Borders / Migration

from london noborders, updated 17 March 2009: "London NoBorders, Campaign Against Immigration Controls, SOAS Detainee Support Group and Campaign To Stop Arbitrary Detention at Yarl’s Wood call:

For An End to Immigration Detention - Saturday 21st March 2009. Gather 11.30am at Bedford Town Centre to march from Bedford to Yarl’s Wood Detention Centre, to demonstrate between 12.30 and 2pm +++ Benefit Night: Friday 20th March 2009, 5pm onwards @ Ramparts Social Centre, Rampart Street, London E1 2LA - nearest tube Whitechapel..." more

from london noborders, updated 17 March 2009: "Groups from France and the UK including people involved in the UK NoBorders Network agreed in a recent meeting in Lille to organise a transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, from 23-29th June 2009, including a transnational demonstration on Saturday 27th June in Calais..." more

from everyonegroup, 9 January 2009: "At the present time, in spite of all the EU directives, resolutions, warnings, conferences and the inspection carried out by a delegation from the European Commission, no measures, no projects, no real social integration programmes have been undertaken to help the Roma people in Italy. Unfortunately the right-wing and far-right wing Italian Government is finding no opposition in this critical field from their political opponents... These measures are also making life very difficult for the Roma with Italian citizenship or those who took refuge in Italy in the 1970s and 1990s..." more

from nbne, 9 January 2009: "Following on from the gathering hosted by No Borders North East in November. 2008, the Bristol No Borders group are hosting the next network-wide No Borders Gathering, on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd February 2009 at St. Werburgh’s Community Centre in Bristol..." more

from occupiedlondon, 17 December 2008: "The high school students are making history and leave it to the others to write it up and to classify it ideologically. The streets, the incentive, the passion belongs to them. In the framework of this wider mobilisation, with the student demonstrations being its steam-engine, there is a mass participation of the second generation of migrants and many refugees also. The refugees come to the streets in small numbers, with limited organisation, with the spontaneity and impetus describing their mobilisation. Right now, they are the most militant part of the foreigners living in Greece. Either way, they have very little to lose..." more

from various sources, updated 18 December 2008: London solidarity demonstration, Saturday 20 December 2008, 2pm, Wood Green Library, N22. Demonstration against police brutality and state terrorism :: In combination with the commemoration of the 1999 massacre of political prisoners in the Turkish prisons... Organised by Greek, Turkish, Kurdish, British in solidarity with the revolt in Greece..." This Saturday, 20 December 2008: the call out states: "Friday 12/12, the assembly of the occupied Athens Polytechnic decided to make a callout for European and global-wide actions of resistance in the memory of all assassinated youth, migrants and all those who were struggling against the lackeys of the state Saturday 20.12.2008..." more

from caic, updated 5 December 2008: On Monday 8th December 2008 at 11.00am there will be a noisy demo outside Amey PLC's Corporate HQ in Oxford (address below) called by the Campaign Against Immigration Controls, and The No Borders Network. In September this year 5 migrant cleaners were sacked by Amey Plc for "bringing the company into disrepute"... How were they damaging the company image? By belonging to a Trade Union and telling other staff at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in London where they work what was happening to them. Since them they have had their appeal against dismissal rejected... more

from imc-uk, 28 November 2008: 16 days (and counting…) of hunger strike…a life of struggle… - “…this will be a crack on the Fortress Europe walls…”... Two hunger-strikers are taken to hospital due to hypoglycemic and low blood pressure shocks. After receiving first-aid, they joined again the rest hunger-strikers, refusing to give up the hunger-strike... more

from email, 24 November 2008: Source: Inter Press Service :: BRUSSELS, Nov 13 (IPS) - A political ideology based on the desire to exterminate Roma gypsies is emerging in parts of Europe, a Brussels conference has been told. Following a number of violent attacks on Roma by skinheads and other extremists in Bulgaria, it was announced during August 2007 that the far-right National Guard party was being established. more

from email via noborders london, updated 25 November 2008: Biometric ID cards will come into force for non-EU students and spouses from 25th November 2008 and will be issued from offices in Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Liverpool, and Sheffield. We will be holding a protest outside the Home Office building (Lunar House) in Croydon, London and hope for protests outside each of the other offices on that day. more

from noborderswales, 18 November 2008: Announcing a series of actions targetting those who exploit and deport migrants, including a phone blockade of BMI, a solidarity with migrant workers at Amey & a Tesco picket: 20th, 21st & 22nd November 2008 more

from corpwatch, 11 November 2008: "The Home Office has introduced new biometric ID cards for two categories of foreign nationals. Amid fierce opposition, the controversial scheme will initially only apply to non-EU students and marriage visa holders, with the first voluntary ID cards to be available to British citizens from 2009..." more

from various sources, updated 15 November 2008: Protesters were demonstrating against France's minister of immigration, integration and national identity Brice Hortefeux's tough stance on expelling illegal immigrants back to their homelands. Anarchists torched cars and smashed shop windows, as armed police were pelted with rocks and other missiles. more

from IRR, 7 November 2008: A Kenyan asylum seeker held at Yarl's Wood immigration removal centre had a vital self-help guide confiscated by staff days before a crucial deadline for her case. more