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