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Demonstration outside UK Border Agency
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:21:15 +0000Over forty people braved the wind and rain outside the UK Border Agency on Newport Road on Wednesday to protest against the first Joint EU Charter deportation flight, which went to Nigeria. We gave out 150 copies of a leaflet by Stop Deportations to Nigeria, which were well received by everyone we spoke to. At the [...]
Whistle-blower reveals culture of abuse at UK Border Agency in Cardiff
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:57:22 +0000An article in today’s Guardian, has added extra meaning to our protest outside the UKBA this afternoon. Louise Perrett worked as a case owner at the UK Border Agency office in Cardiff for three and a half months last summer. Due to her experiences of her time in the agency she has risked breaching the [...]
Stop Deportations To Nigeria Now!
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:22:47 +0000Along with our protest in Cardiff on Wednesday, at the same time there will be a protest outside the Nigerian Embassy in London. The following statement has been published by No Deportations to Nigeria and is signed by ourselves: Yet another joint mass deportation flight to Nigeria is scheduled for 3rd February, 2010. If it went [...]
Protest Against Charter Flight Deportations
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:31:17 +0000On Wednesday, 3rd February at 5.30pm, there will be a specially chartered deportation flight to Nigeria. At 4.30pm we will be holding a protest against this outside the UK Border Agency, General Buildings, 31-33 Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 0AB (map). There have been previous deportation flights to Nigeria from the UK, (we’ve protested against them before) but ‘Flight PVT-JEUC’ will be the first Joint [...]
The reality of asylum seeking
Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:56:58 +0000A new report: “Chance or choice? Understanding why asylum seekers come to the UK” has been published by the Refugee Council. The report is the result of research undertaken by Professor Heaven Crawley, Director of the Centre for Migration Policy Research at the University of Swansea. The findings say what anyone who has any knowledge of the experience [...]
A Party in Calais
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:40:35 +0000New Year’s Eve is bound to be different everywhere, as a party, or a special occasion. But how would you be able to celebrate if you were homeless and vulnerable on the streets of Calais? In addition to Salam’s incredible food distribution, they ended the New Year’s Eve distribution with a party. Music was played [...]
Winter in Calais
Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:09:36 +0000A group of No Borders activists from South Wales recently returned to Northern France to take part in Calais Migrant Solidarity. A serene scene, sitting at night a migrant’s encampment, sipping tea and watching the dark sea from the sand dunes. Behind the gulls are wheeling against the orange sky. This peaceful snapshot hides the daily struggle, [...]
Movement #3
Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:41:38 +0000Here’s the first issue of 2010, as usual packed with the latest news and opinion from the movement for free migration. Articles this issue include: No Borders at the Cop15 in Copenhagen An update from Calais Attempted self-immolation by asylum seekers A No Border Camp in Brussels Paddington Bear condemns child detention End Child Detention? End immigration controls Solidarity with detainees accused to [...]
No Borders at the UN Climate Summit
Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:15:03 +0000The effect of climate change on migration, is one of the largest aspects of social fallout resulting from rampant capitalism’s destruction of the enviroment. On the 7th-18th December a sizeable group of No Borders activists from Wales and the south west joined thousands of others and travelled to Copenhagen to attend the mobilisations at the UN Climate Summit – [...]
Movement #2
Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:55:39 +0000The second issue of the No Borders newsletter has hit the streets, and is packed with all the latest happenings in the struggle for freedom of movement and equality for all. Articles this issue include: Jump the Border protest from Calais to Folkstone Demonstration on the 16th anniversary of Campsfield dentition centre No to Deportation and Destitution protest in [...]
Jumble Sale: 21st November!
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:46:42 +0000On 21st November from 1pm No Borders South Wales will be hosting a jumble sale at Trinity methodist church (map). The money we raise will be going towards ongoing projects in Calais, where the situation for migrants is getting increasingly more difficult. There will be clothes, books, CD’s, bric-a-brac, cakes and other goodies up for grabs. We [...]
New Newsletter! – Movement #1
Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:23 +0000The No Borders UK Newsletter has been rotated around local No Borders groups for the last few years. Last month’s network gathering in London, signalled that it is now our turn to produce the publication. We intend to create a more regular and broad based periodical, drawing in others that work to end the [...]
Calais Update
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:20:46 +0000A carload of activists from No Borders South Wales are in Calais with the group Calais Migrant Solidarity. The weather was awful at the beginning of the week, cold with heavy sudden rain showers; dangerous weather for people forced to live on the streets. We set out on Tuesday morning to deliver warm clean clothes to [...]
Urgent Calais appeal
Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:01:43 +0000Urgently needed: Blankets, Sleeping bags , warm clothes (especially winter jackets and water proofs), mens shoes, tents, money, tarpaulin, rope, tools Hundreds of refugees and migrants, many of whom are under 18 are sleeping out in the cold weather in Calais; with no shelter, no blankets, nothing. This is the result of the French [...]
Update on Baghdad charter flight
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:56 +0000Yesterday’s charter flight to Iraq was returned to the UK with the majority of the Iraqi deportees returning to UK immigration detention centres. Sadly 10 of those on board were left in Baghdad. The Stop Deportation Network together with The International Federation of Iraqi Refugees have issued a press release with the following statements from those [...]
Charter flight to Baghdad
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:35:25 +0000On the morning of 15th October, 39 people who had sought asylum in the UK were deported to Baghdad, Iraq on a chartered flight. The Air Italy flight left from Stansted Airport, named “Operation Rangat” by the UK Border Agency. This was the first forced mass expulsion of people to southern Iraq from the UK. An eyewitness [...]
Calais information and Film night-Oct 20th
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:45:56 +000020th October 2009, 7pm Upstairs at O’Neills, Trinity Street, Cardiff Free event Calais film and info night Reports, footage and films direct from Calais; a front line in the UK’s Border War against migrants. The recent clearance of migrant camps in the port town of Calais, northern France, briefly caught the attention of the mainstream media in the UK and [...]
Extreme right-wing racists to invade south Wales
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:40:11 +0000This October, in a bid to stir up racial tension and increase religious intolerance, a group calling itself the ‘English Defence League‘ (EDL) intend to hold two protests in south Wales with a “march against muslim extremists” in Swansea on Saturday 17th October and an ‘anti-mosque demo’ in Newport on Saturday 24th October. It seems that the [...]
Picket in solidarity with migrants in Calais
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:15:45 +000012 activists picketed the Cardiff offices of the UK Border Agency for an hour between 4-5pm today, catching a lot of post-work traffic along a busy Newport Road. The picket was held in response to a call out for protests outside UKBA offices in solidarity with activists and migrants in Calais, where French authorities have been [...]
Migration controls seriously damage your health!
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:05:17 +0000The UK Government’s increasingly punitive stance towards people who migrant to Britain has led to a severe shortage of doctors in hospitals throughout Wales. As far back as this May Dr. Hamish Meldrum, chairperson of the British Medical Association Council expressed concerns at the impact that ‘tougher’ border controls could have on health services, stating that new [...]
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