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Demo at St Pancras station for Migrants in Calais

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Demonstration held to highlight migrant situation in Calais.

: Shift: “Overpopulation”: letting capitalism ...

“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…

Protest Against Destruction of Calais 'Jungles'

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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…

Protest Against Destruction of Calais Jungles

July 20, 2009 12:30

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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…

Blockade of the closed detention centre of Lesquin

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...

Yarl's Wood protest against Nigeria charter flight

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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

No borders lesvos info night/cafe

July 09, 2009 20:30

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15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)

: SchNEWS: Rumble in the Jungle

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…

Reclaim the Future 5 (RTF5)

September 05, 2009 12:00

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A liberated venue somewhere in London

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LATEST: Reclaim The Future 5 is GO

Call 07758119655 or 07729178836 tomorrow for location

Sat 5 sept...workshops start at 1pm then party til dawn

http://rts.gn.apc.org for latest info

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Venue announced:

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)

London E1 4PE (map)
oppo…

SOAS cleaners update

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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…

No Border Folk - acoustic fundraising night

August 05, 2009 19:30

The Dog House, 293 Kennington Road, SE11 6BY

Support for Yarls Wood Protesters

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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.

Calais No Border Camp and Demo Pics and Reports

Here there are links to two reports and first hand accounts published in IMC-UK of the Calais No Border Camp 2009, and the Transnational Demonstration for The Freedom of Movement, that took place in Calais city on Satuday 27 June.

 



E15 Motorway Blocked By No Borders Campers – Pics

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A group No Borders protesters blocked the E15 motorway south bound carriageway for a short time before they were forced off the road back into the camp.

Last tickets to the Calais Noborder Camp

Coach to the Noborder campin calais, leaving Friday 26th 9am from London, returning Sunday evening.

Day of Action with Detained Migrants

June 27, 2009 09:00

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,…

Refugee Week - London events

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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.

Yarl's Wood Soli - Speaker 1

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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 …

Yarl's Wood Soli - more graffitti

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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 …

Yarl's Wood Soli - Speaker 2

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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 …

Yarl's Wood Soli - Chanting

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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 …

Yarl's Wood Soli - Graffitti outside Serco office

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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 …

Yarl's Wood Hunger Strike Solidarity Picket

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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…

SOAS occupation ends with (partial) success

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…

London No Borders meeting

June 25, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

London No Borders meeting

July 09, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

London No Borders meeting

July 23, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

London No Borders meeting

August 06, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

London No Borders meeting

August 20, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

London No Borders meeting

September 03, 2009 19:00

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES