holding a public meeting tomorrow night at Leeds Metropolitan University (Wednesday 3 May) to expose the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers in Leeds and across the UK.

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Mayday London 2006 - Mainstream Media Coverage

02-05-2006 11:53

A few of the articles covering Mayday in London 2006 are below.

Two of the articles were accompanied by pictures of police pushing or grabbing at people on the autonomous bloc, despite no mention of the bloc, or the sound system incident being contained within the articles:

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London Citizens Workers' Association

01-05-2006 22:23

Congolese musicians entertain the crowd
Today saw the launch of a new organisation to support low-wage and migrant workers across London, backed by faith organisations, trade unions and social justice organisations.

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Immigration and May Day, from Chicago

01-05-2006 21:59

We Say Fight Back
Chicago is the birth place of 'May Day', but today's march demonstrated a disconnect between the current low paid workers demanding recognition within the system, and what we have grown globally to understand May Day as celebrating.