SATURDAY 11th AUGUST, 7pm til late
Benefit gig for the GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP (19th-24th September 2007)
At CROSS KINGS, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX
Featuring:
* PJ and Gaby (Acoustic/Folk/Punk) http://myspace.com/pjandgaby
* Naomi Hates Humans (Acoustic/Experimental/Folk)http://myspace.com/naomihateshumans
Plus more acts to be confirmed.....
http://www.noborders.org.uk
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Monday, July 23, 2007
Tamils on hunger strike in Harmondsworth
From Sri Lankan Daily Mirror, 23 July 2007:
Twenty nine Sri Lankan Tamil nationals are on hunger strike at a controversial detention centre in London opposing moves by the British authorities to deport them back to Sri Lanka tomorrow, sources from London told the Daily Mirror. Earlier on July 9, two Tamil Jaffna residents, Subramaniam Aloysias Jude Christy and Kobalasamy Illayarajah who had sought refugee status in Britain after fleeing the conflict in the North started a fast unto death as their applications had been turned down and they were subsequently placed at the Harmondsworth refugee detention centre in London. However by Saturday a further 27 Sri Lankan Tamils at the same detention centre joined in the strike further complicating the issue for the British authorities.
When The Daily Mirror contacted the Harmondsworth refugee detention centre yesterday afternoon to get further details on the strike we were redirected to the Britain home office which was closed yesterday being a Sunday. "The two Sri Lankans who started the hunger strike on July 9 have not had water or food and their health is deteriorating. They are insisting they will not return to Sri Lanka because of the conflict and fear of maybe being arrested by Sri Lankan authorities once they return," a civilian source in London told The Daily Mirror after speaking to Mr. Jude Christy via telephone.
Relatives and friends are permitted to speak to and even visit the detainees at the centre. The two Sri Lankan Tamils were earlier scheduled to be deported on June 24 but after stiff opposition from the two, the deportation was postponed for tomorrow, it is learnt. The Daily Mirror also learns that another Tamil refugee who was deported from London last week was arrested in Sri Lanka and is being detained in Negombo. CID sources at the Katunayake international airport confirmed to the Daily Mirror that the immigrant was arrested on the 18th of this month and placed under detention in Negombo.
The Harmondsworth Detention Centre has been the sight of several protest campaigns against the detention process carried out by the British government. The London based rights group, 'No Borders' in a statement following a protest late last year said the British immigration policies violated the basic principles of the Refugee Convention which Britain had signed.
"By ignoring the Convention, the Government refuses to protect people's lives that are in danger, whether politically or economically. Migrants have been degraded and abused and are being treated as criminals, when their only 'crime' is to come to the UK on their own terms. The UK government's immigration policies favour locking up people without trial. Refugees are treated like 'terrorists' and perceived as a threat to national security and are held in detention for many months," it said.
Twenty nine Sri Lankan Tamil nationals are on hunger strike at a controversial detention centre in London opposing moves by the British authorities to deport them back to Sri Lanka tomorrow, sources from London told the Daily Mirror. Earlier on July 9, two Tamil Jaffna residents, Subramaniam Aloysias Jude Christy and Kobalasamy Illayarajah who had sought refugee status in Britain after fleeing the conflict in the North started a fast unto death as their applications had been turned down and they were subsequently placed at the Harmondsworth refugee detention centre in London. However by Saturday a further 27 Sri Lankan Tamils at the same detention centre joined in the strike further complicating the issue for the British authorities.
When The Daily Mirror contacted the Harmondsworth refugee detention centre yesterday afternoon to get further details on the strike we were redirected to the Britain home office which was closed yesterday being a Sunday. "The two Sri Lankans who started the hunger strike on July 9 have not had water or food and their health is deteriorating. They are insisting they will not return to Sri Lanka because of the conflict and fear of maybe being arrested by Sri Lankan authorities once they return," a civilian source in London told The Daily Mirror after speaking to Mr. Jude Christy via telephone.
Relatives and friends are permitted to speak to and even visit the detainees at the centre. The two Sri Lankan Tamils were earlier scheduled to be deported on June 24 but after stiff opposition from the two, the deportation was postponed for tomorrow, it is learnt. The Daily Mirror also learns that another Tamil refugee who was deported from London last week was arrested in Sri Lanka and is being detained in Negombo. CID sources at the Katunayake international airport confirmed to the Daily Mirror that the immigrant was arrested on the 18th of this month and placed under detention in Negombo.
The Harmondsworth Detention Centre has been the sight of several protest campaigns against the detention process carried out by the British government. The London based rights group, 'No Borders' in a statement following a protest late last year said the British immigration policies violated the basic principles of the Refugee Convention which Britain had signed.
"By ignoring the Convention, the Government refuses to protect people's lives that are in danger, whether politically or economically. Migrants have been degraded and abused and are being treated as criminals, when their only 'crime' is to come to the UK on their own terms. The UK government's immigration policies favour locking up people without trial. Refugees are treated like 'terrorists' and perceived as a threat to national security and are held in detention for many months," it said.
Union Conference against Immigration Controls
Following the successful conference in Liverpool at the end of March this year, attended by over 100 trades unionists, the Finsbury Park Branch of the RMT have made a call to have a similar conference in London. We are told that migrants undermine the wages and conditions of workers. But it is immigration controls which actually attack us all. The invention of 'illegal' people, the creation of workers with unequal rights: these leave workers vulnerable to super-exploitation, slavery and act as a discipline against the whole working class. This is all about to get even worse with new legislation making employers regularly check the papers of migrant workers, marking them out for special treatment. This discriminatory treatment creates a climate of fear and division in the workforce. The issues taken up by such a conference will include:
- TU Organisation, right to work and right to equality of pay/conditionsirrespective of status
- How trades union can help fight the three Ds facing refugees and migrants many of whom will be our members - deportation, detentions and destitution.
- Defiance not Compliance: caring workers are asked to shop and cut off benefits to migrants; pilots, drivers asked to deport them. How can the unions stop this?
- How immigration controls undermine the conditions of all workers
- The proposed 'amnesty' for migrants
- How do we stop migrants being singled out by employers to produce papers?
Come to the planning meeting Wednesday 25th July, 7pm at the Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, N7
- TU Organisation, right to work and right to equality of pay/conditionsirrespective of status
- How trades union can help fight the three Ds facing refugees and migrants many of whom will be our members - deportation, detentions and destitution.
- Defiance not Compliance: caring workers are asked to shop and cut off benefits to migrants; pilots, drivers asked to deport them. How can the unions stop this?
- How immigration controls undermine the conditions of all workers
- The proposed 'amnesty' for migrants
- How do we stop migrants being singled out by employers to produce papers?
Come to the planning meeting Wednesday 25th July, 7pm at the Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, N7
Contact: No One is Illegal, c/o Bolton Socialist Club, 16 WoodStreet, Bolton BL1 1DY. Web: www.noii.org.uk, e-mail: info@noii.org.uk .
Friday, July 20, 2007
No Borders at Chat's Palace
A reminder of the No Borders benefit this Saturday at Chat's Palace. See http://www.noborders.org.uk/ forthe latest information on the Gatwick No Borders Camp.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Communities of Resistance film night
No Borders and Detainee Support are supporting a night of debate and movies at 8.00 PM at RampART , 15 Rampart Street, E1 2LA on Thursday 12th July.
Last monthin the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES took place in St.Denis, Paris. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements, including Ahmad Rahman from of the Black Panthers of Detroit and Cilius Victor, member of a Police watchdog in London against racial abuse.
Films will include:
- Douce France - La saga du mouvement 'Beru' (Mogniss H. Abdallah, 1993)
- Britain's Black Legacy
- Germany, the Other Story
-Le Syndrôme de Hoyerswerda" (Reynald Bertrand , 2002) - The story of the Movement of Immigration and the Banlieus, including the riots in the suburbs between 2001 & 2002.
CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES, 22nd to 24th June, 2007, Paris
Our estates have become an easy target for media-hungry politicians and their sound-bite slurs: the 'lost territories of the Republic' are 'no-go areas' populated by 'irresponsible parents' and people drifting into 'Mafia-like' or 'radical Islamic' activities. The most stigmatised are the youth. They have become scapegoats for society's ills. It costs little to mouth civic values while violently exposing the 'scum' and the 'savages' to public condemnation.The suburbs have been made into a special law and order issue, in the hands of the police and courts. And yet in all the revolts we have seen, from the Minguettes (1981) to Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), from Mantes-la-Jolie (1991) to Sartrouville (1991), from Dammarie-les-Lys (1997) to Toulouse (1998), from Lille (2000) to Clichy sous Bois (2005), the message has been clear:
We've had enough of unpunished police murders and brutality, of police checks based merely on skin colour, enough of 'sink' schools, of unsanitary housing, of systematic unemployment and underemployment, enough of prisons, of humiliation and oppression! We have become almost immune to the silence of millions of men and women suffering daily from acts of social violence, much more devastating than a burning car. It is our right to revolt against the social order.
Last monthin the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES took place in St.Denis, Paris. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements, including Ahmad Rahman from of the Black Panthers of Detroit and Cilius Victor, member of a Police watchdog in London against racial abuse.
Films will include:
- Douce France - La saga du mouvement 'Beru' (Mogniss H. Abdallah, 1993)
- Britain's Black Legacy
- Germany, the Other Story
-Le Syndrôme de Hoyerswerda" (Reynald Bertrand , 2002) - The story of the Movement of Immigration and the Banlieus, including the riots in the suburbs between 2001 & 2002.
CALL for the NATIONAL SOCIAL FORUM of the BANLIEUES, 22nd to 24th June, 2007, Paris
Our estates have become an easy target for media-hungry politicians and their sound-bite slurs: the 'lost territories of the Republic' are 'no-go areas' populated by 'irresponsible parents' and people drifting into 'Mafia-like' or 'radical Islamic' activities. The most stigmatised are the youth. They have become scapegoats for society's ills. It costs little to mouth civic values while violently exposing the 'scum' and the 'savages' to public condemnation.The suburbs have been made into a special law and order issue, in the hands of the police and courts. And yet in all the revolts we have seen, from the Minguettes (1981) to Vaulx-en-Velin (1990), from Mantes-la-Jolie (1991) to Sartrouville (1991), from Dammarie-les-Lys (1997) to Toulouse (1998), from Lille (2000) to Clichy sous Bois (2005), the message has been clear:
We've had enough of unpunished police murders and brutality, of police checks based merely on skin colour, enough of 'sink' schools, of unsanitary housing, of systematic unemployment and underemployment, enough of prisons, of humiliation and oppression! We have become almost immune to the silence of millions of men and women suffering daily from acts of social violence, much more devastating than a burning car. It is our right to revolt against the social order.
Sunday, July 08, 2007
PUBLIC MEETING & BENEFIT PARTY FOR GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP, SATURDAY 21st JULY FROM 3pm
SATURDAY 21st JULY
3pm-midnight
Chat's Palace Community Arts Centre
42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London E9
Nearest station Homerton Silverlink, buses 242, 276, S2 and W15
A day & night of discussions, films, food and live music in solidarity with
migrants & refugees.
3pm : 'Underground Londoners' - Film and talk from London's tube cleaners,
many of whom are undocumented migrant workers, about their campaign for a
living wage.
4pm: Detainee Self-help Support Project: An insight into the UK immigration
detention, struggles from the inside, and support and solidarity from the
outside, by ex-detained Kenyan asylum seeker and activist George Mwangi.
5pm: Sink or Swim: Climate change and environmental refugees
The small pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking - year by year, the low lying
island is being washed away by rising seas caused by climate change.
Eventually, the entire nation of Tuvalu will become refugees.
Over half of the world's refugees are displaced for environmental reasons -
from floods caused by the felling of forests, to oil spills and
desertification. How the Global North consumes the world's resources and the
waste and climate change this causes creates a huge number of refugees, many
of whom we then detain and deport for seeking a better life. This workshop
will explore the connections between climate change and migration, and the
state's response.
5.30pm: PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THE GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP, to take place from
19th-24th September 2007. Public meeting about the camp, and the campaign
against the new asylum detention centre which is being built at Gatwick.
This will be followed by a short film about a previous No Border Camp in
Woomera (Australia).
7pm-midnight: BENEFIT PARTY - food & music
Main stage: music from
Spanner (ska/punk)
52 Commercial Road (post rock)
plus more tbc
Room 2: Live acoustic music from:
Ruth Theodore
Grizla
Plus more tbc
Entry:
Afternoon - free/donation
7pm-midnight - £5 waged/ £3 unwaged/ free to asylum seekers
Money raised will go to GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP - 19-24 September 2007
Part of a campaign to stop the new Gatwick detention centre.
www.noborders.org.uk
3pm-midnight
Chat's Palace Community Arts Centre
42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London E9
Nearest station Homerton Silverlink, buses 242, 276, S2 and W15
A day & night of discussions, films, food and live music in solidarity with
migrants & refugees.
3pm : 'Underground Londoners' - Film and talk from London's tube cleaners,
many of whom are undocumented migrant workers, about their campaign for a
living wage.
4pm: Detainee Self-help Support Project: An insight into the UK immigration
detention, struggles from the inside, and support and solidarity from the
outside, by ex-detained Kenyan asylum seeker and activist George Mwangi.
5pm: Sink or Swim: Climate change and environmental refugees
The small pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking - year by year, the low lying
island is being washed away by rising seas caused by climate change.
Eventually, the entire nation of Tuvalu will become refugees.
Over half of the world's refugees are displaced for environmental reasons -
from floods caused by the felling of forests, to oil spills and
desertification. How the Global North consumes the world's resources and the
waste and climate change this causes creates a huge number of refugees, many
of whom we then detain and deport for seeking a better life. This workshop
will explore the connections between climate change and migration, and the
state's response.
5.30pm: PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THE GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP, to take place from
19th-24th September 2007. Public meeting about the camp, and the campaign
against the new asylum detention centre which is being built at Gatwick.
This will be followed by a short film about a previous No Border Camp in
Woomera (Australia).
7pm-midnight: BENEFIT PARTY - food & music
Main stage: music from
Spanner (ska/punk)
52 Commercial Road (post rock)
plus more tbc
Room 2: Live acoustic music from:
Ruth Theodore
Grizla
Plus more tbc
Entry:
Afternoon - free/donation
7pm-midnight - £5 waged/ £3 unwaged/ free to asylum seekers
Money raised will go to GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP - 19-24 September 2007
Part of a campaign to stop the new Gatwick detention centre.
www.noborders.org.uk
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Donate to the Gatwick No Border Camp!
We are in serious need of funds to make the camp happen! If you are able to make a donation, however small, please write a cheque to "No Borders Brighton" and send to No Borders Brighton, PO Box 74, Brighton BN1 4ZQ as soon as possible. Thanks!
www.noborders.org.uk
www.noborders.org.uk
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Next Gatwick Camp planning meeting
Sunday 22nd July from midday at the Rampart Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA
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