Tag: yarls wood

No, Labour Hasn’t Always Been an Anti-Racist Party
In recent weeks, many on the Labour right have suggested the party has always been anti-racist, but that under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership this has changed. Aaron Bastani takes a look at the history of New Labour and argues this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Hunger For Freedom: Campaigning Against Detention From Inside and Outside Yarl’s Wood
The success of the last Yarl's Wood hunger strike shows that listening to and collaborating with people in detention is an imperative part of building a successful anti-detention movement. What else can the protest teach us about organising against detention and showing solidarity with those inside?
Outsourcing Incarceration: Privitisation in Britain’s Immigration Detention Estate
The private companies that run Britain's detention centres have repeatedly failed to protect the rights, dignity and safety of the people they imprison. But the Home Office has created a system in which it is incredibly difficult to hold them to account.
With University Staff Forced to Act like Border Guards, Striking Lecturers Must Show Solidarity with Yarl’s Wood
UCU picketers must act in solidarity with hunger strikers in Yarl's Wood because their struggles are intrinsically linked. The inhumane border control system that makes international students fear failing to meet their visa requirements and puts the unwanted duty of immigration policing on to university staff, also creates detention centres.
The Lockdown: Justice in Films

Hosts Oonagh Ryder @Oonskie and Sam Swann @SamGSwann chat about how justice is portrayed in films with filmmaker and writer Joel Blackledge @TheGreatDamfino. They discuss the role of the prison in films and TV, which characters are deserving of our sympathy and how punishment is the backdrop to so much of our entertainment.
Solidarity With the Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strikers

Women in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre have now been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks. Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott expresses her solidarity with their fight for adequate healthcare provision, for improved legal access and an end to indefinite detention.

Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike: 120 Detainees Refuse Food in Protest Against Home Office
Demands include an end to indefinite detention and charter flights, an amnesty for people who have been in the country for more than ten years and for those who arrived as children, decent food, better access to healthcare, and that LGBT asylum-seekers are believed and treated with respect.
Surround Yarl’s Wood: We Must Keep On Demanding an End to Immigration Detention
We went to the 12th surround Yarl's Wood demonstration outside the immigration removal centre in Bedfordshire. But despite a recent abuse scandal, an increase in detention deaths, and a charter flight the day before, the turnout was small and the mood different to past protests.
5 Ways to Help End Deportations and Stop Charter Flights
On Tuesday night, activists blocked the runway at Stansted airport and stopped a charter flight to Nigeria and Ghana. Here are five ways to get involved with the fight to end deportations and stop charter flights.
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Immigration Detention & Deportation: A View From Jamaica
Indefinite detention and sudden deportation are staples of policing UK borders. Luke de Noronha talks to Jamaican deportees who have been through this system, to find out more about life at the sharp end of UK immigration law.  
Contesting Detention: A #ShutDownYarlsWood Photo Essay
A recent Movement for Justice protest at Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre was the largest yet, attended by an estimated 1000 people. This photo essay explores the voices of those inside and outside the detention centre as pressure builds to shut it down.