[Imc-birmingham] feature proposal: Birmingham's 2007 Refugee Week(end)

[dougbrum at tiscali.co.uk]

The feature looks good and something we need to support.

Sorry for non attendance to the meeting last night, I thought we were 
going to have it on Monday 2nd July. Last night clashed with a previous 
engagement. Whatever was decided, if you email me the details then I 
can knock up posters and flyers to give out at the MOVE meeting on 
Saturday.

Up the Proles!
D
>----Original Message----
>From: shiar at riseup.net
>Date: 26/06/2007 1:45 
>To: "Birmingham Imc"<imc-birmingham at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subj: [Imc-birmingham] feature proposal: Birmingham&#39;s 2007 
Refugee	Week(end)
>
>
>I'd like to propose the following feature for the central column.
>
>--------
>
>Title: Birmingham's 2007 Refugee Week(end)
>
>Author: IMC Birmingham
>
>Image: /images/2007/06/374240.jpg
>
>Abstract:
>
><p>
>Apart from the annual high-profile <a
>href="http://www.celebrating-sanctuary.org.uk">Celebrating 
Sanctuary</a>
>'festival', this year's <a
>href="http://www.refugeeweek.org.uk/Introduction.htm">Refugee 
Week</a> in
>Birmingham saw a <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374238.html">candlelit vigil</a> 
in
>the grounds of St. Philip's Cathedral on Friday, 22 June, organised 
by the
>Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC), to remember asylum seekers who 
took
>their own lives and to protest against the government's racist 
policies
>[<a href="/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374174.html">call</a>]. This 
was
>followed by African, Kurdish and Iranian live music, then the annual 
<a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2005/06/314230.html">Refugee Sleep-
out</a> to
>highlight the problem of destitution that many asylum seekers suffer 
from.
>The following day, the end of Refugee Week, saw a <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374302.html">rally</a> in 
Victoria
>Square, organised by ARC as well, to highlight the bitter realities
>suffered by refugees and asylum seekers in Britain and to protest 
against
>the Home Office's war on them [<a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374175.html">call</a>].</p>
></p>
><p>
>Meanwhile, <a
>href="https://lists.aktivix.org/mailman/listinfo/noborders-brum"
>Birmingham
>NoBorders</a> issued a <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2007/06/374302.html?c=on#c176327"
>statement</a>
>on the much-talked-about asylum amnesty, pointing out that, even when 
not
>based on racist criteria, it is not a long-term solution and often 
causes
>great suffering for those who don't 'fit in' and leads to stricter
>immigration controls.</p>
><p>
><strong>Related:</strong> <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2006/06/343010.html">Celebrating 
Sanctuary?!
>What Sanctuary?!</a> | <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2006/06/343137.html">Birmingham 
NoBorders and
>The Angel Group at Celebrating Sanctuary</a> | Refugee Week 2006: <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2006/06/343274.html">ARC vigil</a> | <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2006/06/343898.html">Solihull picket</a> 
| <a
>href="/en/regions/birmingham/2006/07/343971.html">"party without
>borders"</a>
></p>
>
>-- 
>Shiar
>
>
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