[Imc-uk-features] Feature proposal - 'Dawn raids stopped on UN International Migrants Day'

[Tony]

This seems like a feature that could go up now - as it really is 
something that people want to read first on indymedia

and people can add and amend online

cheers tony

At 14:34 +0000 18/12/07, freethepeeps at aktivix.org wrote:
>Hi
>
>A proposal has gone in for a feature on the No Borders actions - 
>text below. It
>should go up tomorrow morning, as there is a 24 hour consultation period.
>
>If you have any suggestions for improvements to the text, links etc, please
>email them back - thanks.
>
>Quoting freethepeeps at aktivix.org:
>
>>  Hi, with action reports still coming in, I'd like to propose a feature to go
>>  up
>>  marking the success of actions this morning.
>>
>>  Proposed text:
>>
>>  <p>On Tuesday 18/12/07. activists from the <a
>>  href="http://www.noborders.org.uk/">No Borders Network</a>, marked   <a
>>  href="http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/events/migrants/">UN International
>>  Migrant's
>>  Day</a>, by <a
>>  href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388077.html">blockading
>>  immigration reporting centres</a> in Glasgow, Bristol, Newcastle and
>>  Portsmouth. Arriving at the centres in the early hours of the morning, the
>>  activists aimed to prevent Immigration Enforcement Officers from staging
>>  dawn
>>  raids, in which families are often rounded up in preparation for removal to
>>  countries from which they have been forced to flee.</p>
>>
>>  <p>In Bristol, activists arrived in time to lock onto vehicles, and a police
>>  officer wasoverheard confirming that a dawn raid had been planned. Plymouth
>>  activists were locked onto the swing barrier and gates by 4.30am and believe
>>  that another dawn raid from that site was thwarted. Glasgow activists were
>>  in
>>  place by 5.30am when Immigration Enforcement Officers arrived and were
>>  unable
>>  to leave the car park with their vehicles due to a tripod, and people
>>  d-locked
>>  to the gates. Newcastle activists dressed in Santa outfirs locked onto the
>>  gates and used arm tubes to prevent vehicles from leaving the car parks. 2
>>  of
>>  the Glasgow activists were cut free from their D-locks and arrested, whilst
>>  a
>>  tripod continued to ensure that vehicles could not leave the car park.
>>  Activists at the other sites were able to leave without any arrests taking
>>  place.</p>
>>
>>  <p>The actions took place the day after a disturbance at <a
>>  href="http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388013.html">Campsfield
>>  Immigration Removal Centre</a>, when detainees responded to a particularly
>>  violent attempt to remove a man born in Benin, by destroying CCTV cameras,
>>  light fittings and plumbing fixtures. One detainee reported that the Blue
>>  Wing
>>  was <a
>>
>href="http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.1908800.0.police_called_to_campsfield_house.php">"devastated".</a></p>
>>
>>  <p> Meanwhile, Nottingham activists spent Monday and Tuesday campaigning to
>>  stop
>>  the deportation of  <a
>>  href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388036.html">Jane Mary
>>  Mutetsi</a>, a Rwandan national who fled to Britain via Uganda after her
>>  husband was murdered and she was subjected to a gang rape and severe beating
>>  by
>>  Rwandan soldiers in which she lost the sight in one eye, her left ovary and
>>  several teeth. Jane Mary faces deportation to Uganda, where it is rumoured
>>  that
>>  there is a warrant for her arrest.</p>
>>
>>  <p>Last week, the <a href="http://www.ncadc.org.uk/index.htm">NCADC</a>
>>  reported
>>  that several detainees had been <a
>>  href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387896.html">succesful</a> in
>>  resisting deportation attempts.These included Tarls Wood detainee <a
>>
>href="http://www.ncadc.org.uk/emmaginnsfolder/emmaginnsfolder/nov%2007/Maud.htm">Maud
>>  Lennard</a>, a Zimbabwean national who has managed to resist 7 deportation
>>  attempts. Ms. Lennard fled Zimbabwe on a Malawian passport that she obtained
>>  through bribing officials, and the UK immigration services have decided that
>>  she can therefore be deported to Malawi.</p>
>  >
>>  <p>Earlier in the year, a <a
>>  href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/381277.html">No Border Camp</a>
>>  was held in Sussex to protest against the proposed building of a new
>>  Immigration Removal Centre at Gatwick Airport, which forms part of the plans
>>  for a massive expansion of Immigration Removal facilities. Time and time
>>  again
>>  the UK state has been seen to be failing in its duty to offer refuge to
>>  those
>>  who flee political oppression and persecution.</p>
>>
>>  best
>>
>>  ftp
>>
>>  Some photos in from Glasgow at
>>  http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/388077.html?c=on#c186407 -
>>  suggest
>>  the 2nd one if no better ones come in.
>>
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