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.

Solidarity with the Yarl's Wood Hunder Strikers, Demonstration Friday 19th February

February 16, 2010

AT SERCO OFFICES, 18-22 HAND COURT, HOLBORN, LONDON WC1V 6JF. FRIDAY 19th FEBRUARY, 2.30pm

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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Solidarity with Yarl's Wood hunger strikers!

February 15, 2010

DEMO IN SOLIDARITY WITH YARL'S WOOD HUNGER STRIKERS
WEDNESDAY 17th FEBRUARY
6.30pm-7.30pm, OUTSIDE HOLLOWAY PRISON, Parkhurst Road, London N7 0NU

On Friday 5th February 84 women started a hunger strike in Yarl's Wood Immigration
Detention Centre near Bedford, demanding their release.

On Monday 8th February the hunger strikers were locked up by the centre's guards for 8
hours, without access to water or toilet facilities. Four women were picked out as
"ringleaders" and were taken to various prisons. All are now incarcerated in HMP Holloway.

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Demo in solidarity with Yarls Wood hunger strikers, Fri 12th Feb

February 8, 2010

London Detainee Solidarity Network have called for a demo this Friday at 2.30pm in support of the Yarls Wood hunger strikers.

The demo will take place at Serco's offices at 18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn), London, WC1V 6JF. Serco manage Yarls Wood on behalf of UKBA.

Please bring banners and instruments.

For more info about the hunger strike see here

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Women on Hunger Strike in Yarls Wood

February 8, 2010

Since the 5th of February 2010, we the residents at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre are on hunger strike which involves over 84 + women, who are protesting against the period of time spent in detention and the treatment that they receive while being detained.

The strike was sparked to protest and demand that the frustration and humiliation of all foreign nationals ends now.

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Statement of CNSP, Coordination National de Sans Papier (french)

February 8, 2010

NON A L’EVACUATION POLICIERE DU HANGAR ASSOCIATIF

*LOUE POUR LES REFUGIES !*

*Sarkozy/Hortefeux/Besson n’ont jamais dormi sous des températures d’hiver, ça se voit, ils viennenet de faire intervenir la police contre un local associatif loué pour mettre à l’abri les réfugiés Afghans, Somaliens, Irakiens, etc, de cet hiver particulièrement dur.*

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Calais Migrant Solidarity Press Release on Kronstadt Hangar Police Raid

February 8, 2010

Calais Migrant Solidarity
Press Release: Immediate Release
Tel: +447531647480
Email: calaisolidarity@gmail.com

MIGRANT CENTRE EVICTED BY FRENCH RIOT POLICE IN CALAIS

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Statement from Sos Sans Papier about the police raid of the Kronstadt Hangar (french)

February 7, 2010

SoS Soutien aux Sans Papiers "cette nouvelle jungle " de
Besson : du "tout permis" et violences d'Etat

Expulsion , et violences intolérables dans le hangar Cronsdat de CALAIS. BESSON s'agite à nouveau . Il détourne ainsi le vrai débat de fond, pourquoi ces exils forcés? Pourquoi cette violence envers des exilés obligés de fuir guerres, violences et misère.

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