No Borders South Wales

New Newsletter! – Movement #1noborderswalesadvertcover1

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:18:23 +0000

The 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 Updatenoborderswalessmall Eritean squatthey are human

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:20:46 +0000

A 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 appealnoborderswalesgallery link="file" columns="2"calais police migrants

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:01:43 +0000

Urgently 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 flightnoborderswales

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:28:56 +0000

Yesterday’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 Baghdadnoborderswalesno-deportations-to-iraq (2)stop-charter-flight-deportations (2)

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:35:25 +0000

On 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 20thnoborderswalescalais night 20-10-09

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:45:56 +0000

20th 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 Walesnoborderswalesn158100673713_6073chimage.php3890838747_e5c94b25ab_b

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:40:11 +0000

This 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 CalaisnoborderswalesUK BA Picket 23/09/09

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:15:45 +0000

12 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!noborderswaleshospital_ward__empty1Empty Hospital Corridor

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:05:17 +0000

The 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 [...]

Rugby players to be deportednoborderswalesCelticCrusaders_2034654photo_628851

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:09:19 +0000

One of the more recent targeting of ‘undesirable foreigners’by the UK Border Agency  has hit the Celtic Crusaders rugby league club. The UKBA has ordered six players and their families out of the country by 7th September and banned them from the UK for 10 years. The players in question; team captain Jace Van Dijk, club record try scorer Tony [...]

Jumble Sale: 5th Septembernoborderswales

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:17:34 +0000

On Saturday 5th September at 2pm-5pm we will be hosting a Jumble Sale fund-raiser at the The Wyndham Street Centre in Riverside (map)‎. There will be clothes, books, CD’s, bric-a-brac, cakes and other goodies up for grabs. We might even get some live music for the afternoon! We encourage all those who want to come and grab a [...]

Migration and Ecology at Climate Camp CymrunoborderswalesClimate Camp Cymru

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:00:43 +0000

This week the first ever Climate Camp Cymru begins near Merthyr Tydfil. The first Climate Camp took place in the north of England in 2006 and now take place around the world. There is a full programme of workshops, with a quite interesting talks, discussions and debates scheduled. As well as sessions like “Composting the capitalist state – how [...]

Shirly and Evelyn: Banned from the UK?noborderswalesShirley & Evelyn

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:42:15 +0000

Despite the widespread recognition that the expulsion of Shirley Edwards and Evelyn Calcabrini, two Welsh-Argentines attempting to visit Wales, by the UK Border Agency at Heathrow must have been some sort of mistake, both have once again been refused entry by the UKBA. When this story first appeared in the press it was reported as an act [...]

Calais: A journey in basic healthcarenoborderswalesFranceCalais090423_432433459medics

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:51:59 +0000

This is the personal recollection of one of our group (a street medic) at the Calais No Border Camp. The port town of Calais in Northern France represents the final point of the journey in a migrants struggle to gain entry into the United Kingdom. Much has already been documented about the plight of those stuck [...]

An Application from The JunglenoborderswalesCopyright Guido 2008. NO UNAUTHORISED USE.433491migrants

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:56:51 +0000

This is the personal recollection of the Calais No Border Camp by one member of our group, others will follow soon. I am surrounded by faces, all beaming at me, eyes glittering with interest, with expectation. The floor is beautifully carpeted and a Turkish man has motioned me towards a space towards the back of the [...]

Benefit gig on 30th Augustnoborderswalesn110460828921_6073

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:24:47 +0000

On Sunday 30th August we’ll be having a fundraising event in TJs, Newport. For a modest entry fee of £5, you can feast on a delight of rabble rousing rebel music. Over on tour from Belgium are dub/ska-punk band The Usual Suspects who bring militant politics to music in a manner that can only be matched by [...]

An overdue updatenoborderswales433472

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:23:20 +0000

We’ve been very quiet on the blogging front since the end of the No Border Camp in Calais. The events on the ground in the region have got more intense, with French Authorities attempting to remove all migrant camps, however activists have been staying in the area doing Calais Migrant Solidarity. Some of us intend [...]

Reflecting on Calais No Border Camp 2009noborderswalesmarchCamp signNBSW @ Calais

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:43:51 +0000

This year’s No Border Camp in Calais has now finished. It was a powerful and unique event. Bringing together activists from across Europe to share a camp alongside undocumented migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia as well as significant numbers of local residents was no easy feat. Especially under the watchful eye of over [...]

Welcome in Calais?noborderswales3596871035_aa996cb582election_euro_nobor_568453a

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:23:31 +0000

You may notice on the top of our left column we have a new feature, our twitter feed!  To go along with our Facebook and Myspace accounts, we’ve signed up to the latest social networking craze and will be sending out ‘tweets’ for the duration of the No Border Camp, and hopefully beyond! This will [...]

No Border Camp next weeknoborderswalescalais-orange2No Border Camp site

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:46:22 +0000

With the Calais No Border Camp less than a week away, to go along with the activist mobilisation, the mainstream media disinformation is in full swing. Whilst most of the scare stories have appeared in the French press, never one to miss a spot of sensationalism the Daily Mail has run a story about the [...]

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