The banners stayed up for varying lengths of time, with one still being there late into the afternoon. One of the banners was directly facing the offices of the Nottingham Evening Post in order to highlight their practise of distributing prejudice around Nottingham on a daily basis (see article here: http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/125 )

Elsewhere, London No Borders produced a spoof Metro newspaper: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/07/454790.html

BREAKING BORDERS – Live Music and Arts Performance Night FRIDAY JULY 9TH, 8pm till 12am at The Polish Centre, 2 Sherwood Rise, Nottingham with bar open late, food available.

Includes eclectic music and poetry from many parts of the world. Visual artists will have works on display and some live demonstrations! Stalls about different issues.

Featuring…

• Aistaguca – Balkan Band
• NOLKLON, a Romanian Rock band
• The Gentlemen, lively music from different parts of Africa
• Nyam, playing Traditional Mongolian music
• Black Feather – music and poetry
• Nottingham Tribal Drumming Group (tbc)
• Unique World, performing a varied range of music from different countries
• Lance Hulme, on sitar, and Beance on Tabla
• DJ EARTHPIPE (Sweetpotato Soundsystem / Subdub / Exodus)

Poetry from…

• Frank McMahon (plus other DIY poets tbc)
• Geoff Curl
• Sharon Walia from Prose of the Occupation (tbc)
• Ben of the Green, humorous wordsmith. (tbc)

Artists displayed:

• Ahinee Mensa, Jeffer M-Garib, Jasim Ghafur, Mirela Bistran and Obediar Madziva

Other acts to be confirmed, listen out for updates!

Door £2/£3/£5 ( unwaged / low-waged / waged )

Money raised after expenses will go to Nottingham & Notts Refugee Forum Destitution Group

At its main offices in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire on 3rd June, travel agents Carlson Wagonlit Travel were awarded ‘Deportation Profiteer of the Year’ title for their major role in booking seats on deportation flights. Campaigners from the Stop Deportation Network presented the company with the ‘award’
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Protests were part of a European Week of Action Against the Deportation Machine, from 1st to 6th June 2010.
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There will be a Mass demo against deportations in Parliament Square this Saturday in London, 5th June, 2-4pm. This will be followed by a solidarity evening with Kurdish and Iraqi refugees, organised by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees @ the Ringcross Community Centre (60 Lough Rd, N7 6RH) from 6-11pm. Details: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/452758.html
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Visit Indymedia UK for more reports.

Watch this!
New video about Calais Migrant Solidarity:
http://www.youtube.com/noborderscalais#p/a/u/0/LLFP8YA-J8s

Join this!
Calais Migrant Solidarity facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=125191959561

The first ever demonstration against a detention centre in Bulgaria organised by the Bulgarian Anarchist Federation of Anarchists in Bulgaria (FAB-IFA). March 20th, 2010 (no sound):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrFEFpmkMqU

Documentary about Frontex (EU border control operation) in 2009:
Frontex: The Movie (featuring noborder camp in lesvos 2009) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOuFo5egBqE

Schedule

19 May – Detention and Deportation
23 June – Capitalism and Migration
21 July – Frontex
25 Aug. – Clandestinity and the struggle of migrants
22 Sept. – European migration policy

In preparation for the Brussels No Borders Camp in September, Nottingham No Borders is holding a series of info nights as an introduction into the topics that will be discussed at the camp. With films, food, and lots of interesting discussion, we hope to create an informal and open space for those who may be new to the politics of No Borders as well as those who would like the chance to delve more deeply into the details of the UK and European border regime and how it can be challenged.

Detention and Deportation
Wednesday 19 May, 7pm, Sumac Centre

The system of detention and deportation is one of the main ways in which the state attempts to control migration and violently curtail people’s freedom to move. What can we do to work in solidarity with those in detention? How do we challenge the private companies that make a profit from running detention centres and forcibly removing people? Is there a wider battle to be fought against the prison system as a whole?

Hello. Im 28 and I am a Zimbabwean national who is at the present moment detained at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre in Clapham, Bedfordshire. I was given a flight date for Tuesday the 6th January 2008 , where I was to be removed to Malawi by force.

In Zimbabwe I was residing in Harare in Warren Park and here in England I was living in Kent since 2004 and I moved to Leeds in 2007 where I was until I was brought to Yarl’s Wood. I have been in detention since the 20th October 2008 and recently I was given a flight to Malawi despite me not being a Malawian and despite the fact that my case was still being heard at the high court.

I will not forget this dreadfull day in my life, the time of the flight was 7pm, but I was told to prepare my luggage and get ready to leave the centre by 12pm and then was transported from the centre to the airport at 2pm. I did not expect to be escorted by 4 people, three of them were huge and hefty men and one was a woman, thats when I knew that this day was going to be difficult one for me as the men had handcuffs and looked like they were prepared for a fight.

We got to the airport around 3:30pm and had to wait in the van out in the cold for some hours until they were ready to force me on the plane. I thought my life was over, one of the men who was in charge of the escort kept asking me if i had contacted my lawyer about the flight or about the injunction from the court to stop the removal order and I assured him that I was not going to board the plane no matter what it took.

I found it to be an unlawfull thing to be removed to a country that I did not belong to because of the passport I was holding, I was protesting all the way to the airport and trying to explain to the escorts that I was a Zimbabwean and that I had enough evidence to prove this and that i had used the passport to flee from my country Zimbabwe, but they turned a blind eye on the matter.

I explined that I had a friend who had been in the same situation as mine and she was also detained at Yarl’s Wood. she was deported to Malawi by force and Malawian Immigration arrested her for “abusing their” passport and she was to be held in custody for a month and then later be deported to Zimbabwe the country she had ran away from. All this happened even though UK Border Agency deny that Zimbabweans deported to Malawi are arrested or detained and are deported to Zimbabwe. My friend phoned me from Zimbabwe and told me of her ordeal in confidence as she is still in hiding.

All this I explained to the escorts and all they said was they were just doing thier job. I was tired, cold and scared all the time I was in the van and I was very disturbed. at 6: 20 pm, I was informed by the leader of the escorts that the flight was cancelled , he gave me a reason that there was something wrong with the booking of the tickets and that I was to be returned to the centre. I cried with joy, my prayers had been answered?.

This is a perfect example of the practice of companies like Amey and organisations like NPL who bring them in to cut costs. These companies are responsible for attempting to lower wages through casualisation. More solidarity action is needed to support workers who are brave enough to stand up to these attacks and so help protect the wages of all.

* a report from the Newcastle gathering of No Borders groups in Nov 2008 (next one is 21-22 Feb 2009)
* actions against ID cards after their introduction for some ‘foreigners’.
* ?Conserving what for whom?? leaflet distributed at the climate march.
* actions against AMEY cleaning contractor which has sacked Columbian workers.
* the ?full circle? anti-arms trade protests in Nottingham, linking small arms to wars to refugees.
* Forthcoming and continued action against detention centres and airlines who carry out deportations.
* a round up of cross border news from Europe

Back issues 1-4 can be found through the No Borders (UK) network site: http://noborders.org.uk/