Moroccans killed and injured inside Fortress Europe

A 22 year old Moroccan died on Thursday 13th May at the CIE (detention centre) in Barcelona. He had been locked up for three weeks and was facing deportation. The police have suggested it was a suicide, the group SOS Racismo are demanding an inquiry into the death.

Stall at Celebrating Sanctuary, 13 June

London NoBorders has a stall at this year's Celebrating Sanctuary event on the South Bank from 2-7pm on Sunday 13th June 2010. Come along!

Challenging deportations: past, present and future - an open discussion

Wednesday 2nd June, 7pm
LARC (London Action Resource Centre), 62 Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, E1 1ES.

The scale and brutality of forcible deportation has been steadily increasing over the past few years. London NoBorders is organising an open discussion to bring together refugees, migrants and anti-deportation campaigners and activists to share ideas and thoughts on how these deportations are being challenged and how they can be challenged more effectively.

Beckett House and Communications House demos, 1st June

As part of the European Week of Action Against The Deportation Machine, there will be demos at both London's reporting centres on Tuesday 1st June.

1pm-2pm: Communications House, 210 Old Street (off Old Street roundabout), EC1V 9BR . Picket organised by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! For more info see here.

Stop Deportation info night, Monday 17th May

When: Monday, 17th May, 8pm
Where: Pogo Cafe (76 Clarence Road, Hackney, London E5)
Vegan food, drinks, questions and answers. All welcome.

New Calais documentaries

A new 10 min documentary about what's happening to the migrants in Calais in recent months, entitled "The Hardest Winter in Calais", has been released. To watch it go here.

And go here to watch a film about a demo in Calais on 8th May.

Frontex infonight, 17th June

7pm, at The Ratstar, 298 Camberwell Road (opp. Camberwell Green), London SE5 0DL
Presented by London NoBorders and Brighton NoBorders

In the course of one decade the EU external border has shifted one hundred kilometres to the East and to the South, has deterritorialised increasingly, and its guarding is becoming a European common task. FRONTEX, the "European Agency for the management of operational cooperation at the external borders," became operative in 2005. It works with rapid speed towards a pan European model of border security.

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