One dance-step for us, one giant leap for revolution?

There we go: another fantastic
rampart/noborders joint adventure

BENEFIT PARTY

featuring:
Radio Revolucion
Critical Soundsystem
xtrats
DJ Rootsteady
Menopause
52 Commercial Road
DJ Slippahz

more acts tba ...

May 2nd 2008

from 8.30 till very late (or early) - Rampart Social Centre

Protest and Repression in Harmondsworth

At 9am on Tuesday April 1st about 300 detainees went into the exercise yard in Kalyx-run Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre near Heathrow, protesting against their administrative detention and poor conditions in the centre. They also wrote and signed a petition and sent it to the European Court of Human Rights.

On Wednesday the protest continues with over 100 detainees refusing food. The detainees complain that they are being deported without having their cases properly heard, due to time restrictions and bad legal representation, and that they are detained in the meantime, in very bad conditions, without having committed any crime. A detainee told No Borders London: "The food is disgusting. The medical facilities are appalling.....It is mental torture, people are going mad". A Refugee from Sierra Leone stated: "'We are tired of inhumane treatment. The protest started yesterday and is going to continue. It is a peaceful protest in the courtyard. "

On Saturday 5th, at 6.30 in the morning, police in riot uniform entered the detention centre and removed about 30 detainees according to witnesses. Their whereabouts are unknown so far.

The protest is the latest in a long line of protests at Harmondsworth and the UK's nine other immigration removal centres.

Detainees' Petition | Statements from Detainees | Harmondsworth revolt November 2006: 1 2 3 | Harmondsworth Trials (2008) | Hungerstrike July 2007

Conference against Immigration Controls, 29th March 2008

Saturday March 29th 2008 at the School for African and Oriental Studies, London WC1. Registration from 10.00am

Over the last three decades trade unionists have made a tremendous move forward in fighting racism. It is now seen as legitimate activity to support those under threat of deportation. However the trade union movement has not yet seen the necessity of fighting immigration controls as a whole. But controls are deliberately calculated to weaken the labour movement itself.

read more about the conference at http://29thmarch.org.uk/

Followed by LONDON CALLING! A post-conference social, from 6pm - midnight

@ The Ivy House pub, 8-10 Southampton Row, WC1B 4AE (next to Holborn tube)

Featuring acoustic political-folk sets from:
* PJ and Gaby
* Neil Sutherland
* Kelly Kemp
plus more tbc.

Free entry/donations welcome.

NO BORDERS @ Hackney Social Centre Friday 14th March

Talks, film and workshops by no borders activists, migrants and asylum seekers from 6.30 pm, followed by open discussion:
* Active solidarity
* Resisting immigration controls
* What way forward?

Bands, singers/songwriters and Djs from 9.30 pm. Confirmed so far:
* 52 Commercial Road
* Camilla Cancantata
* The Carbon Town Cryer

Vegan food by the social centre & more... donations welcome

Hackney Social Centre, 231 Lower Clapton Road,
http://hackneysocialcentre.blogspot.com/

Demonstrate outside Sodexho HQ, London

For the past month four men have been on trial at Southwark Crown Court for alleged offences during disturbances at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre in November 2006. The Support the Harmondsworth 4 Campaign is holding a demo this Friday outside the offices of Sodexho, whose subsidiary Kalyx runs Harmondsworth.

Friday 22 February 2008, 4:00 - 6:00pm
Sodexho, 25 Chapel Street, London NW1 5DH
(nearest tube: Edgware Road)

for more on the Harmondsworth 4, see here

NoBorders Benefit March 1st, Rampart Social Centre

Despite eviction threats and court dates, Rampart Social Centre is still alive! We celebrate the struggle for social spaces and for freedom of movement with another NoBorders benefit party at March 1st, refreshments, films, info stall, and - of course - music, featuring DJ Shorty, ThoughtPro, Prose, Jahnkonoo, The Leano, The Edger, x/rat's
15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA , near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd ( map )

This is also the Second National Day Of Action for Freedom for Assembly (more info here )

SUPPORT THE HARMONDSWORTH 4! Demo 7th Jan

SUPPORT THE HARMONDSWORTH 4!

Demonstrate 7 January 2008
9am onwards

at Southwark Crown Court
1 English Grounds (off Battlebridge Lane)
London SE1 2HU

(nearest tube London Bridge)

The trial of four men who were in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre the time of the protest there on 28 November 2006 will open on 7 January 2008 and a demonstration will take place at Southwark Crown Court.

The Support the Harmondsworth 4 campaign is supported by London No Borders, Barbed-Wire Britain, Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism, Crossroads Women’s Centre and the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns.

Harmondsworth is run by private company Kalyx, a subsidiary of Sodexho. The protest came the day after the publication of a damning inspection report by Chief Inspector of Prisons Anne Owers into conditions and treatment of detainees at Harmondsworth, and was directly triggered by the attempts of members of staff to prevent a group of detainees from watching a news broadcast about the report. Prison riot squads) were drafted in to batter the protesters into submission. About 50 detainees were left in a courtyard all night and others were locked in their rooms even though parts of the detention centre were on fire.

For more information email harmondsworth4@riseup.net

See updates on http://noborders.org.uk

"Fuck The Bailiffs! Smash The Borders!": a New Years Eve extravaganza of roots

RampART/No Borders London present:

"Fuck The Bailiffs! Smash The Borders!": a New Years Eve extravaganza of roots music, conscious hip-hop, mcs, djs and good times

8pm til latepm @ RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA (nearest tube: Whitechapel/Aldgate East)

Featuring:

* the leano (http://myspace.com/leanoland)
* dj captain crunch (http://myspace.com/djcaptaincrunch)
* peyoti for president (http://myspace.com/peyotiforpresident)
* park bench politics (http://myspace.com/bandem1)
* dj arrhythmia

Refreshments available. Suggested donation £5. All money raised goes to RampART and No Borders London.

Ken Loach & NoBorders in Crawley Tuesday 27th September

On Tuesday 27th November, renowned filmmaker Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Sweet Sixteen, Kes) is coming to Crawley to show and talk about his new
film "It's a Free World...". This film is a drama about a single mother and depicts the reality of living and working in the UK as a so-called illegal immigrant.

Ken will be joined in a post-film discussion by a former Tinsley House detainee and refused asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and an activist from the No Border network, which organised the protest camp near Crawley in September.

Tinsley House is an immigration detention centre for 135 people at Gatwick airport. It opened in 1996 and has 11,000 detainees going through it each year. A much larger detention centre, Brook House, is currently under construction nearby and is due to open next year.

Entry to the film and discussion is free-of-charge. All are welcome.

Time: 7pm

Venue: Tilgate Community Centre, Shackleton Rd , Crawley, RH10 5DF

Transport: From Crawley Bus Station, take bus 2 or 273 to Ashdown Shopping Centre

For more info, please contact: themovingworld@yahoo.co.uk

Defend the Harmondsworth 4!

Public meeting called by No Borders London

7pm, Tuesday 13th November, at the Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke Street, London WC1X 9HS (near Kings Cross)

In November 2006 detainees at Harmondsworth immigration detention centre protested against conditions inside the centre and their treatment by the guards. The centre was damaged and the detainees were moved to other detention centres and prisons.

Three detainees were charged with criminal damage and a further detainee was charged with conspiracy to cause criminal damage. The trial of these "Harmondsworth 4" is due to start in January and we are inviting people to a public meeting to discuss how we can support them
before,during and aft er the trial.

In previous years there have been defence campaigns following similar incidences at Campsfield and Yarls Wood. Activists from both campaigns will be speaking at the meeting about their experiences.

The meeting is supported by Barbed Wire Britain: the Network to End Migrant and Refugee Detention.

No Borders London calls for the immediate closure of all immigration detention centres and an end to deportations. We are fighting for a world without migration controls. No Borders No Nations!

E-mail: harmondsworth4@riseup.net