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Report from No Borders action in Crawley

20-09-2007 17:30

Report from action received at 5.45pm. People have arrived in Crawley centre from the camp, and are handing out leaflets and the Gatwick X-press, a free paper about the action to local people. Two Banners are being displayed with the slogans "NO BORDERS" and "Freedom of Movement for ALL People." Some locals are expressing an interest, although the fact that there are more police officers than campers may be putting some off.

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Local paper demonises Gatwick campers.

20-09-2007 17:20

This is a photographic copy of the front page article in the local newspaper, the Mid Sussex Times. And below is a copy that a camper sent to the editor and the journalist who signs it, Carolyn Robertson.

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No Borders Camp: Thursday sees first action

20-09-2007 16:39

Campers at the No Border camp near Gatwick, spent the morning putting finishing touches to the campsite, and after lunch attended a variety of workshops. Topics included an overview of detention centres in the UK, activist trauma, FIT Watch, and a presentation by the Israeli Anarchists Against The Wall.

Police presence outside the camp has been fairly low key, and the new shift brought with it CO2558, Steve Discombe of the Met's Forward Intelligence Team, whose boredom has been relieved by various Fit Watch activities. Vehicles are being allowed in and out unimpeded, although the police are doing what they can to photograph all those who enter.

Since the workshops ended at 4pm, campers have been making their way to Crawley Town Centre, where they are engaged in meeting local people, handing out flyers and a free paper, the Gatwick X-press in order to publicise the action and the reasons behind it to local people.This may go some way to countering the disinformation printed in a front page article in the local paper, the Mid Sussex Times. Entitled "Safety fears as demonstrators camp in village", the article outlines the concerns of a local councillor, before going on to explain the issues behind the camp.

After meeting with local people, campers will move onto a gig near Crawley station to listen to bands and share food.

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Protest against David Irving meeting in Coventry

20-09-2007 16:11

Tomorrow night (Friday 21 September), with the help of the British National Party, David Irving, the notorious Holocaust denier and liar, is booked to speak at the Royal Warwicks Club in Coventry.

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Guardian Bullshit: "You're either in the Gatwick camp or the Heathrow camp"

20-09-2007 11:37

Brendan O'Neill's dreadful article on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" site, In the other camp, ends with this conclusion:

So, are you a green or are you a supporter of completely free migration? Because it seems to me at least that you cannot be both. You're either in the Gatwick camp or the Heathrow camp. Make your choice.

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brendan_oneill/2007/09/in_the_other_camp.html

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Setting up the Gatwick No Border Camp

20-09-2007 00:16

About 40 or so people arrived at the new site on Sunday afternoon to start set up. Time was of the essence: since the previous site had fallen through following police harassment of the landowner, the organisers wished to establish their presence as soon as possible and to set up the big structures. The structures had been collected from various other collectives around the country, many of which have been used for other camps. Soon the camp began to look rather familiar to the more seasoned camper!

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Pix from the No Border Camp

19-09-2007 23:56

Some quick pictures from the No Border Camp today.

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Impressions from the NoBorder camp

19-09-2007 23:41

"The best organised camp I have ever seen", said one.

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Return Beatrice to Liverpool

19-09-2007 22:32

Beatrice who was living in Liverpool was 'removed' to Cameroon on 28th August after being held in Yarls Wood detention camp for many weeks. Beatrice resisted being forced onto the plane but she has told us that she was very badly beaten and kicked by her two 'escorts'. Her condition was so bad that the Cameroonian authorities refused to acccept someone who was in such a bad state into their country and put her on a plane the same night on a flight back to the UK. She remains in Yarls Wood and has had her mobile taken from her and she is very unhappy with her legal representatives.

Leafleting at St Lukes at the top of Bold Street on Saturday 22nd September 1.30 - 2.30 for Beatrice and others, as sadly Beatrice's case is not exceptional, many others suffer from these racist immigration controls.

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From Dungavel to Death in Iraq: Remember Solyman Rashed

19-09-2007 19:09

Solyman Rashed was killed in Iraq on 3rd September, two weeks after being deported. There will be a vigil to remember him in George Square, Glasgow, this Thursday from 5.30 to 6.30pm.
It is an open vigil and the organisers encourage anyone to attend.

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Cops demand more cash to deal tactically with undesirable immigrants:

19-09-2007 12:12

By Stefano Ambrogi Reuters - 1 hour 55 minutes agoLONDON (Reuters) - A police chief in Eastern England has called on the government to provide more cash to fight crime as an influx of migrant workers pressures resources.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070919/tuk-uk-britain-migrants-fa6b408_3.html

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Stop Deporting Cameroonians

19-09-2007 05:56

'Whether we have leave to remain or don't have leave to remain, let us unite'

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20th of september : a european charter for the Congo Kinshasa

18-09-2007 20:05

The French government decided to deport using charter at the 20th of September refugees from Congo at destination to the "Democratic Republic of Congo", this country has been rent by ethnic strife and civil war since 1994 and the politic instability and the awful sanitary situation are often subject to alarming reports made by well known internal organisms. This summer, the high court of justice of Great Britain decided to suspend all extraditions to this country "due to tortures and rapes risks incurred by extraded people at their arrival".

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The Price of Freedom.

18-09-2007 14:54

An Iraqi man was killed on his return to his home country after the Home Office detained him for over a year and rejected his claim for asylum.

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The Gatwick No Border Camp forced to change location after police harassment

17-09-2007 13:24

Due to constant police harassment and pressure, the owner of the No Border Camp site has decided to pull out from renting his land. However, a new site has now been rented near the village of Balcombe, West Sussex.
For directions:

http://noborders.org.uk/Static/CampHowToGetThere

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Felicia Sakwe

17-09-2007 12:06

Felicia fled from Cameroon to seek refuge in this country in October 2005.

She is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, with removal directions for next Monday 24th September, this will be the second attempt to remove Felicia.

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Red Saunders remembers the battle of lewisham

17-09-2007 08:53

Red Saunders, a founder member of Rock against Racism recounts his experiences of "The Battle of Lewisham" Thirty years ago this year

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"Slave Trade? Wasnae Us!"

16-09-2007 13:03

As part of Glasgow's Doors Open day and a curtain-raiser to October's Black History Month events, speakers and musicians gathered at St Andrews in the Square to commemorate 200 years since the Abolition of Slavery Act.

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Escape from Doncatraz documentary screening

14-09-2007 09:32

It’s the issue everyone is talking about…
The issue that just won’t go away…
Finally tackled in a brand-new documentary by Jay Baker of SilenceBreaker Films…

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Pegah Emambakhsh is free!

12-09-2007 16:57

The Iranian woman is no longer considered an illegal immigrant, she is now
a refugee awaiting asylum. Her first thoughts went to the friends who have
helped her and rescued her three times from the plane deporting her to her death.