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Balaclava! VMC Broadsheet Issue 18
By Vancouver Media Co-op - August 31, 2010 This issue covers the demo in solidarity with Tamil refugees, follows the boycott by Boycott Israeli Apartheid Committee against the Zim shipping line, looks at the protest against local mining company Pacific Rim, and takes an in-depth look at Short Term Incentives for Rental as used by developers to maximize profit at the cost of the public. read more more >>
Seminar for medico-legal report writers
A seminar offering practical advice on writing medico-legal reports for immigration matters. more >>
"Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews BADIL director Ingrid Jaradat Gassner on the organization's work and the new book. more >>
Release Detained Tamil Refugees: Let Them Free, Let Them Stay!
[ September 11, 2010; 1:30 pm; ] - CORRECTED location below, please resend this notice if you have previously forwarded it - For almost one month now, 492 Tamil refugees have been detained by Canadian authorities. Families have been seperated, and women and children - including young children - are being incarcerated in Burnaby. Join No One is Illegal-Vancouver at the Burnaby detention [...] more >>
GrowHeathrow eviction reprieved - great community support at court
Dozens turned out from Sipson, Harmondsworth and Harlington today in a show of support for Grow Heathrow, the heir to Transition Heathrow which reclaimed the neglected Berkeley Nurseries in order to grow fresh food for the surrounding area. more >>
One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington.
From south sound indymedia One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington. One of them being Wells Fargo the main investor in GEO Group and the Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant detention center (prison) that sits comfortably in the Tacoma tide flats. “NO PRISONS (A)” was spray painted on the side of the building and 3 windows where smashed. Bank of America also had an ATM card slot glued. Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers (including Merrlin Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp. In solidarity with all imprisoned, in all prisons, And for the destruction of the prison world. - Anarchists read more more >>
Tony Blair’s book: God, public services and being a liberal
Nicholas Watt writes in the Guardian about Tony Blair’s memoir: Blair dismisses objections to ID cards on civil liberties grounds as “absurd”. The cards were necessary; they would help deal with illegal immigration and aid transactions that were the “warp and woof” of life. “I could envisage that it might take time. The civil liberties argument [...] more >>
Mexico After the Massacre of the 24th August
On the 26th of August 72 murdered migrants from Central & South America were discovered after the lone survivor alerted marines at a naval checkpoint. The state investigator, Roberto Suarez, (an establishment lawyer from Mexico’s elite) ‘dissapaeared’ after being appointed to look into the deaths. His body was found two days later. more >>
Tacoma, WA - Anarchists attack two banks
social rupture30/08/2010 - The communique goes down like this:"One bank was attacked and another sabotaged in Tacoma, Washington.One of them being Wells Fargo the main investor in GEO Group and the Northwest Detention Center, an immigrant detention center(prison) that sits comfortably in the Tacoma tide flats. “NO PRISONS (A)” was spray painted on the side of the building and 3 windows were smashed. Bank of America also had an ATM card slotglued.Bank of America is one of the three joint financial advisers (including Merrlin Lynch and Barclays Int.) for GEO Group Corp.In solidarity with all imprisoned, in all prisons,And for the destruction of the prison world.- Anarchists" more >>
Gradisca, Italy - 3 military police wounded in escape attempt from detention centre
informa-azione(ANSA) 29/08/2010 - TRIESTE - A new escape attempt, unsuccessful, last night in the middle of identification and deportation from Gradisca d'Isonzo. Three military wounded.Around 21:30 am thirty detainees were up on the roof of the centre of the structure trying to climb over the railings, but the intervention of the military surveillance foiled the attempt.It resulted in a brief scuffle, with three soldiers slightly injured by blunt objects used by immigrants.[No mention of the condition of the prisoners] more >>
Brussels 2010 : A magnificent opportunity...
Some pratical informations and a text (in English, French, German and - soon - Spanish and Dutch) about migration, capitalism, social revolts and the end September week in Brussels. https://enjoybrussels.noblogs.org/english-4/ To forward, print and broadcast more >>
Darwin - Fire, prisoners on the roof at Australian immigration centre
AFP29 August 2010 - SYDNEY - Masked men, some armed with long poles, are standing on the roof of an Australian immigration centre in which a fire broke out Sunday, reports said.One section of the Darwin Immigration Detention Centre, which houses up to 500 asylum-seekers, had been on fire but the flames had now been put out, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said.The immigration department refused to give details but said they were working with emergency services to deal with the incident."There’s an ongoing incident at the centre," a spokesman told AFP.Reports said about a dozen men were on top of the building, banging on the roof and making noise, and attempting to stop anyone climbing up to join them.The men appeared to be wearing masks while some were wearing hoods and others had paint on their faces, the ABC said.Australia has a policy of mandatory detention for boatpeople and generally processes asylum-seekers at Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean but increased numbers of arrivals has recently forced the reopening of centres on the mainland. more >>
Iraq deportations: statement from International Federation of Iraqi Refugees
31st August 2010, PRESS RELEASE Mass deportation flight to Baghdad leaving tomorrow morning A mass deportation charter flight will leave London early tomorrow morning forcibly deporting more than fifteen Iraqi and Kurdish refugees to Baghdad. Another is planned for the 6th September, deporting more than fifty people. Herman Osman, who is being held in Oakington detention [...] more >>
Brussels 2010 : A magnificent opportunity...
Some pratical informations and a text (in English, French, German and - soon - Spanish and Dutch) about migration, capitalism, social revolts and the end September week in Brussels. https://enjoybrussels.noblogs.org/english-4/ To forward, print and broadcast more >>
NCADC annual conference & AGM – London – 4th Sept 2010
The National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns 2010 conference taking place in London on Saturday 4th September is an opportunity for individuals and organisations campaigning against deportations and for migrant rights to share experiences, knowledge and expertise. The NCADC conference will take place from 10:30am to 3:30pm, with the Annual General Meeting following from 3:30pm to [...] more >>
Self-Harm in Immigration detention April/May/June 2010
Overall there were only 4 incidents of serious self-harm, more than the previous quarter and only an increase of 1, on persons on formal self-harm at risk. However there are very alarming increases at some of the individual Removal Centres. Dover IRC showed a 125% increase on incidents of Self-Harm requiring medical treatment Harmondsworth 54% , Oakington 46.5 %, Yarl's Wood 31% increase on previous quarter of persons on formal self-harm at risk. There was one death, cause as yet unknown: Eliud Nguli Nyenze born 1970 - died Oakington IRC 15th April 2010 http://tinyurl.com/23gmgrx [Self-Harm in Immigration detention - January/February/March 2010 http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Resources/self-harm2010.html Data for 2009 can be accessed here: http://www.freemovement.org.uk/Resources/self-harm2009.html more >>
Anti-Deportation conference: Saturday, London
National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns annual conference Saturday 4th September 2010 10:30am to 3:30pm Hinde Street Methodist Church, 19 Thayer Street, London W1 2QJ (nearest tube station: Bond Street or Marble Arch) more >>
Website monitoring racism and anti-immigrant press
The P r e s s A c t i o n – U K blog was set up in preparation for the No Borders “Two Days of Action Against Racist Press” (2-3 July 2010). It aims to expose racist and anti-migrant bias in mainstream media. http://pressaction.wordpress.com/ To contact the blog administrators, please email pressaction(at-)riseup.net. [...] more >>
Invasion by Birth Canal? The fourteenth amendment and its opponents’ motivations
Russell Pearce, the Arizona Senator who pushed the “Support Our Law Enforcement” immigration bill (known in Arizona as SB 1070), complains about th... more >>
Iranian hunger strikers granted asylum status
A government statement Monday said all six men, two of whom had refused food since July 19, were given political asylum. Given the imminent threat to the health and lives of Iranian asylum seekers continued hunger strike in front of the Office of the High Commissioner of UNHCR, the Ministry of Civil Protection has decided [...] more >>
Demo boosts spirits at Campsfield House
The monthly demos continue at Campsfield migration prison near Oxford. On Saturday a group gathered to show solidarity with those stuck inside the depressing place... more >>
Deportation charter flights to Iraq
Detainee support groups have been inundated with calls for help by Iraqi detainees given removal directions for 1 September and 6 September. Many have no legal representation. more >>
Project Samosa Anti Terror Arrests: A spiced up and deep fried narrative
No One is Illegal-Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories is a grassroots anti-colonial migrant justice group with leadership from members of migrant and/or racialized backgrounds. As a movement for self-determination, we challenge the racist ideology inherent to the War on Terror that is intrinsically linked to repressive immigration controls. This past week four men were arrested, three [...] more >>
Notes from the Social Forum
From NEFAC The recent U.S. Social Forum in Detroit brought together some 10-15 thousand people, a lot of them young, to have conversations and participate in workshops and assemblies devoted to changing the existing rotten capitalist system. The USSF generated much enthusiasm, for the Forum was a huge opportunity for folks for the first time to meet others who were doing similar work in other places. These projects included issues like fighting foreclosures and evictions, school and hospital closings, police brutality and prisons, fetus fanatics, immigration xenophobia, and union givebacks; and building alternative institutions, environmental justice, transformative justice, participatory cultures, radical bicycling, &c. (Altogether there were well over 1000 workshops and assemblies over four days). However, despite the excitement, the Forum fell far short of what’s necessary to address the current economic and political crisis of capitalism. Why? First, in my view the crisis is much more than an increased level of attacks on working class and oppressed people. (Capitalism attacks them every minute of every day anyway—that’s the nature of the system). Rather, it’s a crisis of the system itself, graphically illustrated less than two years ago by the collapse of such corporate giants as Bear Stearns, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, General Motors, Chrysler, Washington Mutual and others. The capitalists exposed themselves as being incapable of managing their own system. (And we don’t want to manage it, either). read more more >>
Greece sends its National Action Plan for Migration Management to the European Commission
The following text was issued as a press release by the greek ministry of public order: The Greek Ministry of Citizens Protection has drafted and sent the National Action Plan for Migration Management’ to the European Commission. The Action Plan sets out the complete strategy of the Greek government for managing migration, encompassing the screening [...] more >>
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