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Manchester: "Abolish All Immigration Prisons" - report in pictures, part 2

22-03-2009 14:27

After the visible protest outside Manchester Town Hall, the protesters take a train to the airport. At Terminal 2 they intend to highlight the existence of Pennine House, where 32 immigration detainees are held captive.

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Manchester: "Abolish All Immigration Prisons" - report in pictures, part 1

22-03-2009 14:07

On 21st March 09, Manchester No Borders and other groups held a protest in the city centre on Albert Square, before travelling to the airport. Over 70 people took part, calling for an end to immigration detention and for the closure of Pennine House.

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Demonstration @ Yarl's Wood Saturday March 21st 2009

22-03-2009 07:13

Thousands of person seeking/refused asylum/overstayers/persons 'Sans Papiers' are currently being kept in immigration prisons (AKA Immigration Removal Centres) throughout the UK. They haven't committed a crime, but they can be imprisoned indefinitely. Many of the people detained have experienced torture, and their trauma is exacerbated by being detained. Seven of the IRCs are operated for profit by private companies.

36 people have been in immigration detention for more than two years, 72 more than 18 months, 128 more than one year.

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Short video of Tinsley House blockade

21-03-2009 14:38

This is a short video of the Tinsley House blockade on 17th March 2009. It only shows the first hour or so of the action as the other tapes, along with camera, were confiscated by the police when the person filming was arrested. This tape, which only had about 10 minutes of footage, was 'smuggled' out of the police cordon before it kicked off to get it to journalists who were stuck down the road. Some of the footage was used by the BBC South East in their South East Today report - of course, without crediting us or mentioning that they were not allowed to film the protest.

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Shut down BMI Airlines – Stop Deportations!

20-03-2009 09:25

Shut down BMI Airlines

Following the successful day of action against BMI on February the 20th, No Borders South Wales are calling for another day of action to shut down BMI on the 20th of March.

That’s today folks so get ringing/faxing/emailing!!!

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Divide and Rule - "Who Cares for the White Working Class?"

17-03-2009 20:52

The Runymede Trust had just published a collection of essays, about the renewed conversation about class in the media :

“Who Cares for the White Working Class?”

Over it’s eight essays, it shows how good old divide and rule tactics are still being used by the ruling classes and their acolytes to unfortunate good effect.

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IOM - Complicit in Murder?

17-03-2009 20:48

Adam Osman Mohammed, 32, was gunned down in his home in front of his wife and four-year-old son just days after arriving in his village in south Darfur, having just returned from Britain via the IOM's "voluntary" return scheme.

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Lampedusa: a deceiving welcome for Jacques Barrot

17-03-2009 19:44

Lampedusa: Jacques Barrot the European Commissioner takes part in a sham inspection and exonerates the Italian Government for its xenophobic policies.

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Tinsley House blockade ends with arrests and deportees taken to airport

17-03-2009 18:28

Nine people have been arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) following this morning's blockade of Tinsley House immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport. Six of the arrestees had locked and glued themselves to the prison's gate to prevent Iraqi refugees from being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, later today. All nine have been taken to Crawley police station. They are expected to be released on bail later tonight or remanded overnight and taken to court tomorrow morning.

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Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

17-03-2009 07:49

Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.

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Stop the deportation of Hussein Khedri

16-03-2009 21:28

Please support our friend and stop his deportation, by signing the petition and then sending a copy of the letter to the Home Office which we'll post a copy up of very soon.

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Children in immigration prison/ Demonstrate 21st March

16-03-2009 18:56

The UK is the only EU country to indefinitely detain children.
(if you think detention is an issue like many others, please read below)

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Turin prison for migrants: searches and ropes to the neck

16-03-2009 17:25

(Latest news from a long series of protests and hunger strikes that started in Lampedusa and spread to other immigration prisons in Italy)

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Building for deportation

16-03-2009 16:31

On 18 March 2009, a new immigration removal centre, Brook House, near Gatwick airport will open, close to Tinsley House IRC

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Migrants in detention complex Schiphol Airport fight brutality, call

16-03-2009 16:23

Protests and hunger strike by migrants detained, who are calling for help.
'Outlawing human beings is not only brutally humiliating, it undermines the core values and the basic rights that any civilized society is held to respect'.

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Stop 'Double Punishment' of Foreign nationals

16-03-2009 12:24

There are approximately 12,000 foreign nationals in the UK prison system

It is a fundamental principle of UK law that a person cannot be punished twice for the same offence. If you have committed an offence that society deems a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a magistrate, judge or judge and jury, once you have completed your sentence, you are released from prison as it is deemed you have repaid your debt to society and that is the end of the matter - and for the great majority of people in the UK, it is: you can only get punished once.

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Right to Stay Now! A Documentary

15-03-2009 16:14

On 19 December 2008, approximately 150 undocumented migrants and solidarity activists occupied the Prediger Church in Zurich (Switzerland) for more than two weeks. The squatters demanded a just implementation of the hardship provision, the abolition of the prohibition of work and the legalization of the status of all undocumented migrants. Now, a 30-minute documentary about the action was published.

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"Abolish All Immigration Prisons" - full demo callout

15-03-2009 14:24

Here is the full callout for the Manchester anti-detention demo on Saturday. Meet 12noon @Town Hall, bring bike or train fare to airport. Other protests take place in Bedford and Edinburgh.

For the Manchester demo, there's also a facebook group: