UK Migration Newswire Archive
Emergency demo Monday re deportations to DRCongo
22-02-2007 12:21
At yesterday's meeting of the LSE Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! society at which a representative of the Congo Support Project spoke, it was agreed that we would organise an emergency demo on Monday to protest against the deportations planned for Monday evening. Police permission under SOCPA has now been granted. Please distribute information widely and come to event.UK To Ban Non-English Speaking Immigrants?
22-02-2007 10:00
An official British Government agency chose to mark UNESCO’s International Mother Language Day and its theme of ‘harmonious environment for all languages’ by questioning whether non-English speaking immigrants should be admitted to the country.Don't blame immigrants for bad use of English
21-02-2007 16:25
We are told that ‘multiculturalism has failed’, but not what multiculturalism is. Multicultural Britain isn’t a policy, it’s a fact. And now, apparently translating material into different languages, the purpose of which was to help people take part (integrate!) in society (attend evening classes for example or seek refuge from domestic violence) has suddently become a barrier to ‘integration’.Racist healthcare denial in Brighton and Hove
21-02-2007 14:11
On Friday 16th February about 20 people gathered with banners at the Royal Sussex Hospital, at the office of Jackie Bishop, local NHS Private Patient and Oversea's Patient's Co-ordinator. They were protesting against racist healthcare denial and demanding healthcare for all. Jacki Bishop has been denying asylum seekers treatment, kicked people out of hospitals and sent huge bills to people who were entitled to free care.19 Children & 23 adult DR Congolese to be deported by 'Charter Flight'
21-02-2007 10:24
N. Ireland Police Recruit Poles to meet Catholic Quota
20-02-2007 15:38
No forced 'Charter Fllights' to DR Congo
20-02-2007 06:02
The UK Home Office is stepping up the use of 'Charter Flights' to remove those refused asylum from the UKNo Border Gathering, Glasgow: 10/11 March 07
19-02-2007 00:28
UK government steps up assault on asylum-seekers
17-02-2007 22:31
The British Labour government is ratcheting up the pressure on asylum-seekers and refugees in Britain. Deportations are being pursued regardless of the consequences for the deportees. This policy reflects an increasingly belligerent government attitude towards refugees.Asylum From Homophobia: Urgent Support Needed
17-02-2007 21:15
Urgent support is needed for a lesbian woman seeking asylum from homophobic persecution: Ms Tilli Latifa who has been detained in Yarl’s Wood Removal Centre for almost nine months faces removal to Tunisia on Tuesday 20 February. Please support her by writing immediately to Immigration Minister Liam Byrne urging that she be allowed to stay (see below for details).Charter Flight to DR Congo - Monday 26th February 21.00hrs
17-02-2007 20:16
A number of DR Congolese individuals/families have been detained over the last few days. They all have the same removal directions...Full article | 3 additions | 1 comment
Autonomous activists invade GEO offices
17-02-2007 18:19
Activists involved in struggles against detention centres arrived in Reading yesterday to say hello to our friends at ‘Global Expertise in Outsourcing’ (The GEO Group), who last year were awarded the contract to run Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre in Kidlington.Rackmanism, Profiteering, Children and sub standard housing
17-02-2007 06:01
Rackmanism and why the UK is the worst place for child neglect in rich societies. A foretaste of how the Home Office would like to commission housing services for separated children seeking asylum.79 deportation charter flights from the UK in the last 12 months
16-02-2007 15:22
...to countries as safe as Afghanistan and IraqEnd the Repression of people seeking asylum!
15-02-2007 15:50
Halkevi, Day-Mer, and Gik-Der, Kurdish and Turkish organisations inthe UK are circulating a petition calling on the Home Secretary to
urgently review the treatment of people from Turkey seeking asylum in
the UK.
Friends of John Okello
14-02-2007 09:39
Video-chronicle: Demonstration against racism and foreigners law
13-02-2007 12:24
The immigrant people and the antifascist youth marched around the streets of the multicultural neighbourhood of Lavapies shouting: “native or foreigner, it is the same working class”.
Video and music produced by La Plataforma
Brize Norton - Anti forced removals demonstration
12-02-2007 13:44
2 short videos of noisy No Borders Demo 10th Feb - Heathrow
12-02-2007 12:24
Previous stuff:
Stop Deportations to Iraqi Kurdistan - including photo of defiant inmate at a distance!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361861.html More photos:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361996.html More photos: Nottingham against detention centres & deportations - Harmondsworth, Heathrow
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362059.html
Brize Norton - Anti forced removals demonstration
12-02-2007 11:49
[The photos below are from the No Borders demo at Harmondsworth on Saturday]