Last week started with a picket outside the French Consulate on Tuesday 9th, called by London and Brighton NoBorders groups to protest against the repression of the Kronstadt Hangar Project in Calais by the French authorities the previous Sunday. A series of protests were held outside SERCO offices in Holborn in solidarity with the hunger strike taking place at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Ce…

As planned, about 200 of us gathered on Saturday 21st March 2009 at Bedford Town Centre, to march from Bedford to Yarl's Wood Detention Centre, to demonstrate between 12.30 and 2pm, for an end to Immigration Detention.

The protesters were calling for an end to indefinite immigration detention of women, men and children. About 25,000 people - including 2,000 children, are detained indefinitely eac…