Asylum Seekers Speak Out! and Film Night Wed 18th

one-of-no-borders | 16.06.2008 13:41 | Anti-racism | Migration | London

Listen to the real story... Refugee and asylum seekers welcome to come and share their experiences. Q&A. The event is free and everybody is welcome.

Wed 18th June - 8.00 pm to 11.00pm
Some free food provided, but feel free to bring more and share!

Bowl Court Social Centre
Near Liverpool Street station
London
Map :

http://bowlcourt.wordpress.com/how-to-find-us/

Asylum seekers and refugees telling their experiences. This will be a community circle not a stage. Speakers needed (as many as possible!). Films: After Sangatte (by Oscar Beard) - Still Human, Still Here (A.I. film on the plight of destitute asylum seekers) - Real Harm (Schnews on the No Borders protest at Harmondsworth 2007) - Land of No Return (by Rachel Stevenson and Harriet Grant): all across the country, communities are organising themselves to stop their friends and neighbours from being deported.

Contact :

detaineesupport@riseup.net
07940 143983

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Anti-deportation campaigns unite:
STALLS at Refugee Week events

-Trude, Barbara and Trevor must stay!
-Juliet and Ashleen must stay!
-Jack must stay!
-Other campaigns are welcome to join!

We will collect as many signatures as possible and rise support for the campaigns.
Help needed at local events during Refugee week.
contact:

detaineesupport@riseup.net or call 07940 143983 / 07716 510148

one-of-no-borders

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Be sure they are genuine

16.06.2008 15:30

The organizers of this event must be sure none of the cases they highlight are bogus.
I remember R4's Today programme a few years back getting all excited about an alleged asylum seeker who was being deported back to Zimbabwe. He claimed he was gay and that he would be killed by the Mugabe regime.
Turned out he was in fact a South African and a notorious liar.

A good question would be to ask the asylum seekers why they did not seek haven in the first safe country they reached.
The vast majority of asylum seekers here have passed through numerous safe countries to get here, in violation of the Geneva convention where they are supposed to seek asylum in the first safe country they come too.

Zac

You've been reading too many tabloids mate

16.06.2008 17:36

In response to Zac, it's such a typical and unimaginative attitude to latch on to one story where an asylum seeker told a fib to then cast doubt on an entire group of people. The vast majority of people claiming asylum in the UK do so because they are fleeing war, persescution, violence, rape and other atrocities. They are forced into poverty by UK government policy and increasing numbers are being forced into destitution once their claims have been rejected. To talk of 'bogus' asylum seekers is nonense in a legal sense (an asylum seeker who feels under threat from war, violence or the threat of persecution). It's the type of xenophobia that has been consistently whipped up by the cowards who write for the tabloids in a vile attempt to a make scapegoats of individuals, many of whom have witnessed unimaginable horrors. The whole point of an event such as this is to hear their story and let them speak for themselves, rather than be spoken for by uninformed and prejudiced opinion.

barefoot jackal

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You've been reading too many tabloids mate

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