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Oxford Radical Forum 2011 – feminism, sex workers’ rights, open source, marxist ecology, Walter Benjamin, and the Arab revolutions …

Posted in campaigning, climate justice, education cuts, feminism, festivals, immigration/no-borders on May 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Oxford’s ivory tower may not often feel the tremors of a thousand students pushing through police lines to protest Vince Cable‘s (non) appearance at the Exam Schools in collusion with the marketisation of higher education in Britain. However, some students at Wadham College have, this past week, renewed a tradition (alive since 2008) of bringing [...]

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on asylum, the far right, and detention tourism like Marine Le Pen does it

Posted in immigration/no-borders, tagged , , , , , , , on March 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In Pawel Pawlikowski’s film Last Resort (2001), a woman and her son get trapped in Margate or “Stonehaven”, in the holding centre for refugees being processed – over 12 or 16 month periods – by the Home Office. A sublime love story unfolds between them and the self-declared ‘fuck-up’ (ex convict) owner of the sea-side [...]

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Yarl’s Wood

Posted in campaigning, immigration/no-borders on June 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

SHAME ON THE UK. END THE CRIMINALISATION AND DETENTION OF INDIVIDUALS SEEKING REFUGE IN THE UK. END THE DETENTION OF FAMILIES. END THE INHUMANE TREATMENT OF IMMIGRANTS IN PRIVATE PRISONS LIKE YARL’S WOOD. UKBA (the UK Border Agency), or so says a friend-of-a-friend who now works there, is housed in a shiny open-plan glassy ‘happy [...]

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