Press release: POLICE DECLARE WAR OF ATTRITION ON CALAIS MIGRANTS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22/01/10
Contact: calaisolidarity@gmail.com
or call 0033 954 621 951 (France) or 077 949 661 556 (UK)

- Fifty police officers in riot gear crack down on peaceful protest by
migrants demanding respect for basic rights

- Officers declare orders to destroy all migrant shelters in the area

- Escalation in repressive tactics leave migrants with nowhere to go

PRESS RELEASE: HUNDREDS TO DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SURVEILLANCE IN CENTRAL LONDON TOMORROW

22 January 2010
- For Immediate Release -

Activist group London NoBorders calls for a day of demonstrations in
London on 23rd of January under the title "Life is too short to be
controlled
". [1] The day will start at 2pm at St. Pancras International to protest against the border controls at the Eurostar Terminal and will end with a rally at Piccadilly Circus, where Westminster Council's CCTV HQ is located. [2]

Statement on Arora International Hotels Ltd. Planning Application No. CR/2009/0421/COU

PRESS RELEASE ***FOR IMMEDIATE DISSEMINATION***

STARTS:

The attached statement in opposition to the planning application by Arora International Hotels Ltd. for a change of use of the Mercure Hotel, Povey Cross Road, Crawley, allowing its conversion into an Immigration Removal Centre, has been sent to all 37 Crawley Borough Councillors and to Laura Moffet MP for Crawley. The nature of this planning application and the exisitng structure means that any resulting detention centre could only be used to hold families and children.

Arora Hotel Conversion: Protest at Crawley Council Meeting, 25th Jan!

On Monday 25th January London No Borders and No Borders Brighton are calling for a protest outside Crawley Town Hall (The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1UZ) at 6.30pm to protest against Arora International's plans to turn its four-star hotel at Gatwick, Mercure, into yet another immigration prison.

Protest at Mercure Hotel, Gatwick, Mon 11th Jan

Mercure Hotel Protest - Statement By Participants

Today Monday 11th Janaury a group of 10 people from Brighton No Borders took part in a peaceful protest at the Mercure Hotel, Povey Cross Road, Crawley, demonstrating against Arora Hotels International Ltd.’s plans to turn the 254-bed four-star Mercure hotel into the third immigration detention centre in the Gatwick area.

Meeting to oppose Points Based Immigration

Wednesday 13 January 2010 17:00
RHB 142 - ground floor, main building
Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way , New Cross SE14 6NW

Following our public meeting at the beginning of December (entitled 'Freedom of Thought, Freedom of Movement'), we are having an organising meeting to build the campaign against the Points-Based System for Immigration. Join us and bring your ideas for actions and events so we can build awareness and opposition to the new immigration rules. All welcome.

VHS Video Basement presents: noborders film night in Soho

The Bath House Pub
96 Dean street

On tuesday the 12th of january we will be having a fundraiser/info
night for No Borders, at our new space The Bath House in Soho. This is
in anticipation of the upcoming demonstration on january 23rd in
central London, information about which can be found here:

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