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<P><STRONG>Eh up all<BR><BR>Here's two events with a historical but practical slant taking place next week, which we have been asked to publicise... Both look like well worth while to us...<BR><BR>Hope you can attend<BR><BR>Some 'news' on the future of the long-dormant South London Radical History Group may well follow in the next few days/weeks...<BR><BR>...........................................................<BR><BR>event No 1:<BR><BR>Resistance in the UK's Detention Centres in the Last Decade <BR><BR>Time: 7 pm, Tuesday 24 June 2008<BR>Venue: T&GWU, Transport House, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8TN <BR><BR>Asylum-seekers and migrants who have been locked up indefinitely by the British state are carrying out on of the most sustained fight-backs in theUK in recent years. Three major detention centres (out of 22) have been destroyed, forcing the government to release hundreds of detainees. Hunger-strikes, occupations, naked protests, dirty
protests and successful break-outs involving tens and hundreds of detainees have become a regular feature of immigration detention. The government has reacted with brutal levels of repression, using assault, segregation and transfers to prisons to punish the protestors. <BR><BR>The UK government has also tried several times to prosecute those involved in large-scale riots. This has rarely resulted in convictions and has more often led to public humiliation for the government and the private detention contractors. The government is persisting in its plans to rebuild ruined wings and build completely new centres at Brook House (opening 2009), Yarl's Wood (opening 2010) and Bicester (opening 2012). These will provide more profit-making opportunities for the building contractors and private detention companies but in the end are likely to face the same level of protest. <BR><BR>Protests in detention centres are often ignored by the mainstream media
and also by political activists. London No Borders invites you to an info night to discuss why this is the case and to raise awareness of detention centre protests as one of the front lines of current political resistance. The primary aim is not to plan future actions but to discuss what has happened already and why it has had such a low profile. We particularly welcome ex-detainees who witnessed or participated in detention centre protests and ex-prisoners who could relate this issue to prisoners' struggles. <BR><BR>No Borders calls for the closure of all detention centres and an end to deportations<BR><BR>Email: </STRONG><A href="http://us.mc255.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=noborderslondon@riseup.net" ymailto="mailto:noborderslondon@riseup.net"></STRONG></FONT></SPAN><font color="red"><b>MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.mc255.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be</b></font> <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1213785165_0><FONT color=#003399><STRONG>noborderslondon@riseup.net</A><STRONG> <BR><BR>and Number 2: <BR><BR>Free Film show: FINALLY GOT THE NEWS -
Revolutionary black unions in Detroit, 1970s<BR><BR>Saturday 28th JUNE, 8pm Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton St, London SE17<BR><BR>Followed by discussion and chat. With speaker Brian Ashton, an ex-car industry shop steward.<BR><BR>Hosted by 56a Infoshop and Mute Magazine<BR><BR>Finally Got The News<BR>A Film by Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman and Peter Gessner<BR>Produced in Association with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers<BR><BR>FINALLY GOT THE NEWS is a forceful, unique documentary that reveals the<BR>activities of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers inside and outside<BR>the auto factories of Detroit. Through interviews with the members of the<BR>movement, footage shot in the auto plants, and footage of leafleting and<BR>picketing actions, the film documents their efforts to build an independent<BR>black labor organization that, unlike the UAW, will respond to worker's<BR>problems, such as the assembly line speed-up and inadequate
wages faced by<BR>both black and white workers in the industry.<BR><BR>Beginning with a historical montage, from the early days of slavery through<BR>the subsequent growth and organization of the working class, FINALLY GOT THE<BR>NEWS focuses on the crucial role played by the black worker in the American<BR>economy. Also explored is the educational 'tracking' system for both white<BR>and black youth, the role of African American women in the labor force, and <BR>relations between white and black workers.<BR><BR>"Although most histories of the <SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1213785165_1 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Civil Rights</SPAN> and Black Power movements give<BR>greater attention to [other groups]... the League [of Revolutionary Black<BR>Workers] was in many respects the most significant expression of black<BR>radical thought and activism in the 1960s. The League took the impetus for<BR><SPAN class=yshortcuts
id=lw_1213785165_2 style="CURSOR: hand; BORDER-BOTTOM: #0066cc 1px dashed">Black Power</SPAN> and translated it into a fighting program focusing on industrial<BR>workers."—Manning Marable, Director, Institute for Research in<BR>African-American Studies, Professor of History, Columbia University<BR><BR>"A classic! Rather than the lock-stepped, black-bereted, leather-jacketed<BR>Panther units of other films, FINALLY shows rather ordinary people becoming<BR>very angry with the system. Ideological in the best sense: it is a film<BR>about ideas [and] presents a serious strategy for mass working class<BR>action... It speaks of a specific time and specific experiences in terms<BR>that will remain relevant as long as working people are not able to control<BR>their own lives."—Dan Georgakas, for Cineaste<BR><BR>Hosted by 56a Infoshop<BR></STRONG><A href="http://www.56a.org.uk/" target=_blank></STRONG></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=yshortcuts id=lw_1213785165_3><FONT
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