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CATEGORIES:migration,repression,solidarity
DESCRIPTION:<p><br /><strong>Open-air rally </strong>Called by Fight Raci
 sm! Fight Imperialism! - all welcome&nbsp\; 12-3pm</p>\n<p><strong><br /
 >Please bring speeches\, music\, chants\, and literature. Add your voice
  and help us speak out against racism.<br /><br /></strong>&nbsp\;<br />
 &lsquo\;The message is clear - whether you're a visa overstayer\, a fore
 ign criminal or a failed asylum seeker\, the UK Border Agency is determi
 ned to track you down and remove you from Britain.' Home Secretary Jacqu
 i Smith\, 18 March 2009<br /><br />Racism is the form which national opp
 ression takes within an imperialist country like Britain. Imperialist na
 tions brutally exploit and impoverish oppressed nations\, justifying the
 ir plunder and wars on the basis that people in these countries are infe
 rior or have brought their oppression on themselves. They then use immig
 ration laws to keep out people fleeing from the resulting war and povert
 y. The British working class is encouraged to see immigrants as the caus
 e of its problems rather than capitalism. State racism and divide-and-ru
 le government tactics are creating a fertile recruiting ground for overt
 ly racist parties like the British National Party. <br /><br />As Britai
 n's capitalist crisis increases its hold\, the Labour government is step
 ping up its offensive against migrants and state racism is on the rise.<
 /p>\n<ul>\n<li>Immigration detention capacity has increased from just 25
 0 spaces in 1993 to 3\,038 spaces with plans in the pipeline to increase
  the detention estate by 60% by 2012. Foreign nationals in criminal pris
 ons are currently being moved into designated &lsquo\;ghetto' prisons. <
 /li>\n<li>In November 2008\, Immigration Minister Phil Woolas boasted th
 at the government is deporting immigrants at a rate of one every eight m
 inutes. It is making increasing use of charter flight mass deportations.
  This year has seen charter flight mass deportations to Jamaica\, Iraq\,
  Afghanistan\, Cameroon and Nigeria.</li>\n<li>Ten years after the McPhe
 rson Inquiry into the death of Stephen Lawrence branded the Metropolitan
  Police &lsquo\;institutionally racist'\, black people are still seven t
 imes more likely to be stopped and searched than white people are.</li>\
 n</ul>\n<p>&bull\; Anti-terrorism laws are being indiscriminately used t
 o round up Muslim and Asian people and criminalise their communities.</p
 >\n<p>So just as the Home Secretary's message is clear\, ours must be to
 o. <br /><br />NO DETENTION! NO DEPORTATIONS! NO TO STATE RACISM! <br />
 <br />SUPPORT ASYLUM SEEKERS AND MIGRANT WORKERS!</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<
 p>&nbsp\;</p>
URL:http://london.indymedia.org/events/3011
SUMMARY:Speak Out Against Racism and Deportations
LOCATION:<p>Next to Brixton tube station</p>
COMMENT:More info at http://london.indymedia.org
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