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National Front to visit Oakington Detention Centre and Cambridge

d mish repost from protest.net | 12.08.2004 14:08 | Anti-racism | Migration | Cambridge

The Nazi National Front are planning to visit Oakington detention
centre this Saturday, August 14th at 1pm, to protest against the presence of
asylum seekers. They then plan to visit Cambridge city centre to hand
out their filthy propaganda.

While they claim to expect 100 demonstrators, recent experience
suggests
that the actual turn out will be much, much smaller, perhaps in single
figures. If we can get a good crowd together we can show that the
people
of Cambridge have no interest in their politics of hate, and can
perhaps
ensure that the police ask them to leave without entering the city
centre.

We are thus asking people to meet at Oakington at 12:30 on Saturday
(August 14th) at the detention centre, which is signposted from the
A14. Anyone who can offer transport or who needs a lift should email
 unite@repeatfanzine.freeserve.co.uk.

To help build the protest, we will be leafletting in Cambridge City
Centre this Friday (August 13th), meeting outside the Co-op bank by
the Grafton Centre at 12.30.

d mish repost from protest.net


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Thanks for the notice!

13.08.2004 13:35

Will do my best to get there, but a bit more notice would have been handy!

Rudie


waste of time

17.09.2004 18:26

I was at Oakington during the National Front demonstration. If anyone were to ask me they would get the following reply...

'there is more that needs to be done on the inside of Oakington, never mind crappy little psuedo protests outside that do nothing other than irritate the people who work in Oakington. The majority of the security staff here are probably nazi's or have been involved in some sort of National Front movement at some point in their petty lives. The Immigration Service are the Hitler Youth of modern times. I deal with the ignorant rasict bastards everyday and nothing makes me feel sicker than seeing their refusal letters.'

On a more positive note, Oakington shuts down in a few years and we can start to work on closing down the rest of the centres and getting innocent people [guilty only of illegal entry] out of HMP's.

You may ask why do i work in Oakington if i hate it so much...let me tell you this...it's one thing to moan and winge and pretend to help...it's another to sit behind a fence or computer professing your support when in fact the only time your ever get out is to go to the shops and buy your Nike trainers. I do my best to help the people here and subvert the work of the Immigration Service. Everyday i'm here i make their work harder and i file complaint after complaint until my fingers bleed...sod the Home Office and let THEM all rot in Jail.

Concerned that not enough is done on the inside.


Oakington closure?

07.11.2006 14:45

Isn't Oakington staying open for longer now? I also heard that RLC lost their contract!

Talisker


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