[noborders-brum] Re: Proposal from London No Borders 4 a gathering

[sara b]

Hi all,

we had a london No Borders meeting last night and we'd like to propose the 
weekend of sat 11th & sun 12th march at The Square Occupied Social Centre, 
21 Russell Square, London WC1, as a concrete time and place for the No 
Borders gathering.

we can sort out accommodation for anyone who needs it on friday & saturday 
night but it would be helpful to know numbers in advance.

In terms of making an agenda, thanks Birmingham for the offer of the wiki, 
but not everyone in our group is confident about using one, so we'd like to 
suggest instead, starting a thread on the no borders bulletin board set up 
by glasgow, which is at www.noborders.org.uk

Some initial suggestions we'd like to see as part of the gathering are:
1. a practical workshop about visiting people in detention/detainee 
support/stoping deportations.  (At the moment we have a lot of new people in 
London who want to get involved in this & we feel like other No Borders 
groups may be in a similar situation.)

2. a discussion about non-compliance of people who work in social 
work/housing/teaching/healthcare etc. who are resisting enforcing border 
regimes in their workplaces - and perhaps asking people from manchester who 
have been resisting section 9, both campaigners & social workers, of what 
they actually did on a practical level, and how this could be replicated.

3. Discussion about a day of action in the UK in April, against detention 
centres, in solidarity with the week of action at Baxter detention centre in 
Australia.

All ideas & comments welcome!

cheers,
Sara

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>    hello,
>
>   some people from the wales group would also like to come to a country
>wide meet up, is it definitely going to be the 4/5 weekend of march?
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> > Hello from No borders Sheffield..
> > we very much like the idea of UK wide noborders meeting, we would like
> > to propose to have it in a more central location and offer Sheffields
> > Social Centre Matilda
> > http://www.matilda.aktivix.org
> > for the potential next time....as such to allow people from north and
> > south to come...
> > we will come to London with at least two on the 3rd-4th....
> > Best
> > No borders sheff
> >
> >
> > Am 07.02.2006 um 23:29 schrieb Shiar:
> >
> >>
> >> Great!
> >>
> >> I guess then we should start working on a draft agenda and the like.
> >> One
> >> idea is to use Make Borders History's wiki:
> >> http://wiki.makebordershistory.org/index.php/Main_Page
> >>
> >> I've already put up a heading for No Borders meeting in the Events
> >> section
> >> there, with a couple of subtitles. Feel free to change or add anything.
> >>
> >> Personally, 11-12 March would be better for me, but even 3-4th is all
> >> right.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> --
> >> Shiar
> >>
> >> sara b <sara_b37 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> PLEASE FORWARD TO OTHER NO BORDERS GROUPS
> >>>
> >>> We discussed at the last meeting of No Borders (London) to circulate a
> >>> proposal amongst No Borders groups around the country to all meet up
> >>> for a
> >>> gathering.
> >>>
> >>> Over the past year, new groups have formed using the name/banner "No
> >>> Borders" and therefore will feel that, though informal, we can
> >>> potentially
> >>> create a relationship with different groups with the view of
> >>> strengthening
> >>> the resistance and level of agititation against the Border regimes,
> >>> restrictions of movement and all deportations.
> >>>
> >>> During the last few months since London No Borders was formed we have
> >>> been
> >>> attempting to develop a political strategy which encompasses the
> >>> following:
> >>>
> >>> 1.Detainee support group (providing access to good lawyers, bail
> >>> surities,
> >>> money, visiting, actions)
> >>> 2.Defiance NOT Compliance (supporting workers who resist the states
> >>> plans
> >>> to
> >>> enforce internal border controls in services and the workplace -
> >>> social
> >>> services/housing/healthcare/education..etc)
> >>> 3 Close down detention centres & reporting centres (support
> >>> anti-detention
> >>> centre campaigns).
> >>> 4.Global/European co-ordination (contributing to networks like
> >>> Frassinito,
> >>> participating in international days of action and previous calls for
> >>> action).
> >>>
> >>> Some of our ideas and activities have been inspired by other No
> >>> Borders
> >>> groups in the UK and we feel that any communication which can be
> >>> developed
> >>> would aid what we are all doing. In addition we would like to
> >>> construct a
> >>> forum which we can present some ideas for a unified day of actions in
> >>> the
> >>> UK
> >>> this April.
> >>>
> >>> GATHERING IDEAS:
> >>>
> >>> As this is just an intialy "feeler" for such a gathering we thought
> >>> the
> >>> first step was to suggest a possible date & location.  We hope to be
> >>> able
> >>> to
> >>> work on a structure together with other groups, with workshops and
> >>> discussions that encompass our political structure and enable us to
> >>> move
> >>> forward to tak eaction, and with the additional aim of welcoming those
> >>> with
> >>> an interest in becomming involved in No Borders activity.
> >>>
> >>> Date:
> >>>
> >>> Sat 4th/Sun 5th March or Sat 11th/Sun 12th March
> >>>
> >>> Location:
> >>>
> >>> Ex-SSEES Occupied Social Centre - Central London
> >>>
> >>> We welcome any responses or suggestions from other No Borders groups.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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