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Come celebrate Norouz with Cross Border Beats!

05-03-2007 11:58

Birmingham ARC + IRANIAN REFUGEE ASSOCIATION

CROSS BORDER BEATS!

An Iranian evening of International music and food in support of refugees and asylum seekers + NOROUZ A CELEBRATION OF THE IRANIAN, KURDISH + AFGHANIE NEW YEAR

Sat 10th March 2-6pm @ The Oaklands Centre, Winleigh Road, Handsworth Wood, Birmingham B20 2HN

admission £5.00

refugees/ asylum seekers/ unemployed Free

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PHOTOS - National demonstration in Bologna the 3rd of March 007

04-03-2007 11:56

Towards the repeal of Bossi-Fini Law. First step: the closure of all detention centres.

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Close Down Dallas Court Reporting Centre! Monday 26 March 2007, 12pm

01-03-2007 14:55

No to state racism! Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportations! No to the racist Labour government!

The next protest in the series of monthly protests at Dallas Court Reporting Centre, South Langworthy Road, Salford Quays (nearest Tram stop Broadway), will be held on Monday 26 March 2007 at 12pm - 2pm. People are kidnapped daily at Dallas Court and taken to detention centres, and racially abused and insulted by racist staff. All are urged to attend and support these protests against the oppression of asylum seekers by this racist Labour government. NWASDG has been organising these protests since May 2006. Get involved!

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NWASDG Organising Meeting, Saturday 10 March 2007, 2.00pm.

01-03-2007 14:51

There will be an organising meeting at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 2.00pm. This meeting is for all who want to help defend asylum seekers and refugees against Britain's racist laws. Everyone is welcome.

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Anti-deportation stall on Saturday 3 March 2007, 12-2pm

01-03-2007 14:48

Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation stall on Saturday 3 March 2007, 12-2pm, on Market Street, Manchester. You are invited to attend and take an active part.

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Save ESOL campaign lobby of Parliament

28-02-2007 17:47

Save ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Campaign lobby of Parliament and rally on Wednesday 28th February 2007, attended by about 1,000 ESOL students and teaching staff. Protest against proposed cuts to free ESOL provision. One of the biggest lobbies of Parliament for a long time.

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Deportation from US shows corruption, hypocrisy over our shared heritage

28-02-2007 11:00

I was deported from the US in 1999 after a 51 day hunger strike protesting at bigoted treatment by police following an altercation over a trivial argument with a female university student in Boulder in November 1993. The ensuing struggle -to clear my name, address American ignorance and arrogance, and play my part in amending their hypocritical immigration laws -epitomises political corruption. What follows is an e-mail sent to journalists following a scheduled sentencing at Blackfriars Crown Court, London last September over this issue.

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Howard Government intent on Refoulement of Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers

26-02-2007 21:45

85 Sri Lankan asylum seekers were rescued by the HMAS Success last week and taken to the new high security detention facility on Christmas Island. Pamela Curr, from the Melbourne based Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, said "The Australian government must now abide by its signature to the Convention on Refugees and access these peoples claims fairly. They must not be transported to Nauru so that Australia can avoid giving them access to legal advice and refugee processing."

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protest NOW at Tinsley house, locked on to gates

26-02-2007 15:58

Activists locked to gates of Tinsley House detention centre, crawley, to try and stop removal of failed asylum seekers to Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Witnessing The Filipino Exodus And Diaspora

26-02-2007 07:56

Two new books by noted Filipino author E. SAN JUAN, Jr. explore the predicament of millions of Filipinos leaving the Philippines and working or settling in other countries (thousands in the UK, Ireland, and the E.U.) around the world--an unprecedented 9-10 milllion of 85 million Filipinos are scattered around the planet. Their huge remittance props up a sharply divided class society where a tiny oligarchy (supported by Washington/Pentagon) exploits and oppresses the majority. Over 830 victims of extrajudicial killings occured from 2001 up to the present under Arroyo's corrupt, illegitimate regime. Why is this happening?

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Leeds demo against DR Congo deportations

25-02-2007 17:57

People from across the Yorkshire region came to protest outside the Home Office in Leeds on Friday. Protestors were demanding that all deportations to the DR Congo must be stopped immediately.

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Reminder: Emergency demo against deportations to DRC Mon. 26th 1-3pm

25-02-2007 13:11

STOP DEPORTATIONS TO DRC - CONGO IS NOT SAFE

Emergency protest Monday 26 February 1-3pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes St James Park and Westminster)

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"Camp Howard" - Australia's very own Guantanamo Bay on Christmas Island - Feb 20

25-02-2007 00:35

The completion date for this $364 million dollar Guantanamo-style detention complex is mid-2007...

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Secret deals with Indonesia/Australia over Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers

24-02-2007 21:44

February 24, 2007 - Saturday, 24 February 2007: A secret deal is being struck between the Australian and Indonesian government to return 85 Sri Lankan asylum seekers back to Indonesia and then to Sri Lanka - without processing their Inernationally recognised human rights to claim asylum. Refugee advocacy groups had called on the Government to bring the asylum seekers to mainland Australia or provide access to lawyers for advice on their rights...

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XL flies you to Death: Anti-Deportation Protest

23-02-2007 19:45

Today No Borders Brighton protested at the main office of charter flight company XL due to the company's involvement in the deportation of almost 50 people to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Middlesbrough Solidarity March For the Congolese Community

23-02-2007 18:11

3.00 pm Sunday 25th February
Marion House
Sacred Heart RC Church
Linthorpe Road
Middlesbrough

Organised by: African Community Association in the North East (ACANE)

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Stop the deportation of Aseng and her six children to DRC

23-02-2007 16:42

On Friday 16th February Aseng Nzoabar and six children, aged between 3 and 17 years, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were detained in a "dawn raid" in Leeds.
They have been given removal directions for Monday 26th February on the "deportation charter flight" to the DRC.

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DR Congo is not safe - stop the 'Charter Flight'

23-02-2007 09:29

Emergency protest - Monday 26 February 1.00 -3.00pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes: St James Park and Westminster)

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Posh Fash Throw Down Gauntlet

23-02-2007 01:01

A group of hard right and ultra nationalist organisations have thrown down a gauntlet to the left by threatening to march on mayday demanding the right to an English parliament.

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Glasgow: 100+ Protest at Removal to DR Congo

22-02-2007 13:37

Over a hundred Glaswegian asylum seekers and supporters, most of African origin, held a lively protest outside the Home Office Reporting Centre at Brand Street yesterday (Wednesday). They were protesting against the detention and attempted removal of Eddie Ngienga, Angelique Lukombo and their children, here since 1999.