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Cottage Collective Defend Building Occupation at Court Hearing
On the 24th August 2006, members of the Cottage of Content collective were summoned to Birmingham Priory Courts to defend their occupation of the disused Sparkbrook community centre at risk from developers.
Film Night at The Occupied Cottage Social Centre - Tonight!
There is a Film Night at the Occupied Cottage Social Centre, 147 Kyrwicks Lane, Sparkbrook, tonight from 7pm. Films being shown are "Land and Freedom" - an insight into the Spanish Civil War and "V for Vendetta". The night follows on from a series of successful weekly film screenings; tonight's event is organised by the West Midland's Anarchist Group.Teaching Compassion in Coventry - Cruelty Free Fair & Talks
This will be a fantastic day with many attractions including cruelty-free merchandise stalls from a variety of animal protection organisations, speakers, films, vegan cafe, cookery demonstration, FREE veggie food samples and recipes and lots more. This will be an exciting and unique event in Coventry, raising awareness of how everyone can live compassionate, healthy, ethical lifestyles and help to create a more caring society. FREE entry.
Ilengela Must Stay
Ilengela Ileo is a 30 year old woman facing deportation to the DRC. She has lived in the UK for 3 years with her Mum and baby Sister who have leave to remain. She knows nobody in the DRC, her 4 brothers and 1 sister are missing presumed dead. We want the Home Office to allow her stay with her family on compassionate grounds. Please give us your support.
First Court Hearing for The Cottage of Content's Occupiers
Press Release: First Court Hearing for The Cottage of Content's Occupiers 23 July, 2006
The Cottage of Content, a community and youth centre in Sparkbrook closed by Birmingham City Council last year, was occupied on 9 July, 2006, by a group of activists, who, along with local people, aim to put the building back into community use.
Since the start of the occupation, the collective who organised the take-over have been issued with various letters from Birmingham City Council demanding they vacate the premises. The latest letter received was a court summons, scheduled for Thursday, 24 August. Members of the Collective are planning to defend their actions and the occupation of the Cottage at the hearing, which is taking place at Birmingham Civil Justice Centre (33 Bull Street, Birmingham) at 11:20am.
The first public meeting of the Cottage Occupied Social Centre took place on 10th July, 2006, where the occupiers and members of the neighbourhood expressed their common desire for the place to be returned to public social use. A petition to "save our community centre from property developers" was drawn up and circulated in the neighbourhood. This was followed by a general public meeting on 21 August, where local residents expressed their anger at the loss of a valuable community resource without being consulted by the Council, and their desire to have it back. There will be another general meeting on 29 August, where representatives from the Council, local Councillors and the local MP will be invited to face the local people.
Whilst building up a campaign to compel the Council to re-instate this valuable community resource, the space is being used for a wide range of activities, from DIY and educational workshops, screenings and socials, a community library and Internet café, to a meeting place for various grassroots groups, including Birmingham Food Not Bombs, Birmingham NoBorders, Indymedia Birmingham, Women Fight Back, Birmingham Solidarity Federation and the West Midlands Anarchists. A local playgroup is also using the building to meet up regularly, and a local dominoes team is going to meet up there soon. Regular, open meetings are held every Monday at 7:30pm.
Restoration of Sparkbrook Cottage Continues Despite Looming Court Case
The occupation of the Sparkbrook social centre known as the Cottage of Content is ongoing, yet while court proceedings and legalities are set in place against the occupation, the renovation and revival of the community asset is continuing unabated.Sparkbrook Social Centre Occupation Approaches Seventh Week
The Sparkbrook community centre neglected by Birmingham council, known as the "Cottage of Content", is approaching its seventh week of occupation, with encouraging progress and community participation increasing.Anti-Deportation Picket in Solihull This Friday
While the number of forced deportations is alreadly reaching unprecedented records, and asylum seekers of ceratin nationalities (Iraqis and Zimbabweans, for example) are facing the prospect of mass deportation campaigns in the near future, Birmingham NoBorders and Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign are holding their monthly picket at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull this coming Friday, 25 August, 2006.
The picket at Sandford House (41 Homer Road, Solihull) will start at 12 noon to highlight this dim reality and demand an end to all deportations of asylum seekers. Come along and show your anger and disgust!
Cave Dwelling Muslim Behind Liquid Bomb Non-Plot
Never mind that “liquid bombs” are fantastical nonsense, or there is no evidence those arrested—more accurately, disappeared—in Britain plotted to blow up planes (no bombs, no airline tickets, no passports), the corporate media, having established the now widely believed Brothers Grimm story of Muslim perfidy by way of household chemicals, has moved to the next level.BBC Today Gets Undocumented Migrant Arrested
There was an outrageous piece on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme the other day exposing the 'scandal' of the Home Office not arresting and deporting undocumented workers. As part of the report, BBC reporter John Minel entraped a worker into talking about his immigration status, and then betrayed him to the Home Office, leading to the man's arrest and imprisonment.
28%: 'Removals Failure' Rate
The Daily Mail today published a report about "hundreds of asylum seekers escaping deportation." But whlie the newspaper, famous for its racist attacks on immigrants and asylum seekers, attributed this 'failure' to the "incompetence by the Government's shambolic immigration department", activists and anti-deportation campaigns quite surely have a lot to do with it.
Boycott the Royal Navy
There have been reports that the Royal Navy is to flood shops with goods bearing its logo to fund a recruitment drive. Shouldn't something be done about this?
Worcestershire/ Herefordshire AR News Update
News round-up Aug 14th - Aug 17thstop Zimbabwe deportations
A meeting for Zimbabweans and their friends.Voices of Pakistani Women Detained in UK
"We always are the slippers of our husbands"A statement from Maliha, Sajjida, Farzana, Sadia, Adibunnisa, Masooma and Heenia, seven Pakistani women currently Imprisoned in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre
Climate Camp Meeting Number 3
There will be a third meeting Friday 18th August at The Occupied Social Centre in Sparkbrook at 7.00pm ( The Cottage of Content Occupied Social Centre, 147 Kyrwicks Lane, Sparkbrook, B11 1SS:[url]
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Revival of West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaigns
With the number of forced deportations reaching unprecedented records and asylum seekers of ceratin nationalities (Iraqis and Zimbabweans, for example) facing the prospect of mass deportation campaigns in the near future, a number of failed and successful asylum seekers, along with their supporters, met yesterday in Birmingham to build up campaigns against their possible deportation. The result was reviving the West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaigns (WMADC), which disbanded in 2000, after 15 years of successful campaigns.
Acoustic night at the Cottage Social Centre!
Birmingham's latest autonomous social centre, The Cottage, will be holding a Acoustic night open to everyone and possibility of a drumming workshop. If you don't have an instrument bring your voice!Britain Names Suspects in Alleged Airline Bomb Plot; British Muslims Skeptical,
Britain has named 19 of the 24 people arrested yesterday on suspicion of plotting to blow up passenger jets flying to the United States and has frozen their assets. We go to Britain to look why many British Muslims are skeptical of the plot and fear a backlash on their communities.