Upcoming Events

14 May: Film Screening Into The Fire

June :G8 2013, more info at network23.

Meetings

Our next meeting is Thursday 6th June,2013 7pm at LARC (London Action Resource Centre), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, E1 1ES.

Women's Day demo at Yarl's Wood on 5th March

February 21, 2011

Come and celebrate International Women's Day by showing solidarity with the migrant women imprisoned at Yarl's Wood!

Saturday, 5th March 2011, 1pm

@ Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, Twinwoods Road, Clapham, Bedfordshire, MK41 6HL

Directions are here. Please organise your own transport.

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Demo, revolt, fire and escape at Brussels detention centre

February 21, 2011

20 Feb 2011: Activists held a solidarity action outside the Steenockerzeel 123bis detention centre in Brussels this afternoon. Inside, prisoners took
matters into their own hands and started a revolt which led to one
escape and a wing destroyed by fire. Currently the area is shut down
by police.

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London NoBorders fundraiser 16/03/11

February 19, 2011

At the WINDMILL BRIXTON, 22 Blenheim Gardens, SW2 5BZ

Featuring:
* SHE MAKES WAR - alternative/grunge/rock
* THE PALACE OF JUSTICE - gospel/pop/surf
* LA BÊTE (acoustic set) - experimental/idol/rock

Doors 7.30pm, suggested donation: £3

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Where are the St Thomas’ disappeared? Demo 18/02/11

February 11, 2011

Where are the St Thomas’ disappeared?

Where are our workmates?

Last month 72 workers disappeared from Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals. They were part of the hospitals’ ancillary staff. They are migrants. Where did they disappear to? The economic crisis means their cheap labour is not as useful anymore – at least for the moment. So the UK Border Agency was called in to get rid of them. The NHS trust complied. The workers were either arrested or deported.

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Pease Pottage Detention Facility: Home Office Does not like Publicity

February 10, 2011

Midsussex Council has today published the planning application for the planned detention facility for families and children in Pease Pottage. However, to our surprise the council has not published the application itself, but a letter from the Home Office asking the council not to publish the application details as they are "sensitive information".

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#Operation_FirstContact

Join #Operation_FirstContact , No New Detention Centres!

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PRESS RELEASE: Arora Hotels Back in Deportation Business

January 31, 2011

( London NoBorders, Monday 31 January 2011 ) London NoBorders has received information that the hotel Company Arora International [1] has started a second attempt to make money from the Home Office's deportation business. The company plans to use the site of a residential school for children with behavioural and learning difficulties in Pease Pottage, Crawley, Sussex owned by the Arora Group
subsidiary "The Crossroads Childrens (sic) Education Services Ltd.",
into an immigration detention facility. It is the second attempt by Arora Hotels to extend their business into detention following the company's failure to gain planning permission to turn one of their hotels in Crawley into a holding facility for immigrants in 2010. [2] Crawley Forest School has been told to vacant the property by 1 April 2011.

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