[sheffield-noborders] Fwd: Proposal from London No Borders 4 a gathering

Wed Feb 15 11:05:32 GMT 2006

hi, everybody, I am afraid I can't do it on this weekend...
Stu, are you still up for going?
someone else from sheff?
would be good.
F.

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> Von: "sara b" <sara_b37 at hotmail.com>
> Datum: 10. Februar 2006 10:28:22 MEZ
> An: noborderswales at riseup.net, fab at in-no.org
> Cc: shiar at riseup.net, mickfuzz at rocketmail.com, 
> info at leedsnoborders.org.uk, noborders-brum at lists.aktivix.org, 
> katieplum75 at yahoo.co.uk, sheffcdas at btinternet.com, 
> sheffield-noborders at lists.aktivix.org, noborders-glasgow at riseup.net
> Betreff: Re: Proposal from London No Borders 4 a gathering
>
> 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
>
>>
>>
>>    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?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > 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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>> >>
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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