UK Migration Newswire Archive
Protesters picket Serco in solidarity with Yarl's Wood hunger strikers
20-06-2009 15:47
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/432625.html) and to express their anger at the way Serco security guards have dealt with detainees. The office was closed and no police turned up for the entire two hours that the protest lasted for. Leaflets were distributed and loud chants were shouted via a loudspeaker. The walls and floor surrounding the office were also 'decorated' with chalk to tell Serco staff and neighbours that Serco's business (i.e. locking up and abusing innocent people) is not acceptable.
Workers' Fightback: Update 7
19-06-2009 23:26
Mass hunger strike continues at Yarl’s Wood
19-06-2009 14:44
Today is the 5th day of the hunger strike but the prisoners have not heard any news from the Immigration Officers. more than 40 women detained in the Families Section in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have decided to maintain the hunger strike until their demands are met.
North West barrio at Calais No Borders Camp
19-06-2009 11:27
After our info events in Manchester and Hebden Bridge, about 20 people from the Manchester area will travel to the No Borders Camp in Calais next week. A minibus will leave early on Monday 22 June (there are still seats available) and others will make their own way there.THERE ARE STILL SEATS AVAILABLE - GET IN TOUCH IF YOU WANT A LIFT
Yarl's Wood hunger strike continues
19-06-2009 09:48
After being unable to speak to an Immigration Officer, Juliette Umoru, Lorraine and more than 40 women detained in the Families Section in Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre have decided to maintain the hunger strike until their demands are met.No Angel at Celebrating Sanctuary this year
18-06-2009 16:36
The Angel Group, the UK's biggest private asylum accommodation provider, has apparently pulled out of sponsoring this year's Celebrating Sanctuary, Corporate Watch has learnt. The 'festival' is Birmingham's version of the national Refugee Week, which is celebrated between 14th and 20th June. Since 2001, Angel had been one of the main sponsors of the event until campaigners started to protest about Celebrating Sanctuary being funded by 'such dodgy asylum profiteers'.
Anti-OSCE meeting in Corfu, 26-28 June 2009
18-06-2009 14:05
We call to Corfu, 27-28 June 2009, all people who resist and rise up against fortress Europe.More French Scare Stories
18-06-2009 14:04
In another move designed to increase fear amongst Calaisiens, the local préfet Pierre de Bousquet has prohibited the local sale of petrol and gas canisters for the duration of the Camp. Clearly he thinks No Borders is a terrorist organisation. If so, then why isn't he arresting the camp organisers under the catch-all French Anti-Terrorist law of “criminal association in relation to a terrorist undertaking"? More likely he thinks that by denying campers gas to cook with he will starve them out of town. But then again, if they have no petrol to put in the vehicles they arrived in, how will they get away?
Sustained Media Campaign Against The Calais No Border Camp
18-06-2009 14:01
The location for the Calais No Border Camp and the Camp programme have both been released. This is against the backdrop of a concerted media campaign to demonise No Borders activists as baby-eating monsters who, as one Daily Mail journalist fantasied, have "pledged to help illegal migrants 'tear down border controls and make for Britain'."Report of TCAR protest against immigration prisons outside Government Offices No
17-06-2009 22:16
SOAS occupation ends with (partial) success
17-06-2009 18:01
In the signed document reproduced below, the management promises to “review” the immigration raid and “discuss” the possibility of bringing cleaning services in-house and the “health and safety issues” relating to immigration raids on campus. There were, however, two more concrete commitments: first, to write to the Home Office requesting the return of the deported cleaners and granting exceptional leave to remain to those who are still detained or have been forced into hiding; and second, that no action will be taken against those involved in the protest.
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Yarl's Wood Hunger Strikers Attacked
17-06-2009 14:54
Today migrants support workers were witness to an attack on the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers.How do we end immigration controls? Conference
17-06-2009 13:27
An event to discuss ideas and plan for action to tackle racism and work for a society where no one is illegalMass protest to save the Tamils Sat 20th June
17-06-2009 13:08
Tens of thousands killed this year alone. Over 13,000 disappeared from the internment camps.Demonstration to end destitution of refused asylum seekers in UK
17-06-2009 13:00
Thousands of asylum seekers in the UK who have had their claims to asylum refused find themselves trapped in utter destitution.Calais No Borders Camp - Site and Program Announced
17-06-2009 12:37
Yarl's Wood IRC: Mothers & Fathers on Hunger Strike
17-06-2009 10:52
Once again there is unrest in a UK Immigration Removal CentreThird Attempt to Remove Deji Ogundimu
17-06-2009 10:47
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Pictures from the SOAS occupation - 16th June
17-06-2009 00:20
