WOMBLES - Borders / Migration

Soldarity demo at Harmondsworth this Saturday, 13 March 2010

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:43 +0000

from email, 11 March 2010: "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 for months, others for years. We call for the immediate closure of all detention centres and stand in solidarity with all those in Harmondsworth, Yarl's Wood and elsewhere resisting this barbaric practice..." more

Detainee hunger strikes and arrests in Italy

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:51:34 +0000

from imc-uk, 9 March 2010: "Hunger strike in detention centre in Italy; people involved in the grassroots campaign against detention and racist laws were arrested on 23rd February... On the 1st of March, as large demonstrations and numerous workers' strikes were taking place in various cities in Italy in occasion of "the day without migrants" (the first strike of migrant labour in Italy), protests were started also by the migrants in the detention centres ("the Centre for Identification and Explusion that detain undocumented migrants in Italy)..." more

London No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity Benefit, 26 February 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:40:41 +0000

from email, 21 February 2010: Benefit gig for No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity at 195 Mare Street, Hackney. 6pm onwards: Food / Film / Info, 8pm - 2am: Music, including - Captain of the Rant (A'capella / Punk / Lyrical) - 52 Commercial Road (experimental / post-rock) - Rabies Babies (punk / rock / thrash) - Jakal (punk / reggae / ska) - Deferred Sucess (acoustic / folk / punk) - Plus more to be confirmed! Come along top get more info No Borders / Calais Migrant Solidarity..." more

On the appeal trial against the Lecce anarchists

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:55:42 +0000

from turbellaria, 21 February 2010: "The sentence of appeal was to be finally pronounced on February 10 2010, but it has once again been postponed following the decision of the jury to examine further ‘evidence’ provided by the public prosecutor. The intention to charge the anarchists involved in this shameful story of repression with yet more serious charges is evident, and it is also clear how the local powerful are determined to silence the entire matter as well as the violence and the abuse inflicted on immigrants by the operators of the Regina Pacis concentration camp..." more

Greece, Petrou Ralli: Welcome to Hell

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:59:39 +0000

from occupied london, 11 February 2010: "Testimony from the hell of Petrou Ralli by comrades that were detained in the prison wing for migrant women on P. Ralli St. after the occupation of the Keratsini Town Hall in solidarity to the 22 persecuted in the “Resalto” social space on 5th December 2009)... 'The scene is the same as if it were a high security prison; the difference is that no one has committed any “crime” here. The cameras that are everywhere in the cells, apart from the toilets, are an example of how human dignity is violated in here. The detainees are under 24/7 surveillance, they can’t get a moment of privacy and no personal data protection policy is in effect'..." more

Calais Migrant Solidarity press release on Kronstadt Hangar police raid

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:06:43 +0000

from london noborders, 7 February 2010: "Under instruction from the town authorities, the elite French CRS riot police today forcibly evicted the new Calais migrant centre - called Kronstadt Hangar - by smashing down the front doors, less than 24 hours after migrants and No Borders activists pushed through police lines to occupy the building, which has been legally rented by No Borders and SoS Soutien aux Sans Papiers..." more

Refugee camps: ‘Factories for producing mental illness’

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:37:33 +0000

from greenleft, 1 February 2010: "On January 25 youth mental health expert Patrick McGorry said refugee detention centres were “factories for producing mental illness”. McGorry is the head of the Orygen Research Centre and Headspace, a youth mental illness network. He worked with refugees for more than 20 years and said many refugees had experienced trauma and torture before fleeing to seek refuge in a safe country. He said many already had mental health problems. “And what we have been doing here until very recently, and even now is actually adding to those mental health problems”, he said. "It's an absolute disaster that we must not repeat." more

Lecce, Italy: the bad example of an anti-slavery struggle in Salento

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:07:21 +0000

from infoshop, 27 January 2010: "Next February 10, a month after the unrest in Rosarno that showed the whole world the conditions under which poor foreigners live in Italy (exploited, hounded, rejected, deported), the appeal trial in Lecce of some anarchists who fought against modern slave masters a few years ago will come to an end..." more

London: No borders, no nations! Life is too short to be controlled: 23 January 2010

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:31:00 +0000

from noborders london, updated 18 January 2010: "No borders, no nations! A day out of control in London, Saturday 23rd January 2010. 2pm St. Pancras International -> 4.30pm Piccadilly Circus. While the migration regime is fortifying itself and setting up rings of defence around European wealth, inner control is tightening to keep public order, at a time where the nation state already seems to be a dead corpse. On Saturday 23rd January 2010 there will be two demonstrations in London..." more

Italy: FdCA statement on Rosarno - White hoods and 'omertà'

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:10:10 +0000

from ainfos, 12 January 2010: "What happened in Rosarno has without doubt come as a slap in the face to all those who believe in and fight for a different world where sides based on race, language and religion face up to each other are just an ugly memory, and to all those who see the unity of all workers, wherever they are from, as the only force able to build a better society of free equals.

The violence of the State and of these new Calabrian Ku Klux Klans armed with rifles and iron bars, with more than a hint of agricultural 'ndrangheta, towards the community of immigrants is an unfortunate reminder of the stories of Uncle Tom's Cabin..." more

Rosarno: Racist attack provokes riot in southern italian town

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:40:30 +0000

from nbb, 8 January 2010: "A racist attack on African migrant farm workers in the Southern Italian region of Calabria by a gang of local youths armed with air rifles has provoked a series of disturbances in the town of Rosarno. Last night hundreds of cars were damaged and set on fire as the migrants sought revenge for the attack that left several of them injured..." more

Burn the borders: Freedom for the accused of the fire of Vincennes, France

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:52:40 +0000

from no-racism.net, 8 January 2010: "January 25th, 26th and 27th 2010: trial of the revolt that set the detention centre of Vincennes on fire. Action Week, January 16th to 24th 2010. The revolt, which led to the fire that destroyed the largest prison for foreigners in France, is a concrete and historical response to the existence of detention centres and to the whole of the policy of control of the migratory flows..." more

The EU's murderous borders: four poles of suffering and denial of rights

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:30:47 +0000

from bristol no borders, 4 January 2010: "A report published by Migreurop (a Euro-African network of 40 organisations from 13 countries working on issues of immigration policy, externalisation and their consequences within and beyond the EU's borders) in October 2009 paints a vivid picture of the effects of the EU's migration policies by focussing on three regions in which a number of common denominators are identified in spite of the significant difference between them (the Calais region and the north of France, the Greek-Turkish border and the Oujda region in eastern Morocco)..." more

Brook House: Conditions at G4S immigration prison 'worse and worse'

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:13:13 +0000

via irr, 16 December 2009: "Since it opened earlier this year, the UK's newest and biggest immigration prison has barely had a day without trouble. However, Corporate Watch has learnt that things have become "much worse" lately, both for the detainees and for their visitors. Meanwhile, the G4S management is apparently recruiting new security guards as staff shortages have led many detainees to repeatedly miss doctors' and court appointments..." more

EU defence ambitions for 2020: "Barrier operations shielding the global rich from the tensions and problems of the poor"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:17:23 +0000

from indymedia ireland, updated 9 December 2009: "The document covers long term EU security strategy, including the problems of "hierarchical class society", with the "elite" of the world on one side, and the so-called "bottom billion" on the other. To avoid "global systemic collapse", the document suggests that the "full spectrum of high intensity combat" to be used to protect what is called "globalisers" from "localisers"... more