socialist www.socialistresistance.net In a massive protest against Fortress Europe refugees and other migrants from different countries took to the streets in the Second European Day of Action for Migrant Rights on 2 April. 'Neill
Joined by trade unions, anti-racist groups, black community organisations, women's associations, human rights and other organisations they raised the demands: "Freedom of movement and the right to stay".
In London a demonstration-cum-carnival followed a route from Clerkenwell Green through the East End past Communications House holding (detention) centre in Old Street to Haggerston Park for speeches, stalls and food.
In Manchester three feeder marches converged on the city centre for a rally in Albert Square on the theme "Detained, Deported, Disappeared - Hands Off Our Mates".
In Glasgow a demonstration took place outside offices of the Home Office in Brand Street.
Other actions in the UK included: a "noise protest" in Nottingham Market Square; a stall and street theatre in Birmingham's Bull Ring; music and theatre in Oxford; and a vigil "to support and remember those stolen from us by an unjust immigration Further information: www.april2.org.uk http://noborder.org/actionday2005/display.php?id=334 Global Radio via streaming web from www.globalproject.info Video/dvd film about actions by detainees and supporters against immigration prisons in seven countries in Europe and in Australia, www.nolager.org system" in Canterbury's Butter Market.
Among those supporting the London event were the Halkevi Kurdish and Turkish Community Association, Barbed Wire Britain Network to End Refugee and Migrant Detention, Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, Hackney Refugee and Migrants Support Group, Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, London Rhythms of Resistance, No One is Illegal - UK, Jewish Socialist Group, Zimbabwe Committee to Defend Asylum Seekers, National Union of Journalists, Precarity Assembly, WOMBLES, Iranian Peoples' Struggle Defence Committee.
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USE tion detention centres. The need for the regularisation' of people without official documents (sans papiers) was the focus in 17 towns throughout the Loire and Brittany regions of France while in Paris a campaigning conference discussed prostitution and the exploitation of migrant wonich.
In Sweden a week-long protest was organised against the Förvaret detention centre in Malmo plus demonstrations in Stockholm and Gothenburg.
In Germany demonstrations and meetings drew crowds in Hamburg, Magdeburg, Munich, Bremen, Berlin, Lindau, SOCIALIST RESISTANCEs a monthly marxist paper. We are offering a appropriate box and send to us: PO Box 1109 London N4 2UU Please
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NO MORE Above and below: a lively demonstration through Manchester on April 2 challenges New Labour's racist policies on asylum and immigration. Brandenburg, Nürnberg, Frankfurt, Munster and Düsseldorf.
Greece was the scene of migrant demonstrations in Thessalonika and Athens city centres as well as protests outside a detention centre for women and children near Athens.
Protesters in Rotterdam, Netherlands, demonstrated against the detention of sans papiers in two prison ships moored in the Merwe Port.
In Italy, action focused on two Italian "doors" to Europe: Ragusa detention centre in Sicily and Goriza in Friuli where a centre is under construction.
A special radio programme covered European initiatives in or around 2 April describ. ing them as "an EU map of rebellion against repressive and racist laws."
In Spain protesters mounted actions in Malaga and Barcelona and Sevilla while a demonstration at the deportation prison Hernalser Guertel in Vienna was the highlight of events in Austria.
The call for a Second Day of Actions for Migrant Rights, building on the First European Day on 31 January 2004, was backed at last October's European Social Forum meeting in London. ...--. Phone ...