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Photos of No Borders "bubble"

@bolish the borders | 08.04.2006 21:04 | April 2006 No Borders Days of Action | Migration | London

A group of about 40 were held in a police "bubble" for about an hour after going to the side of Yarlswood to make themselves visible to the people imprisoned inside.

We're watching you - CCTV attached to crane watching demonstration

The main demo as seen from pavement walking towards the footpath

Flower borders not State Borders - clearly the Officer isn't a fan of the idea

Police harrassing a digital photographer

People being pushed and escorted out of the footpath

Those doing the pushing

The original "bubble"

The aftermath of being pushed into a mesh-wire fence

Section 14 being announced

The arrested being magically de-arrested after giving his name and address

The police gauntlet - note the single normal person on the mid-left

Being made to wait for the coaches

The detention centres and their protectors

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Being escorted home

A group of about 40 people individually went around the back of Harmondsworth and Yarlswood detention centres to allow themselves to be visible to those who are being imprisoned inside. After about half an hour the police pushed people out of the public footpath and onto the pavement where people were placed in a "bubble" (cordone's clearly too fierce a word for the cops) and held till the coach's were leaving.

People were given a really impassioned response from people inside the detention centre, with detainees waving and banging on the bars in their windows.

The police - fairly violently (see the injury) - pushed people out of the public footpath that runs to the side of the detention centre. They then 'held' people under Section 14 of the Public Order act for about an hour in a police "bubble".

Slowly they start moving people - individually - from one "bubble" to another. To get from one to another you had to walk through twenty cops one of whom was demanding a name and address under Section 50 of the Police Reform Act. Having now received legal advice its clear that this didn't really give them the right to take our name and addresses, though the one person who refused was arrested to ensure they did get his details. The reason given for taking our details was because there was a 'possibility' that we were involved in an 'anti-social' act that could have caused 'alarm and distress for the detainees and those in the nearby industrial estate'.

People being taken out one by one was a really succesful tactic at keeping us as a group confused and atomised, and I think something we should really ensure the cops can't pull on us again!