Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

UK Migration Newswire Archive

Full article

Westside Gathering, 16th & 17th January 2010

12-01-2010 19:04

Drax 2006 - Where "Westside" Started - but where will it all end?
The weekend will see activists from Bristol, Bath and hopefully South Wales converge upon Bath to draw together experiences of the G20, Climate Camps this summer (Cymru, Scotland and London), the Calais camp, ongoing No Borders activity, Co-Mutiny, the Ratcliffe swoop and recent events in Copenhagen as a basis for 'where do we go from here?'

Westside may have formed at Cimate Camp, but their activities are ot restricted that process, and last year, in fact, focussed elsewhere.

Full article

Around the Campaigns Tuesday 12th January 2009

12-01-2010 12:26

Lydia Besong Released From Yarl's Wood

Fresh claim for asylum to be considered by UKBA

Supporters of Lydia Besong, the writer and human rights activist threatened with deportation from the UK, have welcomed the UK Border Agency's decision to release her and to consider a fresh claim for asylum.

Full article

Anti-Deportation Training - Newcastle 30 Jan

12-01-2010 00:40

National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns training for groups and individuals involved in resisting deportations. It will include an overview of the asylum system and comprehensive training on how to plan, launch and run an effective anti-deportation campaign.

Full article | 3 additions | 4 comments

Homeless "Charity" deports Polish Rough sleepers to freeze to their deaths

11-01-2010 23:05

Is your charitable donation helping a final solution to homelessness?

Full article

Demonstration at Mercure Hotel, Crawley

11-01-2010 20:23

Arora Hotels International Ltd. are trying to gain permission to turn the Mercure Hotel, Crawley in yet another example of cynical, profit-driven opportunism of big companies wanting a slice of the lucrative detention market. This is the latest in a number of protests against the planned conversion.

Full article | 17 comments

Camden Fascist Pub Gloucester Arms plays "Skrewdriver" nazi music all night

11-01-2010 20:07

The Gloucester Arms Pub on Leighton Road Camden has been the subject of protests following the decision by landlord John Coyne to let neo nazi group the Jobbik party hold meetings there. The Jobbik Party are closely linked to the BNP and have armed members and ties to Serbian paramilitaries and UDA. Locals have complained of hardcore porn and skinhead music played until 6 - 7am.

Full article | 1 comment

Revolt in Rosarno - immigrants rise up

09-01-2010 10:53

AFRICAN immigrants have risen up in southern Italy in two days of full-out rioting.

Full article

Calais update - ongoing solidarity work

08-01-2010 12:26

After lots of support over xmas and new year, it's all still going on in Calais. If you're interested in coming over to do some solidarity work, get together with some mates and plan a few days over here. You can call the office to see what's needed. A trip over in February or March would be just as valuable as next week.

Full article

Immigration Control [Is there a whiff of fascism in the air?]

08-01-2010 08:30

Immigration Control [Is there a whiff of fascism in the air?]
A very disturbing debate took place in the house of commons on Wednesday of this week. It follows the publication of a 'Declaration on Immigration' by the 'unbalanced' [as in mentally unbalanced] UK Parliamentary cross-party group on 'balanced' migration, who are calling for a very severe restriction on all immigration to the UK. Lord Carey, former Archbishop of Canterbury is one of the group!
Full debate: House of Commons / 6 Jan 2010 : Column 100WH
 http://tinyurl.com/yearz8c

Declaration on Immigration '70 million is too many'
 http://www.balancedmigration.com/pressreleases/PressrelDeclarationonImmigration(Rev2).pdf

Full article

Hamburg - Demo by immigration detention centers NYE - Knastdemo Neues Jahr (2009

07-01-2010 23:50

No borders! No person is illegal - Kein mensch ist illegal! Short clip of new year's solidarity demonstration in front of an immigration center in Hamburg into 2010.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hadQJzQBqU

Full article

Are we in the UK all equal or are some more equal than others?

07-01-2010 08:42

Do you think, those seeking/refused asylum, those without papers and those destitute in the UK, have 'Equality & Human Rights' comparable with UK Nationals?

Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment

Can You Hear Us? Women’s uncensored experiences of detention and deportation

05-01-2010 18:45

Come hear how despite being: isolated, denied access to dependable lawyers, subjected to slave labour and negligent healthcare, abused and assaulted during deportations, and terrorised by the threat of being sent back . . . women continue to organise creatively in defence of themselves and their children.

Full article

Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, December 2009

05-01-2010 07:16

Six actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in December 2009, according to CrisisWatch

Deteriorated Situations: Guinea, Iran, Madagascar, Nepal, Nigeria, Yemen

Download the full report:
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine114/CrisisWatch77.pdf

Full article | 1 comment

Appeal for Calais and update

04-01-2010 10:09

More people are urgently needed in Calais to do solidarity work with migrants dealing with daily police repression.

Full article

NCADC ~ 2009 in retrospect

04-01-2010 09:53

It's not the 'size of the community in the fight' but the 'size of the fight in the community' that stops deportations

Full article | 5 comments

Calais: A Resume of Repression

02-01-2010 15:27


The following is a partial summary of incidents of police harassment against migrants in Calais in December alone, all of which are designed to make life unbearable for those seeking entry to the UK.

Full article | 2 comments

Demonstrate Tuesday 5 Jan against Britain's racist immigration laws

31-12-2009 17:01

Start 2010 by showing opposition to Britain's racist immigration laws! In the run-up to the next election as all parties compete for the crown of most 'tough' (ie racist) party, show the current Labour government and all contenders to succeed it that there is support for migrant workers and asylum seekers!

Full article

Third attempt to remove Yves Yitgna Njitchoua

29-12-2009 08:21

Yves Yitgna Njitchoua
Yves Yitgna Njitchoua a national of Cameroon and resident of Manchester, is currently detained in Brookhouse IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Monday 4th January 2010 at 19:00.

Full article | 1 addition

White Christmas operation in Coccaglio 2009

28-12-2009 11:46

Christmas 2009
The ''White Christmas'' operation in Coccaglio, aiming the expulsion of all ''illegals'' in the town, is not only a sign of utter racism and xenophobia, it also reveals the inhuman Italian asylumpolicy, which has hardened this year
Therefore it is of great importance to undertake action against as well the White Christmas operation as Italian asylumpolicy in general
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.