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URGENT: Please fax Jacqui Smith to protest against Rose's deportation

08-04-2008 20:59

Today Rose was moved from the police station to a detention centre, and we have information that she is due to be deported this Thursday, 10th April. Please fax Jacqui Smith on 020 8760 3132 and ask her to halt Rose's deportation and give her exceptional leave to remain. You can use the attached model fax or write your own

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Speak-out against Labour's racism!!! Sat 10 May 2008, 12pm, Piccadilly Gardens

08-04-2008 16:06

Open-mic session in Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, in which everyone can speak-out without censorship against the racist policies and 'inhuman treatment' of asylum seekers refugees and immigrants by this racist Labour government!

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Violence used to break hunger strike in Harmondsworth

08-04-2008 10:29

On Saturday 5th April , between 5 and 6 in the morning, around 50 police in riot gear entered Harmodsworth immigration removal centre and took 30 detainees away. Most of them have been put in isolation or into common prisons, effectively preventing them from communicating with the outside.

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This Saturday: Demo / Street Party for Autonomous Spaces, Manchester

07-04-2008 23:13

This Saturday (12th of April), from 5pm, there will be a demonstration and street party held in Manchester city centre in defence of autonomous spaces and for freedom of movement. Support would be much appreciated. The event takes place as part of an international day of action (www.april12.squat.net).

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Freedom for Rose! Demonstrations Tuesday and Wednesday in Newcastle

07-04-2008 22:52

Rose speaking at a TCAR march last year
Rose Aboukha from Newcastle was arbitrarily arrested under immigration regulations today at North Shields. Demonstrations for her released are being organised on Tuesday 8th April and Wednesday 9th April. Your support is needed.

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This Government Makes Asylum Seekers Sick

07-04-2008 15:56

Public Meeting - "Atrocious Barbarism": Limiting Healthcare Access to Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Monday 14th April 7pm at Showroom Cinema, Room 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX

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Harmodsworth repression

06-04-2008 19:34

It is official: some detainees have been assaulted and injuried when the riot police intervened to break the hunger strike and took 30 detainees out Harmondsworth IRC.

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Nottingham MayDay 2008 - public meeting & march/rally

06-04-2008 17:43

Two events are organised to celebrate MayDay this year. There's a public meeting on May 1st with Moazzam Begg (One of nine Britons held without trial at Guantanamo Bay) and Amdani Juma. And on May 3rd there's the march and rally, with speakers, stalls and music.

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Demonstration outside S.A.D.A.C.C.A for Eritrean Human Rights

06-04-2008 00:00

There was a demonstration Saturday 5 April 2008 outside bringing attention to the poor human rights record of the Eritrean govenerment

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It's official: working is a crime

05-04-2008 16:36

Right to work
An asylum seeker living in the Meadows has been jailed for eight months and faces deportation to Iraq after forging a registration card in order to secure work.

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Harmondsworth press release

05-04-2008 12:33

This was send around to the mainstream press.

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Repression of the Harmondsworth detainees' protest

05-04-2008 12:11

Riot police intervene to break the hunger strike

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Harmondsworth detainees' petition

04-04-2008 14:01

Original text of the petition written by the Harmondsworth detainees on hunger strike.

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Harmondsworth detainees on hunger strike

04-04-2008 09:03

From this morning 300 detainees in Harmondsworth are refusing food.

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Harmondsworth protest update

02-04-2008 12:33

The detainees (allegedly over 100) who spent the night in the courtyard went back inside this morning. Most are still refusing food. There are fights breaking out this moment because the guards were taunting the detainees over food.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, March 2008

02-04-2008 10:19

Eight actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in March 2008, and four improved, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch

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Lovey Nkomo to be deported

01-04-2008 21:23

Loughborough reporting centre
Lovey has been a volunteer with Refugee Action from July 2006 to 27th March when she was detained while signing on at Loughborough.

Please send letters to the Virgin Atlantic and the Home Secretary to try and prevent her forcible deportation tomorrow.

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Harmodsworth detainees protest, 1st April 2008

01-04-2008 20:17

Since this morning at 9am, all - or the majority at least- of immigration detainees at Harmondsworth removal centre have being refusing food and have been in peaceful occupation of the courtyard.
'We are human beings, we want to be treated with dignity we shall stay in the coutyard until our demands are heard.'

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UK government deports 60 Iraqi Kurds; no one notices

30-03-2008 16:53

Andy Worthington reports on the forced deportation of 60 Iraqi Kurds from the UK last Thursday, which has not been reported in any major media outlets at all.

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Action Needed In Solidarity With Melanesia Climate Refugees

30-03-2008 03:35

'Carteret Islanders are victims of climate change, we do not emit greenhouse
let alone drive cars on the island, do not
have an airstrip on the island, yet we have become victims of others doing'.

Probably get there by the end of next year on my yacht.