“Overpopulation”: letting capitalism off the hook.
Published in Shift Magazine issue 4, by Manchester No Borders
From when we started being active as a No Borders group in Manchester we have been frustrated with a lack of radical analyses and critiques (anti-state, anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist, anti-discrimination etc.) of climate change. This was particularly so, as we became aware o…
Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people demonstrated outside London's French Embassy on Monday 20th to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. See full article for pics and background information. More reports 1 and 2.
More Info: Calais Migrant Solidarity | Calais No Border Camp June 2009 | Video: Afte…
Demonstration at the French Embassy in London, Monday 20th July
London NoBorders and No Borders Brighton are calling for a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on Monday 20th July to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. (see http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/196 and http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/)
Where: Fr…
Activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Lesquin (Lille, France). This action took place during the start of the No Border Camp in Calais, the 24th of June 2009, where an exagerated police force was summoned to avoid direct actions...
On 30th June 2009, anti-deportation campaigners held a demonstration outside Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire to protest against a mass deportation flight to Nigeria. Here is a short video of what happened.
For more details, see campaigners' press releases:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/433514.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/433563.html
REPORT BACK FROM THE CALAIS NO BORDERS CAMP
No Borders campaigners, calling for freedom of movement for all people and an end to migration controls, culminated their week long camp in Calais (See SchNEWS 681) with a demonstration outside the city’s main port last Saturday. Over 2,000 people took to the streets against the increasingly tight border controls at the channel crossing, the bottleneck…
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More news is emerging of just how dehumanising and brutal have been the effects of the immigration raids at SOAS organised by external contractor ISS shortly after the cleaners won union recognition and pay rises to the level of the London living wage.
One of the UNISON members picked up, who was traumatised by the clandestine nature of the raid and the appearance of around 40 officers in full bo…
The Dog House, 293 Kennington Road, SE11 6BY
Seventy people demonstrated outside Communications House in London on Saturday afternoon (27 June 2009) in a protest organised by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! in support of the SOAS workers who were detained there, the protesters at Yarls Wood and all migrants in struggle against Britain's racist immigration laws.
Coach to the Noborder campin calais, leaving Friday 26th 9am from London, returning Sunday evening.
Call to action in solidarity with detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre:
JUSTICE FOR THE SOAS 9
VICTORY TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS!
Two weeks after nine cleaners at SOAS were taken into detention, take action for justice for the SOAS 9 and in solidarity with detainees in Yarls' Wood on hunger strike for demands including: freeing children who are detained, denied adequate access to health care,…
14th - 21st June 2009 represents the ninth international Refugee Week - the run up to World Refugee Day, held on June 20th each year.
This year's Refugee Week featured a number of events, from the 'Celebrating sanctuary' festival on the South Bank, and various sporting events featuring refugee teams, to the 'Still Human, still here' demonstration on World Refugee day itself.
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.
A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in …
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.
A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in …
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.
A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in …
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.
A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in …
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.
A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in …
A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency.A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger stri…
The SOAS occupation ended at 12.30pm on Wednesday, having achieved most of what such an action could have achieved. After several rounds of intense negotiations, the occupiers and the management reached an agreement in which the management agreed to all five demands put forward by the protesters, albeit in a not-very-committing way.
See report and the signed document in which the management promi…