Hey guys,

This week on Market Street in Manchester there will be a picket against deportations. You can't miss us we put flags up and have alot of anti-deportation propaganda, if you want to come and help out just tell one of the people you see on-site involved.

It will be from 12 - 3 this upcoming Saturday (17th Dec)

Here's the leaflet we'll be handing out (ignore the random question marks ):


Anti-Imperialist day of action against immigration controls

Saturday 17th December 2005 12-3pm

Defend Eucharia and Timeyi! Defend All Asylum Seekers! No To All Immigration Controls!

The Defend Eucharia & Timeyi Campaign (DETC) are having a day of action today on Market street, Manchester. The theme for this is "Defence of all asylum seekers and refugees on an anti-racist and anti-imperialist basis. Opposition to all immigration controls, all deportations and this racist Labour government."

Justina Ogbe and two-year-old Yonre have also fled the war in the oil-rich Niger Delta. Justina's husband was killed within days of the birth of her son. She sought asylum in Britain fearing she and her son would be targeted next. The Home Office acknowledges that their story is true, but says Justina and Yonre could go and live elsewhere in Nigeria. In reality, all deportees to Nigeria are immediately incarcerated, and over 95% of Nigerian prisoners are routinely brutalised and tortured, by Nigeria?s British-armed dictatorship. The ?Justina & Yonre Must Stay? Campaign has been set up to defend them (for more info email [email protected]].


Innocent Nkung, of the ?Innocent Must Stay Campaign? (more info [email protected]) fled homophobic and political persecution in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At least 3.8 million people have died in DRC's profitable civil war since 1998, yet Labour deported 65 people to Congo in 2004 (many are raped and tortured on return). Innocent has been arrested by the DRC officials at various times between 1992 and 2005, particularly in June 2004 because he participated in a march against the UN failure to protect the Congolese people in Bukavu from US and French-armed Rwandan troops. Following one arrest, Innocent was made to choose between 15 years in gaol or volunteering for Secret Service Training. He refused and was detained in Buluwo prison, where he suffered rape, beatings, and torture. The Home Office has dismissed Innocent's asylum claim, and yet behind the horrors in the DRC lies EU, US and British imperialism: gold, chrome, cobalt, oil, timber, tin, rubber, diamonds and coltan (used in laptops and mobile phones) are being stolen from DRC, Africa?s richest country. The thieves include 18 British firms, who together with 67 other imperialist companies and in collusion with British-armed Ugandan and Rwandan troops and militia, took at least $5 billion out of the country by 2002 (The Observer, 6 February 2005). All of this under Labour, a racist, imperialist government which is now speeding up deportations.


Imperialism creates the conditions (war, poverty, disease) that cause asylum seekers and refugees to flee in the first place. Opposition to the treatment of asylum seekers that doesn't oppose the Labour government, will not protect asylum seekers or unite families. We will simply go round in circles, as a few escape deportation, while thousands of others are deported, drown in the Mediterranean sea or stay locked up in detention centres plagued by racism and brutality around Europe and beyond. Millions more in oppressed nations will continue to suffer as imperialism creates more poverty, wars, death and destruction.


DETC and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! invite other anti-deportation campaigns to be part of future joint actions on an anti-racist and anti-imperialist basis. Please contact us on 07779 189 794 if you are planning and/or willing to be part of future joint actions. DETC is holding their next organising meeting on Tuesday 10th January 2006, at St. Georges? Church, Abbey Hey Lane, Abbey Hey, Gorton, at 7:30pm. Please come along and help us build an effective resistance to Labour?s attacks on Eucharia, Timeyi and all asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants.

Oppose Racism! Oppose Imperialism!

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If anyone is coming please post on the thread!