An emergency support demo for Campsfield protesters, where there are currently up to 60 people on hunger strike (nearly a third of all of those inside), has been called by Campaign to Close Campsfield this evening Tuesday 12th August at 6:00 pm.
Location of demo: Campsfield House IRC Langford Lane Kidlington Oxfordshire OX5 1RE
No Borders Nottingham sends solidarity greetings and hopes that the action will achieve some change, with the closing of Campsfield as just the start!
Read more info about the hunger strike started by 13 Iraqi Kurdish detainees against their continued detention and threatened deportation to Iraq, which is now supported by many others who are incarcerated in Campsfield, on BBC Oxfordshire website… Asylum seekers on hunger strike (12 August 2008): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7556290.stm
Amdani Juma removal date has been set for Wed 4th June on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 (Terminal 4, Heathrow) which is the usual flight used by government for deportations to Africa.
Following Jane Mary Mutetsi’s detention earlier this week, our other well known friend & NNRF volunteer Amdani Juma, who has been in the UK for many years as a survivor from Burundi but whose appeal for Indefinite Leave to Remain was turned down by the Home Office on 5th Dec, has now himself been detained whilst reporting at Loughborough reporting centre today. He has already been moved to Campsfield Detention Centre in Oxfordshire. Amdani’s case has previously been reported on the No Borders Nottingham website and elsewhere: http://www.nottsrefugeeforum.org.uk/first.htm#amdani
Nottingham University’s Hicham Yezza is due for removal on flight BA894 from Heathrow T5, destination Algiers, at 9.45am this Sunday, June 1st. A model letter for protesting to British Airways demanding they refuse to carry him is available at: http://freehichamyezza.wordpress.com/. It can be modified as you wish. Address/fax details follow the letter. BA can refuse to carry Hicham. They have a choice. They must be made to take the right decision.
Background
“The eastward expansion of the European Union has resulted in moving the walls of “Fortress Europe” to the Western border of Ukraine.
The Ukrainian region of Transcarpatia, of which the biggest cities are Uzhgorod and Mukachevo, has become a new borderline, with increasing militarization and major concentration of detention camps for refugees from the countries of Global South and former USSR, who try to escape war, totalitarianism or misery to the European Union countries. It is hard to find any “open” information about the conditions in the majority of these camps.”
No Border response to this
“Call out for No Border Camp in Ukraine 2007
The camp will take place from the 11th to the 20th of August 2007 in the main region of transit and labor migration in Ukraine: Transcarpathia.”
For great reports and pics from Nottingham’s Mayday events of 1st & 3rd May, featuring the No Borders Nottingham banner on the Saturday parade through the city centre, please see Notts Indymedia coverage .
Download the latest No Borders network newsletter, no.4 [attachment=14], contents as follows:
* Removal centre detainees fight back at Harmondsworth and Yarl’s Wood – 1 to 5 & 10 April 2008 * Zimbabwe demonstration by asylum seekers in association with No Borders Nottingham – 29th March 2008 * No Borders South Wales picket Border and Immigration Agency again, in Cardiff – 12 April 2008 * Manchester No Borders demo for ‘free spaces’ – 12 April 2008 * Newcastle dawn raid protesters on trial – 27 March 2008 * Angel Group housing provider targeted in Leeds – 11 February 2008 * Leeds demo outside Home Office (Waterside Court) opposing detention & deportations – 27 Match 2008
Thanks to Manchester No Borders for producing the bulletin on behalf of the network!
Crossing Borders! is an initiative of the frassanito network that aims to foster migration-related networking and practical struggles. Previous issues have covered conflicts in western and eastern Europe, Africa and the USA. This one speaks about womenʼs migration, a crucial perspective for understanding transnational movements and how labour is organised globally. It also introduces Fight the Monster! Against Border Regime: Transnationalization now!, a nine month initiative that started in February. Continue reading ‘Crossing Borders’ transnational newsletter→
Download the latest newsletter [attachment=10]; contents as follows:
* Report from the No Borders network gathering in Manchester 16-17 February 08 * GEO protest, Reading – 22 February 08 * No Borders South Wales picket Home Office in Cardiff – 12 February 08 * Harmondsworth 4 acquitted ! – 22 February 2008 * No Borders activist found guilty – 28 January 2008 * Bristol No Borders prevent dawn raids, again – 12 February 2008
For freedom of movement, Against nationhood and prevention of migration by nation states, Welcoming asylum seekers and migrant workers, Against capitalist exploitation
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