Audio from No Borders' "Life's too short" demo

Icon_article Published: January 24, 2010 16:46 by dissident chickpea |

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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.

Here is a detailed description of the audio...

St Pancras Speech 1:
A call for activists and students to take action against "Point based immigration".

St Pancras Speech 2:
London volunteer from 'Women Against Rape' gives a report back from the parliamentary meeting "Can you hear us?: Women's experiences of detention and deportation".

St Pancras Speech 3:
London No Borders activist gives context to the significance of the St Pancras border, with a mention of the repression and dangers faced by migrants trying to come to the UK.

St Pancras Speech 4:
No Borders activist, former refugee and anti-authoritarian, translates words from a migrant who managed to come to the UK despite great odds.

St Pancras Speech 5:
Juliet from 'Crossroads Women's Centre' who helps with the mother's campaign of the 'All African Women's Group', speaking on behalf of women migrants who were forced to flea their countries without their children for safety reasons and the problems these women face in getting asylum and reuniting their families.

Audio from march through the streets, including Samba beats and the 'Bullshit' chant.

Picadilly Speech 1:
London No Borders activist gives context to end location of the march, at Picadilly, where demonstrators stood above the Westminster council CCTV bunker, highlighting the expansion of the surveillance state with a call to take action against this form of control Picadilly.

Picadilly Speech 2:
Charlie from the 'Love Police' with a plea to the people of London to reject the normalisation of CCTV surveillance and for people to fight for their right to not be controlled by goverments.

Picadilly Speech 3:
A plea to take action against the installation of CCTV cameras at the Centerpoint charity.

Picadilly Speech 4:
Demonstrator from 'Fight Racism Fight Imperialism' applauds the marchers for taking over the streets of London to raise the issues of migration, deportation, borders, surveillance and control.

Picadilly Speech 5:
Katarina from Latin America Workers Association speaking of immigration raids linking workers struggles and soldarity action to repression of migrants.