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50 face imminent deportation to Iraq

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000

More than fifty men from northern Iraq have been given deportation tickets telling them they will be removed to Erbil in the Kurdistan Regional Government controlled area in northern Iraq. The 50 are currently being held in immigration prisons in Heathrow, Gatwick and Doncaster. They told the detainees that they will be removed at 6pm tomorrow morning (17 March). The tickets state that they will be: ‘removed no sooner than 7 days and no later than 22 days from the date of this notice’.

The Situation in Greece

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24:00 +0000

This is best viewed at http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/the-situation-in-greece/ and will be updated from there. Tensions rise once again in the streets of Greece’s major cities. Radicals and Anarchists join workers from around the country in voicing dissent. Airports, hospitals and other public services have shut down for the day as the Greek Government attempt to impose harsh new austerity measures.

Protest at Harmondsworth, Sat 13 March

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:00:27 +0000

Saturday 13th March at Harmondsworth Demonstrate outside Harmondsworth immigration prison, Heathrow 12 noon – 1pm Detainee Solidarity London is calling for a demo this Saturday at Harmondsworth in solidarity with the 55 detainees on hunger strike since last week. At any one time, over 2500 people are in immigration detention in the UK. Some have been detained [...]

Demo at WH Tours, Saturday 27th March

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:25:25 +0000

STOP DANGEROUS DRIVERS! NO MORE WH DEPORTATION TOURS! Public demo at WH Tours offices, Kelvin Way, Crawley Saturday, 27th March 2010 Meet 11am at Crawley train station. Bring banners and instruments. WH Tours is a coach company based in Crawley, near Gatwick airport. Part of the company's business is leisure: coach excursions, sightseeing tours and so on. Another part, however, is much more sinister: the company provides coaches for transporting detained migrants facing deportation from immigration prisons to airports to be deported on commercial or specially chartered flights. read more

Low-paid porters at Gatwick stay solid

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:50:18 +0000

By Mick Duncan About 70 porters at the second biggest airport in the UK staged a solid two-day strike over Christmas. Action is now on hold while uncertainty rains over who will be holding the contract beyond the next few weeks. The workers currently work for a the facilities giant Interserve. Interserve’s last posted profits were £88 [...]

WCA engages with Grimshaw workers

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:56:50 +0000

Grimshaw Architects is the prestigious architecture firm who brought you Waterloo’s Eurostar Terminal and the Eden Project. However, Grimshaw also has a long history with BAA and is now designing the Third Runway at Heathrow. Grimshaw also has other BAA contracts on the go, which are rapidly undermining the company’s green credentials. So now that the [...]