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People are on the move around the world: moving in response to the poverty, starvation, war and lack of opportunity caused by the onslaught of global capitalism, in response to the adverse affects of climate change
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The Politics of Forced Labour
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The recent trial of a group of Irish Travellers (or Parvee) accused of forcing vulnerable people into forced labour or slavery unsurprisingly hit the headlines. A perfect reactionary story, a specific instance distorting the wider truth: that in fact that Irish travellers as an ethnic group are the most marginalised in terms of education, wages & housing in the UK is instantly drowned out by this one story.? Here, through the lens of the media they become the oppressors, the torch bearers...
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EU Migration Policy Put on Trial
From Bristol No Borders, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Tribunal 12 is organised by Shahrazad ? Stories for Life in close collaboration with Kulturhuset in Stockholm and the Swedish Forum for Human Rights.
Tribunal 12 advocates a change within the European system that currently treats people who flee to Europe disrespectfully and exposes them to systematic violations.
In order to achieve this, Tribunal 12 sets out to make visible what refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are experiencing in their encounter with Europe and:
- Investigate whether...
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Cafe Film Night Thurs 3rd May: ?Le Harve'
From Bristol No Borders, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Wedges & dips from 7pm film start 7.45pm. Plus update from Calais & news of new camp
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbour city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (Andr? Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that...
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X-rays, Surveillance and Secret Justice
From Bristol No Borders, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
From:? www.irr.org.uk
Written by Frances Webber
X-raying migrant children to determine age and proposals to monitor all communications, as well as the proposed secret justice measures, further target ?suspect communities'.
The pilot x-ray scheme to assess the age of young asylum seekers whose claims to be children are disbelieved, which started at the end of March with virtually no notice, has caused outrage among children's and migrant groups and grave concern to Children's Commissioners. The...
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Child Refugees to be X-Rayed
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The UK Border Agency is to trial dental x-rays of child asylum seekers in the face of fierce opposition from the medical profession, immigration lawyers and the UK’s children‘s commissioners.
The agency has started a three-month trial of volunteer applicants to establish whether the x-rays would be a useful tool in establishing the ages of asylum seekers, who are treated differently if they are under 18. The move comes three years after the previous Labour government dropped plans...
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First they come for the Asylum Seekers'
From Bristol No Borders, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
By John Gray (Institute of Race Relations)
Asylum seekers were the guinea pigs for all kinds of brutal and unacceptable policies that are now beginning to be applied more widely.
Private security firms are in the news – a national contract worth ?3.5 billion is being rolled out to privatise police functions. Eight public prisons are being market tested with future private contracts worth ?2.5 billion. The largest security company in the world, G4S, figures in all these developments. G4S...
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Lutz & Antsec Hackers Take down Asylum/Prison Profiteers Website
From Bristol No Borders, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Bristol No Borders writes: In the UK they run Harmondsworth Immigration Prison, as well as numerous other things we don’t like. Cheers hackers, if you want any ideas for further action, just let us know!
“Anonymous have struck a blow against the Prison-Industrial Complex and eliminated the online presence of prison for profit scumbags GEO group from the face of the internet'
The website http://www.geogroup.com was defaced with a youtube hip-hop video paying tribute to US political...
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Activists occupy Barnardo's HQ demanding they quit the child detention business
From Bristol No Borders, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Anti-detention campaigners argue that by agreeing to provide welfare and social care services at this ‘family detention centre’, named Cedars, Barnardo’s is used to legitimise the continued use of detention for children, which the government promised in 2010 to stop doing. [1]
The converted school is officially described as ‘pre-departure
accommodation’, but campaigners argue it has all the characteristics of a detention centre but the name. With a 2.5m perimeter...
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No Borders Occupy Barnados HQ: Get Out of Child Detention!
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No Border activists occupying @barnardos HQ demanding they quit child detention business #nbc2012 #noborders
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London No Borders Convergence ? starts this monday
From Bristol No Borders, 3 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Seminars and workshops at the NoBorders Convergence
17 November, 2011 – 13:34 ? London NoBorders
During the first three days of the Convergence there will be a series of workshops and seminars taking place at Goldsmiths College in New Cross, south east London. All workshops are happening in the Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) of Goldsmiths unless otherwise stated. There will be a welcome area in the Stretch in the Student Union building next door to the Richard Hoggart Building, with tea,...
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