Several benefit events coming up in the next few weeks at Ramparts Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart Street, London, E1 2LA.

On Saturday September 9th, there's a Queers Without Borders benefit from 8pm-2am. Proceeds will be split between London No Borders detainee support group and Queer Beograds festival (Serbia).

Then on the 15th September and 7th October there will be two further benefits to help cover the costs of the International Day of Action for Migrant Rights. Watch this space for further details.

The Coalition to Stop Deportations to Iraq and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees has called a picket of the Home Office (2 Marsham Street, London SW1) to oppose the imminent forced deportation of a large group of asylum seekers. The picket will take place from 12-2 pm on Tuesday 5 September.

At least six parents are still on hunger strike at Yarl's Wood detention centre demanding that they and their children be released (see Indymedia report). Detainees have been visited this week by people from No Borders London and the National Coalition of Anti Deportation Campaigns, and as a result of our press release we have managed to secure some press coverage, including in the Independent, Children Now, the Guardian and the BBC.

(The drawing above is a child's eye view of life in Yarl's Wood)