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Calais: Manifestation Against Police Harrassment!

18-10-2012 13:28

On Saturday 13th Oct a demonstration of 300 people took over the streets in Calais to denounce the relentless harassment and attacks against ‘exiles’ of Calais; refugees, migrants, people with and without papers.

Starting outside the clothes distribution area we took the roads through town, creating a resounding carnival of drums and shouting through the pouring rain, occupying a main roundabout in town before blaring noise outside the town hall using whatever means – drums, bins, horns, whistles, sirens and bellowing chants. Undocumented kids battled over the megaphone and a make-shift samba band got people bouncing on their feet. Banners in Arabic, Pastu, Farsi, Tigrinya, Polish, Latvian, English, French… decorated amongst the crowd and sprawled across walls and buildings as we passed. The demo ended outside Salam, the food distribution area, with more drumming, shouting and dancing in the street.

News coverage from the day:  http://nord-pas-de-calais.france3.fr/info/manifestation-pour-les-migrants-a-calais-75671801.html

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G4S complicit in torture of children - Protest outside London HQ

14-10-2012 21:58

Palestinian rights activists picketed the entrance of the security firm G4S' headquarters in London on Friday 12th October to protest at the company's complicity in the torture and caging of Palestinian children. Photo report.

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Protest of Somali refugees in Vienna

13-10-2012 13:58

Protest of Somalian Refugees in front of the Parliament in Vienna
At the same time with the refugee movements in Germany and in the Netherlands, also in Austria more and more refugees are going on the streets to protest for their rights.

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Reminder: TOMORROW: Day of action for Jimmy Mubenga, victim of G4S

11-10-2012 10:03


Friday
11:00 until 13:00
Crown Prosecution Service, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HS

The demo outside the CPS will be followed by one outside the London offices of G4S, from 2-4 at 105 Victoria Street, London SW1E 6QT.

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Day of action for Jimmy Mubenga, Fri 12 Oct

07-10-2012 10:51

Day of action for Jimmy Mubenga, victim of G4S and the deadly deportation machine - Friday, 12 October 2012

Planned protests include:

- A public demonstration outside the offices of the Crown Prosecution
Service (Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London, SE1 9HS) from 11am to
1pm.

- A public demonstration at the G4S UK & Ireland head office (105 Victoria
Street, London, SW1E 6QT) from 2 to 4pm.

- Groups and individuals around the UK and beyond are encouraged to organise their own protests and actions at relevant sites and venues. For some suggestions, see for example:
 http://mappingthecorporations.org/company/g4s
 http://london.noborders.org.uk/borderedlondon

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Würzburg->Berlin, 6-13th Oct: Protest March Call Out to All Refugees

05-10-2012 10:26

On 19th March refugees in Würzburg started a new era of protest against the inhumane laws threatening their lives. After a refugee killed himself, refugees started to leave the Lagers they are forced to live in, in order to establish action tents in many cities and take the protest to the streets and into the public. The general demands are: - Abolish all refugeecamps in germany! - Abolish the deportation laws! – Deportation is inhumane and deadly and serves only the political and economical interests of those in power. - Abolish the 'Residenzpflicht'!

The protest grew quickly; there were protestcamps in 9 cities in 4 states in total. Since the 8th September protesters started on two routes from Würzburg to Berlin to bring the protest to the central point of political responsibility for these racist and criminal laws and fight together...

From a declaration of the striking refugees: "We mobilize all over Germany to break the isolation, against deportation and Lagers, for the closure of all Heims and for the liberation from the bondage of Residenzpflicht in Germany. (…) Now it is time to stand up, we don’t want to witness the death of one of us any longer, because the inhuman treating of asylum seekers in Germany could drive anyone of us to death. (…) We quit the fixed borders and the cages built for us, because we believe that the concept of a life within Heims for asylum seekers is unfair. We exceed these borders, because we believe that this freedom is the least right of every human. And we will resist the deportation law of the government, because these laws only serve the financial and political interests of the government. It’s the right of each and every human to choose where he/she lives. Shoulder to shoulder and stronger than ever we’re doing everything in our power to reach this dream and with the support of other asylum seekers we will witness the fullfillment of our rights.“

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Calais: new evictions

27-09-2012 16:01

Evictions continue relentlessly.

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Bikes Without Borders: Cycling to Calais

27-09-2012 14:45

Urgent call out for bikes, trailers and useful tat for Calais...

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Calais: road blockade of port after mass evictions

27-09-2012 14:36

100 people block the road to the port after being evicted
September's seen another round of mass evictions in Calais - a large African squat demolished and a lot of shelters by the port evicted and destroyed. Migrants and refugees, forced back onto the street, set up camp occupying a main road into the port in protest.

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Calais: Evictions, mass arrests and a mass road blockade

26-09-2012 19:02

URGENT APPEAL: blankets, sleeping bags, tents, waterproofs, warm clothes etc. desperately needed as the police keep destroying everything. The manhunt continues, under the pouring rain. Complete list of materials needed and contacts below.

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Calais, after the jungles

22-09-2012 10:30

Living conditions: Salam
The 22nd September is the 3rd anniversary of the destruction of the ‘jungle’. Three years later, over 200 migrants are still in Calais, surviving in terrible conditions.

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Direct action gets the goods: blockade helps stop 35 people being deported

21-09-2012 15:30

srilanka blockade 9/12
A blockade of Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres on Wednesday (19 September) held up the UK Border Agency's planned deportation of Tamil refugees back to the killing fields of Sri Lanka. With one person D-locked under a deportation coach, the blockade held for 3 1/2 hours, long enough for the deporters to miss their flight slot and for 35 people to get off with legal injunctions.

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Two mass deportations to torture in Sri Lanka, 19th and 20th Sept

16-09-2012 20:54

Blockade by activists to try and stop a charter flight to Sri Lanka
At least two other deportation flights are scheduled for September 19th and 20th from the United Kingdom in Sri Lanka.

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Movement for Justice group forms inside Yarl's Wood & issue statement

16-09-2012 00:15

Despite the repression suffered by Yarl's Wood detainees who've dared protest in the past, a group of women currently detained in the centre have come together to issue the following statement.

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Calais: support comrades in Court again!

04-09-2012 12:51

People charged with outrage and organised rebellion against police in Calais face court this week...


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URGENT: Imprisoned refugees on hunger strike in Coquelles detention center

20-08-2012 16:56

15 people began a hunger strike today in the Coquelles detention center. Their demands are as follows:

- Fair treatment by PAF prison officers
- An end to racist and religious insults by PAF prison officers
- Access to medical treatment

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Support Rahim, a hunger strike asylum seeker, who sewed his lips

17-08-2012 16:03

Rahim began a hunger strike, sewing his lips since 01-Aug-2012 as a result of rejection of his asylum case. He is calling for help, support and solidarity from his tent in Rosebury Avenue, opposite Amnesty International, London WC1X 0DW.

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Open letter to Ecotricity regarding its meter reading contract with G4S

17-08-2012 13:45

Dear Ecotricity,

We are writing to you regarding your contract with G4S Utility Services, which provides you with meter reading services.

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Banner drop and police attack against activists in Calais

08-08-2012 12:42

friends of Noureddin marching down Rue Royale
On the 7th of August 2012 No Borders held a demonstration and banner drop to commemorate the death of Noureddin Mohamed

There were 5 arrests and one injury

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The trial of G4S rooftop occupiers begins

07-08-2012 23:55

The two activists who occupied the roof of G4S' HQ near Crawley for eight hours on 2nd July 2012 (see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/497595.html) appeared in court yesterday to plead guilty/not guilty to an 'aggravated trespass' charge under Section 68 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
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