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An Invitation To The Gatwick No Border Camp 2007

no_border_camp | 25.05.2007 22:47 | No Border Camp 2007 | Migration | London

No Borders – No Nations – No Prisons

From 19th to 24th September 07 we will gather at Gatwick Airport for
the first No Border Camp in the UK. This camp will be a chance to work
together to try and stop the building of a new detention centre, and to
gather ideas for how to build up the fight against the system of
migration controls.

Gatwick Aiport - The Border Point

Gatwick is a border in the middle of Britain. People arrive here
everyday. People are forcibly deported from here everyday. It is a
place where people are imprisoned for unlimited lengths of time without
trial, where people are forced to hide underground and be invisible,
where people are treated as criminals for the 'crime' of crossing the
border.

In Britain, the government has recently announced its intention to
build a new detention centre, near Tinsley House, another detention
centre at Gatwick airport. This will be another in a long line of
barbarous prisons across the world, imprisoning people who migrate.
Unless we stop it from being built.

Not far from Gatwick there are other border fortifications: the
immigration reporting centre at Croydon, the airline companies who
charter deportation flights and the ID Interview centre in Crawley. And a few miles away are the border posts at Dover and Folkstone, where fear of detection by the border police forces people to risk their lives hiding under lorries, or in suffocating containers.

While the physical borders get fortified, governments also tighten up
the internal controls: from international databases to video
surveillance, biometric ID cards to electronic tagging. Just recently,
the UK government has announced the introduction of the Sirene System.
This will grant Britain access to the SIS (Schengen Information
System), a EU wide police database for refugees and migrants, planned
to be extended to keep protesters from moving around.

A Tactics Laboratory

How does daily life, from the need to work for survival to the welfare
system, reinforce these borders? How can we fight against the common
acceptance of borders, the idea of an inside and outside? How can we
claim freedom of movement as a basic right? How do we assert our
ability to decide whether to go or stay, according to our needs and
desires, not the needs of the state or the economy? How can we escape
control, and start building a movement powerful enough to challenge the
divisions between people?

We need to share knowledge with those who have broken these borders,
the hackers who escape control, those who survive without work and
money, those who fight the detention system , those who question
identities, those who have learnt to organise themselves without
hierarchy or divisions.

Camp(aign)ing Against Borders

This camp is continuing the tradition of the No Border camps across the
world since the late 1990s, and like the camps taking place this year
in the Ukraine in August and on the US/Mexican border in November. It
will be a space to share information, skills, knowledge and
experiences. A place to plan actions together against the system of
borders which divides us.

We are aware that the struggles for "no borders" reach far beyond "open
borders". Without borders the idea of states will become obsolete,
without states the national economies will be history. In a world
without borders, nobody will ask for papers anymore.

The camp will also be a laboratory of political and practical
self-organisation. The camp will consist only of people's contributions
to this. We are aware of the borders which divide ourselves from each
other, be it sex, class, race, nationality, or whatever. The border
camps are experiments in how to overcome these artificial and
separating identities.

No Borders

No Borders is a network of groups struggling for the freedom of
movement for all and an end to all migration controls. We call for a
radical movement against the system of control, dividing us into
citizens and non-citizens.

We demand the end of the border regime for everyone, including
ourselves, to enable us to live another way, without fear, racism and
nationalism.

We move, we meet. We talk, we fight.

Come camp with us.

Web (soon) :  http://noborders.org.uk

Contact:  g-anbc2007@riseup.net

List: Please subscribe the public mailing list at
 http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/gatwick07

Meetings: A public meeting for those who want to get involved in the
preparation, around the end of June, will be announced soon.

no_border_camp

Additions

PUBLIC MEETING

12.06.2007 08:04

This is an invitation to groups to join organising the
Gatwick area noborder camp. We're organising a weekend of meetings in
Rampart Social Centre in London from 30th of June to 1st of July

Saturday 30/June 1pm-6pm- Public meeting for individuals and groups to
talk about practical stuff for the camp ,exchanging ideas about what to do
during camp

Sunday 1st July 10am-2pm - meeting for No Border groups and friends


It would be great if people from as many noborder groups and other migrant
groups as possible could attend.We're hoping that this camp will have
input from groups around UK in terms of organising and content.


For more specific information on times and location we will post here later.

Brighton and London Noborders

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