Manchester Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Nimco Mahamed Shire Detained at Yarlswood needs your support!!

NWASDG, 24-12-2007 17:35

On Friday 14th December 2007 Nimco Mahamed Shire was attacked and wronlgy accused of assault by a house mate. She was arrested by Greater Manchester Police and taken to Longsight Police Station. She was then taken to a holding centre at Manchester Airport before being moved to the infamous Yarlswood detention centre
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No Borders 'Dawn Raid' action also in Manchester

Manchester No Borders, 18-12-2007 11:20

This press release was send to the local media this morning... Read more | 1 comment >>

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Nott's group go to BNP Conferance

noBNP, 18-11-2007 22:27

People from Nottingham travelled to Blackpool to join in the protest to stop the fascist BNP at their party conference held at the Kimberley Hotel. Read more | 3 comments >>

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Eucharia and Timeyi Jakpa granted asylum!

Manchester Revolutionary Communist Group., 17-11-2007 20:52

After over two years of campaigning, on 5 November 2007, Eucharia Jakpa received a letter confirming her's and her 7-year-old son Timeyi's right to stay in Britain. Read more | 8 comments >>

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Report - March against Racism! Saturday 3 November 2007

NWASDG, 17-11-2007 20:46

Saturday's demonstration in support of asylum rights saw up to 50 people join in a militant and noisy march from Whitworth Park through Rusholme up Dickenson Road past Longsight Market ending with a rally outside Slade Lane Neighbourhood Centre. There were banners from North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, British Libya Solidarity Campaign and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! The march was also supported by members of the International Organisation of Iranian Refugees and the Anarchist Federation with food provided at the end rally by Manchester Food not Bombs.
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Iranian asylum seeker, Omid Karimi, speaks out against racist police and asylum

NWASDG, 17-11-2007 20:43

Omid Karimi is a Kurdish asylum seeker from Iran. The Kurds are an oppressed minority in Iran. Britain deported 315 Iranians between January and June 2007. Thousands of asylum seekers are left to rot, slowly starving to death on electronic vouchers; many are not allowed to work. Many are forced to live in appalling conditions including in the worst housing, while the British Home Office's NASS-contracted accommodation providers like M&Q, make huge profits every year.


The following is a letter sent to NWASDG from Omid Karimi after he was arrested one night after an argument with one of the four people squeezed into a 1-bedroom house in Longsight, a suburb of Manchester. Under these conditions conflict is inevitable. The ultimate responsibility lies with the racist British Labour government whose racist asylum laws oppress asylum seekers, disperse them to areas where they have no social support and forces them into poverty, destitution and homelessness. - NWASDG










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Protest Against Fascist BNP Conference In Blackpool Sat 17th Nov

Barry Kade, 12-11-2007 23:07

The BNP are holding a conference in Blackpool this weekend. A protest against them has been called by local anti-fascists. Your support is needed. Help us resist the poison of racism and fascism! Read more | 1 addition | 2 comments >>

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Protesters beaten & pepper sprayed at No Borders Camp - Mexicali.

Ms Luscious, 12-11-2007 19:14

Uk activists report from No Borders Camp Mexicali/Calexico.
Peaceful protesters beaten & pepper sprayed. Read more | 1 addition >>

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Calais:St Germain' s Café refuse black people

zetkin, 07-11-2007 02:39

In Calais, when you are black, some cafés can refuse you. Without rights to make that.

I am french woman. St Germain stopped me because i was with one black man. Read more | 1 comment >>

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3 November Anti-Racist Demonstration

North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, 06-11-2007 20:14

Anti-Racist campaigners take to the streets in Manchester in support of the rights of Asylum Seekers in opposition to Labour racism. Read more >>

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Defend Democratic Rights! Join the protest on 13th November!

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! / Revolutionary Communist Group North East, 06-11-2007 11:21

Following a recent lull in police harassment of political activity in Newcastle, four activists were served summonses on 2nd November to appear in court on 13th November, charged with participating in an 'illegal collection' at Grey's Monument on 7th May. Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/ The Revolutionary Communist Group will be organising a protest outside the courts against these attacks on our democratic rights, and welcomes all groups and individuals who want grassroots political activity to continue to join us. Read more >>

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Northern Assurance super-glued shut as protest against Brook House

No Borders, 02-11-2007 10:13

The locks of the Northern Assurance Building were super-glued shut in the early hours of Friday, 2 November. This was an act of sabotage against FD Tamesis, housed in this building, intended to highlight the company's involvement in the construction of what will be the UK's largest immigrant deportation centre, Brook House near Gatwick Airport. 2 November is a national day of action against Brook House, called by the No Borders network: across the country, companies with a hand in this new deportation centre will be targeted, pressuring them to end their involvement. Read more >>

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Food Not Bombs on 3rd November

Food Not Bombs Manchester, 29-10-2007 15:09

Food not Bombs will be supporting the anti racism march in Whitworth Park on the 3rd of November with hot free food. Anyone who wants to help cooking, serving, collecting food donations etc, please get in touch on:

07906614815 or  temporaryFNBmanchester@hotmail.co.uk Read more >>

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Fatma Navruz's life is in danger as Britain attempts deportation to Turkey! Octo

NWASDG, 20-10-2007 22:10

FATMA NAVRUZ MUST STAY!
19 October 2007


Message from the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum (NNRF)

Contact: Konnie Lloyd for more info:  konnie2006@talktalk.net>





'Ms Navruz is a 54-year-old woman who is suffering from considerable problems of ill-health. She has no less than three different appointments scheduled for this week at the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham – one for an endoscopy, another in the department of Thoracic medicine, and another with her psychiatrist. She has further appointments pending because she is suffering severe pain requiring treatment for pain relief and physiotherapy. Ms Navruz's consultant states that she is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and depression, which they say is in keeping with her accounts of torture, rape and imprisonment in her country. She is also suffering from psychosis. The fact that Ms Navruz has not been able to prove torture and rape at the hands of the Turkish authorities for her political actions in support of working people in Turkey and the Kurds in particular is not a surprise to anyone who has worked with survivors of both torture and rape – two of the most heinous and hidden acts of terror to the individual.



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The Uthayakumar family must stay! Stop deporting Tamils to Sri Lanka!

NWASDG, 20-10-2007 21:45

On 5 September immigration authorities snatched a Tamil Sri Lankan family from South Benwell, Newcastle. The immigration police pounded at the door of the Uthayakumar family home at 7am and demanded access. The family were informed that they faced deportation and were made to pack their belongings under the supervision of immigration officials from North Shields Immigration Reporting Centre. The family is suspected by the Sri Lankan government of having connections to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and would be in extreme danger if deported.

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Refugee From Iran Snatched By Police!

NWASDG, 20-10-2007 21:34

At 4pm today - 20th October 2007 An activist from North West Asylum Seeker Defense Groupt was arrested. Faraydun Abdulazzadah was travelling on bus number 192 when he was arrested supposedly for a ticket offense. Faraydun is a political refugee from Iran and if forced to return would be at risk of imprisonment or execution as he is a communist.
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Anti-racism march! Defend all asylum seekers! 3 Nov 2007

NWASDG, 15-10-2007 17:15

There will be an anti-racism march in Manchester on Saturday 3 November 2007, in defence of all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants and all victims of racism. Read more >>

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Dignity Not Detention: the 3 Day march

Dignity Not Detention, 12-10-2007 15:23

Asylum seekers, refugees, trade unionists and supporters from all over South Yorkshire will march from the Home Office in Sheffield (at noon on Friday to Lindholme Detention centre near Doncaster between 26-28th October
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Food Not Bombs Manchester - events this week.....

Food Not Bombs Manchester, 12-10-2007 09:41

After the success of our first event Food Not Bombs Manchester will be out across the city this week at the below venues. Come say hi.... Read more >>

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First ever Food Not Bombs Manchester - This Sunday 7th October

Food Not Bombs Manchester, 05-10-2007 11:22

Free food and a hot serving of grassroots activism... 4pm, corner of Wilmslow Road/Platt Lane, next to Platt Fields Park. Read more | 2 comments >>

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