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Days of Action in Support of Asylum Seekers in Manchester!

NWASDG | 06.06.2006 01:07 | Refugee Week 2006 | Anti-racism | Migration | Liverpool

The North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group is holding a day of action against all deportations on Market St, Manchester.

As part of Refugee Week, on Thursday 22nd June 2006, NWASDG is organising a picket of Dallas Court, as part of a national day of action against outside Immigration Reporting Centres, called by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees.

All Anti-Deportation, Anti-Racist Activists, Socialists and all those opposed Britains racist immigritation laws are invited to join all NWASDG Events.

Street stalls and protest against Labour's vicious and racist immigration laws!

12-3pm, Saturday 17 June, Market Street, Manchester

No to deportations! We demand the right to work!
Our children are not criminals, STOP FINGERPRINTING THEM!
Legal representation for all asylum seekers as a right!

Under racist immigration laws asylum seekers are targeted and face the threat of detention or deportation at any time to war-torn countries like Sudan, Iraq, DRCongo, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Under section 9 of the 2004 Act introduced by Labour, benefits are taken away from families of ‘failed’ asylum seekers, leaving them and their children homeless and destitute. Many asylum seekers driven by desperation have gone underground, over 30 have taken their own lives, hundreds have been on hunger strikes at detention centres on and off since June 2005.

They are beginning to organise the fightback and we must support them!
Defend all asylum seekers!

Picket of Dallas Court Reporting Centre - Place of Fear

Thursday 22 June 2006, 12-2pm, Dallas Court, South Langworthy Rd, Salford Quays

Big Noise demo! Come and make lots of noise!
Close down Dallas Court! Free all asylum detainees!

Part of a National day of action outside Immigration Reporting Centres, called by Tyneside Community Action for Refugees.

Under racist immigration laws asylum seekers are targeted and face the threat of detention or deportation at any time to war-torn countries like Sudan, Iraq, D.R.Congo, Afghanistan and Nigeria. Under section 9 of the 2004 Act introduced by Labour, benefits have been taken away from families of ‘failed’ asylum seekers, leaving them and their children homeless and destitute. Deportation of refugees including rape and torture victims, has increased, now at 1,350 a month. More and more asylum seekers are being evicted from their homes unto the streets. The situation is getting more desperate for asylum seekers, many of whom aren’t allowed to work, and are now electronically tagged. Even their children, some as young as five-years-old, are fingerprinted as if they were criminals.

Detention in prisons of asylum seekers and over 2000 of their children is increasing, and brutality and assaults in these places of fear is unrelenting, leading to more people taking their own lives. Many suffer from depression and other psychological problems as a result of their criminalisation and the uncertainty facing them. Many asylum seekers driven by desperation have gone underground, over 30 have taken their own lives, hundreds have been on hunger strikes at detention centres on and off since June 2005 to protest against their arbitrary detention and racist treatment.

There is an urgent need to build resistance on the streets of the North West to the treatment of all asylum seekers by this racist, murderous Labour government. Asylum seekers are beginning to organise the fightback and the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group has been set up to support them!
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/05/341547.html

Get active with NWASDG! Defend all asylum seekers!

Next organising meeting of NWASDG: Tuesday 20 June, 7.30 pm, Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester.

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The North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group (NWASDG) is an anti-racist organisation. It is a coalition of asylum seekers and refugees defence campaigns and their supporters, which will campaign actively against any and all forms of racism and fascism.

NWASDG will actively defend and support any and all asylum seekers and refugees and their families, who are under the threat of detention, destitution or deportation from Britain, within the north west area of England. NWASDG will also assist and work with asylum seekers defence campaigns in other parts of Britain.

NWASDG will aim to set up and support as many (individual or collective) defence campaigns as possible, for asylum seekers and refugees, and will actively seek to encourage them to campaign together on a regular basis.

NWASDG will seek to promote positive images of asylum seekers and refugees and their families and communities, and challenge the image that is portrayed in the mainstream media.

NWASDG will also encourage and build links between these vulnerable communities and the indigenous British population.

NWASDG
- e-mail: fightback_05@yahoo.com

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