UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

University Struggles Update

19-12-2009 11:45

The struggle to save jobs and the quality of education continues at the University of Birmingham.

Around the Campaigns Friday 18th December 2009

18-12-2009 13:48

[Correction to previous message, fifth line should have read, 'From now through to the end of the first week of 2010 there will be extra police checks on cars.']

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This Festive Season? / Stay out of cars / stay out of detention

18-12-2009 11:49

The next fortnight, supposed season of good cheer, it probalyl is if you are a UK national, not if you are a 'foreign national' with out secure status.

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Free Amadeu Casellas, Anarchist Political Prisoner

18-12-2009 10:37

Llibertat Amadeu Casellas! Solidarity with Anarchist Political Prisoners!

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Never ending horror of child immigration detention

18-12-2009 09:32

Report on an unannounced short follow-up inspection of Tinsley House IRC 13-15 July 2009 by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons (Full report attached)

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DE: Grassroot Union FAU Berlin - Prohibited!

17-12-2009 20:19

On December 11, 2009, the Berlin District Court decided that the Free Workers' Union Berlin (FAU-B) could no longer call itself a union or grassroots union. This is the culmination of a series of attempts by the Neue Babylon Berlin GmbH to legally hogtie the strongest and most active form of workers' representation in the company.

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BMI lease plane to UK/France for joint 'Charter flight' to Afghanistan

16-12-2009 15:59

On Tuesday 15th December, a BMI plane left the UK with a number of Afghans who had been refused asylum in the UK. It stopped at Charles de Gaulle (Roissy/CDG) in France, where Afghans refused asylum in France, were boarded, the flight then departed, destination for the Afghans on board, Kabul.

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Moscow: Police break up "Anti-Capitalism-2009” march

16-12-2009 10:11

On December 13, despite a ban by the authorities, leftist forces held an "anti-capitalism-2009 march in the centre of Moscow.

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Lydia Besong Must Stay

16-12-2009 07:50

Lydia Besong, a Cameroon national and resident of Manchester, is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ 101 Heathrow TN4 on Monday 21st December 2009 at 19:00. Although he is not in detention, the Home Office also wishes to deport her husband Bernard Batey at the same time.

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Workers' FIghtback - Czech Wildcats/Greece On Fire Again/California Fighting

16-12-2009 00:31

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 15th December 2009

15-12-2009 13:57

- "The forced return to Kosovo of people who have found shelter in European states should be halted", said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights publishing today a letter to the Chancellor of Germany, Dr. Angela Merkel. He notes that Kosovo lacks infrastructures allowing refugees' sustainable reintegration.

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The cruelty of locking up child asylum-seekers

14-12-2009 11:06

There are alternatives to the policy of detaining migrant families

Last week the medical establishment called for the Government to overhaul its policy of detaining children in immigration removal centres. This week they are joined by a number of paragons from the world of children's literature including Michael Bond, Philip Pullman and Jacqueline Wilson. Both groups make a compelling case.
Leading article: The Independent, Monday, 14 December 2009

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Return of terrace politics

13-12-2009 14:52

As Gordon Brown declares class war on David Cameron from the hallowed turf of the House of Commons members bar via his middle-class PR machine, football stadiums are becoming the new battleground for expressing genuine class anger and dissent.

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Photos Of EDL

12-12-2009 18:26

DUE TO THE TALKING AND DEBATING AND PLANNING AND NON-PLANNING AROUND "WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE EDL?"....THOUGHT IT WOULD HELP A FEW PEOPLE IF WE PUBLISHED SOME OF THEIR UGLY MUGS FOR YOU TO SHARE WITH IDEA OF YOUR OWN. MAYBE A WANTED PICTURE OR A SPOTTER CARD!!

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Ntarh Pascal Ntarh Belongs to Glasgow

11-12-2009 17:30

Ntarh Pascal Ntarh a national of Cameroon and resident of Glasgow, is currently in detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Sunday 13th December @ 19:00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101.

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Rural activists killed in Brazil (by Latuff)

11-12-2009 02:53

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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World Human Rights Day Thursday 10th December

10-12-2009 08:48

Dignity and Justice to all of You from NCADC

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Around the Campaigns Wednesday 9th December 2009

09-12-2009 08:06

Child 'M' Back in Manchester, where he belongs
Child M and his family were released from detention yesterday evening after 3 weeks in Yarl's Wood. No reason has been given for their release. They are now back in Manchester.

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Manpower meets hammer force

08-12-2009 16:55

On the night of 6th December Manpower offices in Bristol were attacked with girlpower hammers.

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Self-Harm in Immigration detention July/August/September 2009

08-12-2009 14:17

Figures on self-harm in immigration detention between July and September 2009 inclusive under the following headings: