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bristol no borders
http://bristolnoborders.wordpress.com/
People are on the move around the world: moving in response to the poverty, starvation, war and lack of opportunity caused by the onslaught of global capitalism; in response to the adverse affects of climate change
Attempts by states to control the movement of people are a recent phenomena and lead only to criminalisation, apartheid and death. People are divided into those with and without documents, workers are divided into those with and without rights, and countries are divided into a strict hierarchy of wealth. Thousands die as they try to cross borders, as the conditions of detention become intolerable or as the threat of return to unbearable conditions get closer. Selective inclusion and notions of “illegality” are methods to divide and control us all. No One Is Illegal!We support FREEDOM MOVEMENT and the RIGHT TO REMAIN for all.
Borders are rising around all of us and we must resist any politics of division between the settled and the latest migrants. Those without papers are used as the testing ground for i.d. schemes and monitoring systems due to be implemented on those with papers. They are demonised in order to create divisions among us.
Bristol No Borders support all those in struggle against borders; against incarceration, particularly detention centres; against exploitation of workers, particularly “illegal” workers. We challenge the concept of borders and the systems that maintain them. We work to develop spaces of solidarity, resistance and unity.
- Added on: Feb 11th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: bristolnoborders
- Listed in: Anarchism Independent
- Tags: migration solidarity asylum anarchism bristol border controls
Recent Posts
Calais – Humanitarian Crisis
The weather has turned in the last few days – by day the winds are chilling and by night the first frosts creep in. In Calais, since the camps nicknamed the ‘Jungle’ have been destroyed, large numbers of those waiting to seek asylum...
New Calais Zine and Blog: Out Now !
An excellent new Zine about the fucking awful situation in Calais and the resistance to the repression can be found here: calais-94 or here Extract : Rasheed. This is the second time Rasheed has tried to move to England, his account makes sobering ...
Dale Farm Alert: Baliffs to be chosen Dec 12th
It’s just leaked out that Basildon Council’s Cabinet will meet on Saturday, December 12,to decide which out of two bailiffs companies to award the two million pound contract for the eviction operation at Dale Farm.One is Constant & ...
Pecos Insurrection: How a private prison pushed immigrant inmates to the brink
Last Dec. 12, on the outskirts of Pecos, Texas, the immigrants doing time in the world’s largest privately run prison decided to turn the tables on their captors. It was the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an important religious holiday in Latin...
Athens Town Hall Occupied After Police Murder Migrant
The banner reads: Mohammad Kamran Atif, dead from torture at the Nikaia Police Station – MURDERER STATEMENT FROM THE OCCUPIED TOWN HALL OF NIKAIA Four-hundred demonstrators marched together today, October 17, on the streets of Nikaia in a demonstra...
Lesvos No Border Camp : Detention Centre Roof Occupation
This morning at 10 o’clock, ten noborder activists from Austria, Sweden, Spain, France, Czech Republik, Portugal, the Netherlands and Germany occupied the roof of the refugee jail in Pagani. With this action, we are increasing the pressure to final...
