Today's NoBorders Carnival marked the end of the week-long Noborders Convergence that has taken place in London this week. Around 200 people followed the call to gather at the steps of St Pauls at midday. After a few speeches the crowd took to the streets marching in a loud demonstration towards central London, and ending in Piccadilly Circus at around 3pm where a 'Reclaim Love' event was taking p…

Here's a short clip of today's Noborders Carnival part of the international NoBorders Convergence that has taken place in London this week. Today's carnival, which was called as the final event of the convergence, gathered around 200 people on the steps of St Pauls at midday. After a few speeches the crowd took to the streets marching in a loud demonstration towards central London, and ending in P…

No Borders activists are currently occupying the headquarters of Britain's largest children charity, demanding that it “quits the child detention business”. They have asked to speak to the Chief Exec but she has so far refused. There is a solidarity demo outside with around 50 people, including a samba band. 

The latest protest at Barnardo's offices in Barkingside, Essex, started at 1pm in a…

The Harmondswoth detainees have all been freed on bail.

At 10am this morning supporters gathered outside Uxbridge court, where the 12 detainees, still not free, where to have their first hearing. Currently in court, the protesters where met by high numbers of police and one of them was arrested for refusing to extingish a cigarette. The repression is harsh.

Eleven No Borders activists arrested on Tuesday during a detention centre blockade are being held by police for a second night. They are due to appear at Uxbridge magistrates court at 10am this morning, charged with causing 'serious disruption to the life of the community' under Section 14 of the Public Order Act.



* Supporters have called for a solidarity demonstration at the court.

* No Borders activists block both exits of Europe's largest immigration prison using heavy concrete blocks and a scaffolding tripod

* Dozens of migrants held at the prison were due to be deported to Ghana on a specially chartered flight at midnight

* Blockade concludes with kettle and arrests [report]

The No Borders Convergence, on this week (13-18 February), is a week of discussion and action to bring together all those fighting for free movement and against border controls. It starts off with three days (Monday 13 to Wednesday 15) of workshops and open discussion hosted by students at *Goldsmiths College in New Cross, South London*. Refugees from different communities, together with a…

On this show we've got all sorts of stuff and things from here there and

everywhere. We'll be hearing from La Quadrature du Net about ACTA, censorship

and the enclosure of the internet commons.



We'll be hearing from a member of the drive cooperative, discussing London's

newest housing coop. A person from No Borders will be in tonight too, talking

to us about the No Borders Convergence from 13-18…

Croydon NoBorders is calling for a demo in Haywards Heath on Saturday 30th July to protest against a new detention centre for children and families which is due to open in late summer at nearby Pease Pottage.

Please join us on Saturday 30th July with banners, placards and instrument to call for an end to detention and deportation. Gather at Muster Green park in Haywards Heath at 1pm.

Anti-deportation campaigners from No Borders, Stop Deportation and other groups blockaded Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres in a last-minute attempt to stop the forcible deportation of Iraqi refugees to Baghdad on a specially chartered flight scheduled to leave London on Tuesday evening. Read report ...

Report and pics on this protest: http://london.indymedia.org/events/7308

Hospital users, workers, trade unionists and migrants’ rights activists took part in a demonstration of solidarity with 72 disappeared migrant workers, who had been part of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals’ ancillary staff.

The activists believe that the disappeared workers were either arrested or deported after a rec…

Following a call from London NoBorders, a second 'Life Is Too Short To Be Controlled' [pics 1 | 2 | 3 | vids 1 | 2 | 3] demonstration started in Piccadilly Circus this afternoon. Around sixty people gathered to "connect two locations in London which are symbolic places of both the border regime and surveillance". After a couple of speeches, people started marching through central London street…

Related reports from IMC-London wires:

• Life is too short ... one demo is not enough!
• Piccadilly Circus: CCTV controlling your life
• Life is too short - pics and report
• Demo Connecting Border Regime & Surveillance: pics

Videos:

• St Pancras out of control
• Life Is Too Short: Demo Arrives in St.Pancras
• IMC-London interview to No Borders
• Trailer for "Life is too short - part II"

The demonstration eventually made it to Kings Cross, and it quickly moved into the Eurostar terminal. It kept moving around the terminal until it eventually made its way to the check-in desks and border control. A group of people managed to go throgh the check in and into the border area, which provoked a quick, and quite freaked-out, response from the security personnel. After a while people …

Some pics of the march today. Weather was nice, cops hardly any hassle until the end. Passers by were happy to take the flyers, and some cheering in support. Starting at Piccadilly Circus we went the long way round to St Pancras, where the march didn't stop, but went right on. Some folks even got through the border at the Eurostar check in, which seemed to puzzle some and freak out others.

Investigation of the street level environment of the spooky CCTV centre below Piccadilly Circus, on occasion of the second Life is too short to be controlled demo by NoBorders.

Lovely.

While the migration regime is fortifying itself and setting up rings of defence around European wealth, inner control is tightening to keep public order, at a time where the nation state already seems to be a dead corpse. And with an economy which exploits the most virtual property, the need to control even the remotest parts of people's lives is increasing. At the beginning of the year we we…

London Indymedia got London No Borders to tell us about the up coming action 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' at last weekends Anarchist Bookfair. 'Life Is Too Short to be Controlled' takes place this Saturday afternoon, 30th October, at Picadilly Circus at 3pm.

Read the Part 1's report here

Life is too short to be controlled - part 2.

30 October 2010, meet 3pm Piccadilly Circus/Corner Coventry Street.

http://london.noborders.org.uk/lifestooshort

Against the mass arrest + torture of No Boborders activists during the Bxl Camp

Last week in Brussels, the No Border camp was marked by widespread arbitrary arrests and police violence, including scenes of torture and sexual abuses in the police stations. These violences started from Sunday 26 and took a great extent from Wednesday 29 and continued until the end of the camp. There were over 500 a…

From the 6th to the 12th September 2010 a radical festival of music, art, action, performance and play was held in

Calais, Northern France.

The port of Calais is home to several hundred migrants from Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq and many other places, trying to cross the channel to the UK. These migrants are the target of brutal repression by the French state, subject to regular police raids, arrests, …

The Ratstar, 298 Camberwell Road, Camberwell SE5

meet 3pm Piccadilly Circus/Corner Coventry Street.

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel E1 1ES

At Africa house, in Calais (France), another day starts with a violent raid. The CRS were pretty violent to NoBorders activists that were trying to block them at least for enough time to let the migrants run away. CRS were violent also to the migrants inside, for example grabbing one man by his neck, throwing him to the floor and kicking and stamping on him five or six times just for asking if…

everyday a cop in Calais wakes up with a mission: making migrants life even more misarable than what it already is...

WHY?

On Saturday 6th February the Kronstadt Hangar was opened for the public. In the afternoon, despite a heavy police presence migrants successfully entered the newly-opened space at the invitation of NoBorders activists. The hangar is intended to be a space for information-sharing, debate and practical solidarity.

Together, around 100 activists and migrants broke through police lines chanting “F…

Saturday 23rd January 2010, about two hundred people took the streets of London in protest at ever more draconian immigration controls and this countries pervasive surveillance culture.

This 16 minute video contains speeches and footage from the march. (320x240 mpeg4 ~64MB)

Further Indymedia coverage of the demo is available here:

• Peter Marshal photos - https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/445…

On Saturday, 23 January 2010, demonstrators took the streets of central London as part of the 'Life's too short to be controlled' demonstration called by No Borders. This article contains links to audio from the demonstration, including the speeches made at the start of the demonstration, in front of the entrance to St Pancras Station and at the end, near the Eros statue in Picadilly.