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

Tue Dec 18 07:19:32 PST 2007

I've added details of the London and Manchester actions and posted it

cheers

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Quoting Tony <tony at cactusnetwork.org.uk>:

> 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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