Skip Navigation | HOME | UK Indymedia | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About Us | Contact | Help | Support Us

manchester Indymedia

Report Meeting 6 May 2009 Cheetham Hill Terror raids

Charles | 08.05.2009 19:15 | Anti-racism | Repression | Terror War

At the above meeting on 6 May, demonstration was called for 6pm on Saturday 9 May 2009 as part of the process to build an anti-deportation campaign against the deportation of the 11 Pakistani students arrested in Cheetham Hill in April, some of whom are held in Strangeways prison, Salford.

At a Respect meeting in Cheetham Hill on 6 May, the meeting unanimously agreed to begin to build an anti-deportation campaign against the deportation of the 11 Pakistani students arrested in Cheetham Hill on 1 April, some of whom are held in Strangeways gaol (HMP Manchester, off Bury New Road). So a demonstration was called by the meeting for 6pm on Saturday 9 May 2009 at Strangeways prison.



Please support this demo and help prevent the deportation of these innocent students arrested as part of Labour's war on Muslim and immigrant communities.


No to all deportations! No to Labour's police state!

Defend all immigrants and asylum seekers!

Hands of the Muslim community!


P.S. Nahella Ashraf, of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) attended the meeting in Cheetham Hill on 6 May, but failed to announce the proposed Strangeways demonstration at a meeting she chaired the very next day on the terror raids and criminalising communities at the Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square. This sectarianism (or forgetfulness) is truly shameful but sadly typical of the SWP/STWC. The 'We didn't organise the event so we won't support it' trend of the social democratic British 'left' has to end as it doesn't help anyone, let alone the 11 Pakistani students facing deportation.

Charles

Download this article in pdf format >>

Email this article to someone >>

Submit an addition or make a quick comment on this article >>

Comments

Hide the following 3 comments

when?

08.05.2009 20:03

when is the demo, and who is it organised by?

do you know that it clashes with a much-advertised public campaign meeting by the Pakistani Community? (well, it might...the meeting is at 2pm in Longsight).

it seems that the various socialist organisation that want to assume a leadership role in this campaign all need reach out a bit more to each other - and to the affected communities and unaligned activists.

one of no borders


time 6pm

08.05.2009 20:05

sorry just saw you wrote that it's 6pm. Hopefully it'll get a mention at the meeting in Longsight.

one of no borders


Public meeting: Stop the Deportations

09.05.2009 00:01

Thanks all,

I agree with the above posts, and hope you can all make it to the above mentioned public meeting at 2pm in Longsight for muslims and non-muslims alike, to come together around the issue of these deportations of Pakistanis for the crime of being innocent, and hence of embarrassing the Home Office. I will try to attach the pdf of the flyer for the meeting. It is at 2pm at the Pakistani Community Centre on Stockport Road, Longsight. All are welcome to voice their concerns and get involved in the much-needed campaign to spring these poor guys out of detention pending appeal against deportation by executive fiat, and more broadly to restore our civil liberties and repeal recent venal legislative instruments such as the Terrorism so-called "Act" 2000. (No representative assembly can meaningfully act to deprive those it represents of their liberty. Such "acts" are a betrayal of the represented and are null and void by their own hand.)

Best Wishes,
Jim

Jim


Publish

Publish your news

Do you need help with publishing?

Kollektives

Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World

Other UK IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern Indymedia
Scotland

Manchester Topics

Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista

Manchester Actions 2010

Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands

Manchester Actions 2009

COP15 Climate Summit 2009
G20 London Summit
Guantánamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
University Occupations for Gaza

Manchester Actions 2008

2008 Days Of Action For Autonomous Spaces
Campaign against Carmel-Agrexco
Climate Camp 2008
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Smash EDO
Stop Sequani Animal Testing
Stop the BNP's Red White and Blue festival

Manchester Actions 2007

Climate Camp 2007
DSEi 2007
G8 Germany 2007
Mayday 2007
No Border Camp 2007

Manchester Actions 2006

April 2006 No Borders Days of Action
Art and Activism Caravan 2006
Climate Camp 2006
Faslane
French CPE uprising 2006
G8 Russia 2006
Lebanon War 2006
March 18 Anti War Protest
Mayday 2006
Oaxaca Uprising
Refugee Week 2006
Rossport Solidarity
SOCPA
Transnational Day of Action Against Migration Controls
WSF 2006

Manchester Actions 2005

DSEi 2005
G8 2005
WTO Hong Kong 2005

Manchester Actions 2004

European Social Forum
FBI Server Seizure
May Day 2004
Venezuela

Manchester Actions 2003

Bush 2003
DSEi 2003
Evian G8
May Day 2003
No War F15
Saloniki Prisoner Support
Thessaloniki EU
WSIS 2003

Languages

english

IMCs


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech