Southall Black Sisters Protest Racist UKBA – Eaton Home, Hounslow – Thu twenty fourth Oct 2013
Though I grew up in Hounslow, ten miles west of the centre of London, I’ve not typically returned there lately, and the protest organised by Southall Black Sisters exterior the Hounslow Reporting Centre on Thursday twenty fourth October 2013 was the one one I’ve up to now photographed within the city.
The UK Borders Company reporting centre is on the western fringe of the city, reverse Hounslow Heath the place highwaymen as soon as roamed and was the aerodrome from the place the British Empire’s first scheduled each day worldwide industrial flights took off in 1919. The big brick block as soon as housed the UK laboratory and manufacturing unit of US chemical manufacture Parke-Davis, as soon as the world’s largest pharmaceutical firm, now a subsidiary of Pfizer, who had arrange a dyestuffs manufacturing unit right here earlier than the primary world struggle, although the Analysis and Administration constructing in entrance of which the protest was held solely dates from 1954.
Southall Black Sisters (SBS) say that after the Refugee & Migrant Discussion board East London (RAMFEL) succeeded in its authorized problem over Theresa Might’s Dwelling Workplace promoting vans (which had been additionally criticised by the Promoting Requirements Authority) “the UKBA has shifted the ’Go Dwelling’ message to reporting centres in Glasgow, Croydon and Hounslow.”
Their protest towards the Authorities’s anti-immigration campaigns exterior the Hounslow reporting centre acknowledged “We won’t tolerate underhand ways used to instil worry and divide us. Allow us to return to the streets and make our voices heard. We have to combat for our rights.”
I joined the group of round 30 individuals, primarily SBS members, most sporting t-shirts with the message ‘Do I look unlawful?’, however they had been joined by others from Sol-Fed and different teams who had introduced a big banner with the message ‘F**Ok ALL RACISM – NO ONE IS ILLEGAL’.
And no particular person is unlawful, however these referred to as it lack permission to be right here, although many will in time be granted it. In France, such individuals are mentioned to be ‘with out papers’, however none of us within the UK wants papers to reside right here, so an acceptable however much less biased time period is perhaps ‘with out standing’. The time period ‘unlawful immigrants’, a intentionally biased description of people that don’t presently have a authorized proper to reside on this nation.
The protesters blew plastic horns and whistles and usually made plenty of noise, in addition to shouting quite a few chants together with ‘Theresa Might, drop the pretence, Go dwelling vans trigger offence’, ‘We’re people not unlawful, We would like justice for our individuals’ and ‘Cash for jobs and schooling, Not for racist deportation.’
The protest was nonetheless persevering with once I needed to go away. You may see extra about it on My London Diary at Southall Black Sisters Protest Racist UKBA.
3 Cosas Defy London College Protest Ban – Senate Home, Thu twenty fourth Oct 2013
The ‘3 Cosas’ marketing campaign is for sickpay, holidays and pensions for all employees on the College of London, the place many low paid employees are outsourced to corporations who make use of them typically within the authorized minimal wage and situations of service, and in addition typically make use of bullying managers to overwork workers. They typically fail to supply correct security tools to do the job.
The employees, a lot of whom are Spanish talking, have for some years been demanding they need to be straight employed by the college the place they work relatively than these contracting corporations, and there have by now been many lengthy and profitable campaigns to realize this.
The College administration in 2013 had responded to their marketing campaign with a ban of protests in and round Senate Home, and threatened to carry police onto campus to stop additional protests and to carry fees of trespass towards any protesters. This was seen by employees and workers and college students as an try to stop free speech and freedom of meeting on the college just like that of of authoritarian regimes abroad, rightly condemned throughout academia and the remainder of society.
On Thursday twenty fourth October, workers college students, the IWGB (Unbiased Staff of Nice Britain) commerce union which represents many cleaners and different commerce unionists defied College administration ban of protests by holding a loud protest in and round Senate Home.
After protesting on the streets across the Senate Home, a few of the protesters walked in round one other constructing whereas others scaled the gates to protest on the backside of Senate Home. Finally police got here and tried to cease them strolling out. However there have been too few of them to be efficient. The protesters walked out and ended their protest in entrance of SOAS.
Extra on My London Diary at 3 Cosas Defy London Uni Protest Ban.
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