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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL
NO BORDERS, STOP DEPORTATIONS
LONDON DEMONSTRATION
Approximately Five Hundred plus people
gathered at the Imperial War Museum at
midday for the 7 October demonstration
called by the Athens European social Forum
to highlight the plight of migrant workers
and asylum seekers. The demonstration was
made up of a mixed crowd of the usual
lefties selling their newspapers, asylum
campaigners and migrant workers and asylum
seekers from many communities. The Migrant
workers justice for cleaners’ campaign had a
large visible contingent on the
demonstration wearing red T-Shirts. There
were marchers from the Congo, Rwanda,
Bolivia, Iraq and Iran.
There were a large number of colourful
banners from a wide variety of campaigns
such as the Bolivian Solidarity Campaign, No
Sweat, International federation of Iraqi
Refugee, International Organisation of
Iranian Refugees, Coalition to stop
Deportations to Iraq, No Borders, T&G sex
workers section there were also a large
number of RMT flags on the demonstration
The Demonstration left the imperial war
Museum to march slowly from the Imperial War
Museum along Borough High St and along St
Thomas’s St past the infamous Becket House
where asylum seekers are forced to sign at
allotted weekly or monthly appointments.
Never sure if they are going to be released
or transported to a detention centre to be
forcibly deported. The March ended at a
park close to Jamaica Rd SE1.
The demonstration reached the park at 2.30.
On arrival in the park the Solidarity
Campaign for Bolivia started playing some
traditional Bolivian music and started to
dance. Directly following this display the
organizers of the demonstration called for
the speakers, one of the first speakers was
Dashty Jamal from the Coalition to Stop
Deportations to Iraq Dashty spoke of the
current situation in Iraqi Kurdistan and the
experience of Iraqi asylum seekers recently
forcibly returned on 5 Sept 06.
“In this century starting with the war on
terror there is not a safe place in the
world. Human Rights, Civil Rights, Migrant
workers are under threat because of the
policy of the new world order brought about
by the war of terror of both state and non
state terrorism. We need an international
Human Rights movement to stop this
barbarism. Today twenty three million
Iraqis are affected by this policy, their
daily lives are controlled by terrorism and
civil war. Even today thousands of young
people are leaving Iraq looking for a better
life. On the 1st September 32
Kurdish Iraqis were forcibly returned to
Iraq from the UK. They were taken from a
detention centre handcuffed accompanied by
two security guards per asylum seeker. They
were forced to wear protective caps and flak
jackets before they were forced off the
Plane at Erbil Airport in Iraq. Iraq is not
a safe place this is why we have set up the
Coalition to publicise the terrible way
asylum seekers are treated in this country
and stop deportations to Iraq. The world
needs a strong human right’s movement .
Please support our campaign and help us
build this movement.
On the same day in Huddersfield
International Federation Iraqi Refugees and
Kurdish Cultural Community – Kirklees held a
demonstration which marched from Nawaroz
market to the city centre. The
demonstration was attended by a number of
asylum seekers and campaigners from the
International Organisation of Iranian
Refugees and Workers Liberty. .The following
slogans was used on the demonstration.
No
Deportations to Iraqi Kurdistan
Stop the war on Iraqi asylum seekers,
Asylum rights is human right
Burhan Fatah on behalf of the International
Federation of Iraqi Refugees spoke asking
for support for the campaign to stop
deportation to Iraq and
spoke of the current situation in Iraqi and
Kurdistan telling people to visit their MP
and to sign the petition
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Coalition to stop Deportations to Iraq
8-10-2006
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