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.

New Calais documentaries

May 6, 2010

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.

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Hurriya - fundraiser Saturday 1st May

March 18, 2010

Saturday 1st May

Vegan food and films from 7pm, music starts at 8pm.

Fundraiser for the London Detainee Solidarity Network and the Stop Deportation Network.

@ 195 Mare Street, Hackney E8 3QE

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Protest outside Yarl's Wood, Sunday 14th March

March 10, 2010

Yarl's Wood Migrant Solidarity are calling a demonstration at midday on Sunday, 14 March in solidarity with the women on hunger strike in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre. We join these women in their protest against the detention of migrants. We support their bravery and we oppose immigration laws that restrict the freedom of movement of those in need.

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Solidarity with Yarl's Wood hunger strikers - meeting 11/03/10

February 28, 2010

Thursday 11th March, 7pm
SOAS, Russell Square. (Room TBC but please meet on the steps outside the main building just before 7pm)

Meeting to discuss support and solidarity demos for women in Yarl's Wood on hunger strike since Friday 5th February.

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Support Yarl's Wood hunger strikers! Holloway demo 03/03/10

February 26, 2010

Holloway Prison, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU
Wednesday 3rd March, 6.30pm-7.30pm

Demo at Holloway Prison in support of the three hunger strikers imprisoned there as well as the twenty women still refusing food at Yarl's Wood Detention Centre.

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Solidarity protest outside Yarl's Wood today

February 21, 2010

Anti-detention campaigners held a protest at Yarl's Wood immigration
prison in Bedfordshire today (Sunday 21st February) in solidarity with women detainees who have been on hunger strike since 5th February.

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Yarl's Wood solidarity demo, Friday 26th Feb

February 19, 2010

Over 50 women have been on hunger strike at Yarls Wood Immigration Prison near Bedford since Friday 5th February, demanding their immediate release from indefinite detention.

Serco, the company that runs Yarl's Wood on behalf of the UK Border Agency, has tried to brutally repress the hunger strike, most notably on Monday 8th February when Serco guards locked the hunger strikers in a corridor for 8 hours without access to water or toilet facilities.

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