Psycho Active Kinetic International. Trans Veralism

June 30, 2006

TASK FORCE BOYCOTTED

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Ustiben report
ROMA FORUM BOYCOTTS ENFORCEMENT TASK FORCE
By Grattan Puxon

Leading Romani representatives are to boycott further talks with a new enforcement task force
set up to push through UK government policy.

Angered by an increased emphasis on harassment  of Britain's so-called illegal Travellers, chair of the UK
Forum Cliff Codona said after an initial meeting this week members would not attend another session - at
least for the time being.

"This task force will do nothing to protect us or our way of life," Codona said. "It's all about destroying
what we have and what we stand for."

The ill-fated task force was in trouble from its inception by Housing Ministry Yvette Cooper earlier
this month. A complaint has been made to the Commission  for Racial Equality that inclusion of the word Gypsy in its
title (whilst no Gypsy members were named) inferred an act of crude discrimination.

Furthermore, the Ministry has been challenged for combining in one unit the tasks of enforcement - in
practice mostly involving bulldozing Gypsy-owned properties - and accommodation provision. Critics
say these should be seperate areas of policy.

For now the task force has police officers on board but no Gypsies.

The deal on the table appears to involve government subsidized council-run caravan parks,
which are likely to be substandard ghettoes, in return for yet harsher harassment where Travellers find themselves
outside the law. This includes 4,000 caravans either parked illegally or sited on Gypsy-owned land without
planning consent.

This approach, says the UK Forum is both outdated and one-sided. Reburbishment of
existing local authority sites and the building a new generation of caravan parks are needed. But  a preference
for private ownership and management by the community must be recognized.

The Gypsy and Traveller Law Reform Coalition, now replaced by a federation of front-line
Gypsy organisations, lost credit over its failure to reflect the real aspirations of Britain's 350,000 Gypsies,
Travellers and newly-arrived Roma.

"Many Travellers have bought land - on the advice of the government," says Codona. "We
prefer to live on our own places not council sites."

The boycott, coupled with plans to bring a test case to the Court of Human Rights, has put the
task force in a predicament. Sasha Barton, leader on Gypsy policy at CRE denies that government
focus is on enforcement against Gypsies as an ethnic group, while conceding they will be more
affected than others
However, CRE believes that in appointing a high level group Yvette Cooper should invite
Gypsy and Traveller representatives to join the task force, and intends to follow up on this
issue.

Meanwhile, a rump of non-Gypsy former GTLRC members are considering their options.
Should they decide to ignore the boycott and accept  seats on the government task force, they would
undoubtably draw the ire of leading Gypsy spokesmen.

The break-up of the coalition took place amid bitter acrimony. The UK Forum, linked to
the Strasbourg-based European Roma Forum, says it welcomes support of all kinds, from
lawyers, planners and teachers. Only the era of  the gadjo or non-Gypsy expert is past. It warns
that such blatant usurpation now could lead to an ugly final split.

"We're the ones suffering eviction and have every right to speak for ourselves," Codona
commented. "We don't need outsiders to represent us."

He said although critical of its approach, the UK Forum was not entirely breaking off contact
with the new task force. Condona wants group members to visit some of the main trouble-spots and
see what is happening to Gypsy families facing eviction and constant move-ons.

Residents at Dale Farm, the largest community of its kind in Britain, are appealing against plans by
Basildon council to spent up to £3 million destroying some 86 homes. Seven police vehicles made an
unannounced incursion into the settlement a few days ago in an apparant dry run. A judicial review supported
by CRE is due to be heard in November.

Basildon has already spend £360,000 in legal  fees and the hiring of Gypsy eviction specilists
Constant & Co. Four yards have been demolished at  Hoverfields Drive but another three on nearby
Gipsy Hill were this month granted four years planning permission by the Ministry of Housing.

In contrast, an appeal by Codona to be allowed to move back onto his own land in
Bedfordshire has again been opposed. His model  Woodside caravan park once accommodated
over 50 families.

"They smashed up our homes," said Codona.
"Now  Mid-Bed council says I owe them thousands of pounds for the eviction and claim I don't have the
money to put the site back in order - so they won't let me return."

Hundreds of other families across Britain have fallen victim in a similar way. Planning regulations are
being used as a smoke screen for ethnic-cleaning. Until  this unpalatable truth is recognised, Codona feels further
dialogue is pointless. He has asked Yvette Cooper to provide a monthly report on the work of the task force.

If and when tangible progress is made, the UK Forum will bring its team back to the table.
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June 29, 2006

Psycho Active Kenetic International Trans Versalism

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INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT REVOLUTION Psycho Active Kenetic International – Trans Valuation AGAINST PSYCHOPATHIC GEOMETRY
 

  A psychopathic geometry –objectification and dehumanization is  essential for war and the perspectival split between “us” and “them” – the definging  of perspectives based on border policing and defence.
      
      It is the geometry of concentration camps like Campsfield,  Colnbrook, Guantanamo, torture planes (extraordinary rendition) and universalized detention regime in countless facilities all over this world. Setting the
debate  in terms of immigratin falls into this trap – and splits the proletariat –  those sections of the working classes who actively reject their passive role in  an exploitative and murderous system. It is this same system
that legitimates  the destruction of peoples homes – whether that be travelers
in Essex, England,  Palestine, Zimbabwe, Darfur or anywhere. It is achieved by
the reduction of  human beings to 0-dimensional points on a 2-dimensional
plane. 
      
      This is why we wish to advance the word DIASPORA rather than  “immigrant” – in
order to concentrate on the increasing Nazionalism embodied by  the state and
media assault on the proletariat. We also wish to extend the analysis  of the Immigrant Holocaust  from concentration  camps to the extermination zones – the war and starvation zones where from starvation  alone, an estimated 30,000 people die – today and every day that the capitalism  continues to dminate the planet.
      
      The differences between a concentration camp and a commune or  any other point
, node or vertex of the psychopathic geometry of advanced capitalism  is only known by class or situ-analysis which, by adding dimensions ( such as  those of origin and magnitude of events in time, to the dimensions of length and
width of space), we can begin to explode psychopathic geometry and create a defence and attack against the forces  of death, oppression and psychopathic power.

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The Immigrant Holocaust

AN OPEN PETITION TO THE WORLD:   

The immigrant holocaust

We the persecuted immigration detainees of Colnbrook.i.r.c, with one voice hereby cry out to the prime minister and members of the honourable parliament to come to our aid and save us from what we are convinced is an extra-judicial, highly unethical, and criminal violation of international human rights and fundamental freedoms, as protected by international conventions. Immigration is a bumbling giant that is grossly abusing the powers granted it in various policies. It even goes as far as violating its own published policies. This abuse of power we know cannot be to the knowledge of the prime minister, and parliament as they are obscene and barbaric to say the least.

The IND operates by hidden, and undisclosed policies that are criminally malevolent, and if a drastic action is not taken to control this “runaway train”, there will be dire a consequences in the international embarrassment these actions of immigration would cause the government and people of the United Kingdom.

The systematic guerrilla warfare being waged against immigrants and refugees by the IND has now blown open into an all out war. The Home office no longer tries to cover up its true intentions to eliminate all immigrants and refugee from the UK. This fact was clearly stated last week by an under cover, inspection of Colnbrook detention centre by the Home office secretary, John Reid, under the pretence of meeting with asylum seekers. Very much like the “Fuhrer” visiting his precious “Auschwitz”. No asylum seeker ever saw; talk less of spoke to the Home secretary. He was surrounded by such a crowd of security and body guards. If the home office’s intentions were clean, why would they sneak in the home secretary, in such a clandestine manner, that most detainees never knew that he was there until he had left.

The home office was so secretive about his visit that even detention custody officers, who work everyday with the detainees, were not aware, or so they claimed. But apart from all that, the big question is why the secrecy and falsehood? If the IND was really honest, they would admit the evil which their concentration camps around the country, have come to represent. If and when an international investigation of the crimes against humanity perpetrated by the IND is carried out, and the true extents of these atrocities are exposed, the convicts of Nuremberg would turn in their graves.

Call us melodramatic, but we speak with the authority of all detainees in this centre, who are willing to testify to the animosity with which they are treated… And melodramatic or not, the fact remains that the similarities between the UK detention centres and the third Reich’s concentration camps, are startling and will fill any human being with a conscience, with dread. Especially if one considers the newest mechanism of torture employed by Colnbrook IRC. In the last couple days they have mysteriously, “run out of food” before everyone has eaten, covertly introducing starvation, to the list of atrocities. But this is nothing new, in comparison to what is currently the most evil immigration establishment anywhere on earth, the ALL BARBARIC HARMONDWORTH, UKDS.

These covert deaths camps, or are they “detention centres” are extremely talented in the art of psychological and physical torture, and dehumanising treatment. Places like Haslar and Hamondworth where detainees are routinely beaten and starved, stripped naked and exposed to extreme temperatures, and grievous bodily harm, for the slightest of demonstrations or protest. Shameful examples are the men who were stripped naked, beaten, and same instances almost crippled, for speaking to the press, during organised peaceful demonstrations. Another who was stripped to his briefs and kept in solitary confinement in extreme cold of mid winter in Harmondworth, or is it the man who was force fed when he persisted on his eight month hunger strike in Colnbrook, (by which time he would readily qualify as a holocaust survivor, just liberated) or a disabled man who had to undergo forty eight hours of a sickle cell crisis without medical attention at Doncaster, and was later transferred to London in agony when the refusal of the centre manager to call the ambulance sparked a mass unrest among the detainees.

The list of dehumanising, degrading, torturing treatment of immigrants is as endless as the list of its victims all over the UK

All that is left for history’s replay to be complete are the “gas chambers”, although the might prove not to be needed because detainees are committing suicide or attempting it so often, to save the executioner the trouble, and the gas bills. A sad, and alarming example are the three separate suicide attempts at Colnbrook’ C’ Unit, within twelve hours, or a week later another also followed in his predecessors’ desperate steps to end their suffering at the hands of the IND. All these individuals are available to testify in any investigation.

We would like to highlight a few of the more obvious similarities of the Jews of 1945 and the immigrants of 2006.

Liberty:

The Jews or “illegal immigrant”, or “failed asylum seekers” are summarily rounded up in dawn raids from their unsuspecting homes, arrested on the streets, in market places, at their work places, and even in phone booths.

  • Detention is the first and only option considered.
  • Most are continually detained even though their cases cannot be resolved anytime soon, because they have appeals, and high court reviews ongoing
  • Children and whole families are detained.
  • Able and disable, health or sick there are no distinctions by the Gestapo or “immigration officers”.
  • Their property is randomly confiscated and looted.
  • They are shackled, beaten and humiliated in public places.
  • They are not given a fair hearing, nor allowed any proper representation.
  • They are coerced, into making statements under duress, so as to provide false evidence to be used against them, or fellow detainees.

Detention:

  • They are detained for the longest period imaginable until death, forced deportation, or God rescues them.
  • In conditions that would make a Billy goat ill.
  • Starved, roasted, or frozen in non-ventilated cells
  • Castigated, defamed, and persecuted by agents of Reich like the tabloid press, e.g the all ignorant NEWS OF THE WORLD.
  • Detained in contravention international conventions, and the rule of law.
  • Discriminated against, routinely in the interpretation of laws, and policies.
  • Detained at the furthermost distances firm their families and legal representatives, to prevent their contact with outside world.

Treatment:

  • This is surely the clincher, as even S.S. Gen. Heinrich Himmler himself couldn’t have done any better, or is it worse?
  • The Jews are denied medical attention especially in emergencies.
  • They are constantly subjected to indiscriminate searches and intensely intrusive physical contact from total strangers.
  • They are forced to take showers with cold water, in the open, in the full glare of female detention officers.
  • They are constantly beaten, assaulted, insulted, and isolated for the slightest “infringement” or protests.
  • Verbal, racial, and psychological abuses are the major weapons of their torture.
  • Physical violence during forced removals, shackles, leg irons, tranquilizers are the norm.

The greatest malevolence of all is the social stigma placed on immigrants by the Gestapo immigration, and its propaganda machine: its most powerful tool of psychological warfare against immigrants. This propaganda machine is the tabloid press, highly influential, and made up of prominent NAZI, party members like Mazher “judas” Mahmood of the News of the World newspaper – who is in competition with the Gestapo immigration in the head hunting for, and kidnap of the Jews. Also fellow fascists like the BNP, the Sun, Mirror, Daily Mail, have vested interests in the demonising and social crucifixion of immigrants. This is very clear in their objectives, as pointed out by their turning the phrase “asylum seekers” into a synonym for “psychopathic career criminal”.

We have become so consumed we cannot even decide where to stop. The evils go on forever; how does one even begin to say enough? But we are Christians. Believers in God, and His son, the saviour, Jesus Christ. We believe that God will stir up the hearts that read this into showing compassion to the persecuted immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees. I believe that just as God thwarted the ambitions of the third Reich in exterminating the Jews in 1945, the God who is “the same yesterday, today and forever” will also bring to nothing but failure, the extermination, and psychological terrorism of the immigrants today.

One thing we know for certain, no matter how long this lasts, one day we shall see the sun, and our morning will come. As in the words of God, in the Holy Bible: “Though weeping lasts in the night, but joy comes in the morning”.

We would like to use this opportunity to humbly ask for the immediate cessation of these hostilities against us immigrants. We respectfully demand fair treatment: the immediate release of every detainee in detention for over 28 days, the stoppage of all forced deportations, the granting of temporary work permits to enable us earn a living, and a relaxation of the strict conditions any release granted.

We also beg for an independent committee to be set up by the parliament to investigate the activities of the IND, the AIT, and the detention centres, as these bodies are guilty of breaching government policies, and international conventions. We beg this discretion of the parliament, with all our distressed but humble hearts, pleading in the name of all the humanitarian virtue, justice, and freedom that the UK has stood, and still stands for, in the international community. We want to believe that someone out there does not believe asylum seekers and immigrants are the monsters they have been made out to be. That they are human beings only trying to fulfil the most basic of human instincts: SURVIVAL. We hope there are still people with more scruples and principles than Mr. Mazher Mahmood, who will put humanity before personal, and political benefits, and will come to the rescue of we lowly immigrants; we are persecuted, isolated, and alienated, the least a civilised society like the UK can give us is an objective, and fair scrutiny. In the words of our lord Jesus Christ: blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. We beseech you; show us MERCY, and the lord GOD will also have mercy on, and reward you.

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June 27, 2006

JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE COLNBROOK DETAINEE’S FORUM ON THE 26/06/2006 :

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JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE COLNBROOK DETAINEE’S FORUM ON THE 26/06/2006 :

We the detainees of Colnbrook IRC have come to the conclusion that we are being held hostage b y a monster that appears to be out of control by its creator. Like a Dr.Frankenstein, who lost control of his creature, the Home Office has now completely lost control of its three headed monster, the IND, the AIT and Detention Centres. These three organisations have turned into a coven of evil, promoting heart rendering injustice, bone crunching torture, psychologically destabilising malevolence, and spiritually crushing, methods of handling immigrants. We have run out of pleas and petitions, or reason to explain, or question, the ethics behind an organisation that dedicates itself to the dehumanisation of already distressed, displaced, and disturbed people. Below, we pull three cases out of the hat, as examples of three categories of immigrants in detention here.

 

(a). Group A: -Asylum seekers, refugees who fled their native country, forced to abandon their wife, children and all they loved to save their life, all they want in life are to survive, and live in safety. They have always complied with the condition given them. They were detained when they went to make their weekly report in the immigration office, and since then they have been at Colnbrook IRC. They marked many months in detention during the refuge week. What disturbs these people the most, apart from their indefinite imprisonment without a crime, is that they cannot be in contact with their family. They are haunted by what may happen to their families. They suffer psychologically, and they are a chronic insomniacs, they can sometimes be seen talking to themselves, and they have become, or so forgetful, detached, absent minded, and can hardly concentrate when they are spoken to. Some finished their studies in the UK, most were working and paying tax, had never committed any crimes, but are victims of this injustice all the same. Most are married to wives who have got status in the country. Some are socio-economic migrants or so called refugees from poverty. Mostly from third world countries wanting only to work and earn an income to support families, starving, sick, and poverty stricken.

Group B: is for the disabled who suffer a health problem, others handicap problems and they have never been able to earn an income to take care of them in their poverty stricken country. They have been detained for countless months, without proper medical attention, in a condition where there are no disabled access facilities. In their time in detention, they have been verbally and racially abused by officers and detainees alike. They are discriminated against by the Home Office in getting the special consideration given to people who are physically challenged in the “normal” society.

The third group C, which is a minority, are ex-convicts who although they have lived in England for a long time (some more than 20 years), have become political scapegoats, but there are no prospects of removing them. Most of these people have been in detention for more than the time they served in prison. An example, served a 9 month sentence for using a false passport, but now he has been in detention for 19 months, twice more than the period he spent in prison. If that is not double punishment, we do not know what it is. Mr C recently attempted d to commit suicide, after being refused bail for the seventh time, although he had voluntarily requested to return home many times. He is the picture of depression and he has developed the habit of hurting himself at every opportunity he gets. We worry about him a lot, and he is constantly under suicide watch. The above examples are all average detainees of Colnbrook, they are some less severe, and others more disturbed, but all in all they represent the three categories of people being persecuted by the three headed axis of evil, which is the IND, the AIT and the Detention Centres. We have repeatedly called for help and intervention, for an investigation of these crimes against humanity. We have appealed and will continue to appeal to whoever is willing to listen, to come to our aid, and exert some control, and restraint on this organisations. We are beginning to believe the silence which has greeted our cries is either inevitable because no one can help, or deliberate because no one will help, or no one is willing to or bold enough to help. This is why we have resolved to proceed on a declared hunger strike, to begin from the 22/06/2006[(we are 40) but others (five 5) started since 15/06/2006], until someone in authority takes notice of our plight.

We make the following requests with all respect for the authorities:

1. We humbly demand an audience with the immigration minister Liam Byrne, MP.

2. We request the parliament to set up an independent committee to investigate the injustices being perpetrated by the IND , the AIT and Detention Centres.

3. We request a temporary admission for any detainee in custody for over one month.

4. We humbly request for a temporary work permit for every detainee granted temporary admission, so they can earn a living, and support them. And to those who had work permits before detention, to be reinstated.

5. We request temporary NASS assistance for all detainees made destitute by the long periods of detention.

We have resolved that we will embark on any and every form of civil disobedience along with the hunger strike, to make sure our voices are heard. We have decided to go the whole hog. Although we are receiving persecution from DCOs because of our protests, we will not comply with their coercions until we get some results, and our plight is addressed.

We cannot go on like this; we are dying slowly, and painfully, in a land where we believed we would find solace, and survival. We hereby renew our cry to the parliament, the cabinet, the Home Office, the press the good people of UK, the European Union and the United Nations. Someone please hear us. Someone please listen to us, someone help us and answer us. We beseech you in the name of every humanitarian virtue, in the name of mankind, and above all in the name of God, the creator and judge of all men, stop this detention. Stop the killing of the spirits of countless able young men.

We plead for an AMNESTY FOR ALL.

Signed COLNBROOK DETAINNE FORUM

ADDENDUM: At the time of going to press with this statement Mr. Thomas Galazoe, CB: 14177, home office reference: G1076153 has been forcefully removed from his cell last night, by twenty officers, and as yet his whereabouts are unknown. He is married with wife and children, who have status in the U.K., and has a judicial review pending. He has never committed a crime, and was reporting when he was arrested. We know he was singled out because he was has been on hunger strike for over two weeks, he is protesting because according to the rules when a person has a judicial review pending, he should be released as his removal is not imminent. This is just another example of the injustice being meted out to us by the detention centres, with the full knowledge and connivance of the immigration. We ask for an immediate intervention for this man, who is so desperate, he is about to die.

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Villagers in North India begin Hunger Strike in protest against Coca-Cola

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Villagers in North India begin Hunger Strike in protest against Coca-Cola

Villagers Begin Hunger Strike to Demand Government Action Against Coca-Cola

June 27, 2006
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1071.html
Villagers in Mehdiganj in north India are on a hunger strike to demand the closure of the Coca-Cola bottling plant. Community leaders have accused the Coca-Cola bottling plant in of creating severe water shortages affecting over twenty villages, polluting agricultural land and groundwater, illegally occupying land, evading taxes and treating workers unfairly. The hunger strike comes exactly 3 months after the community initiated an indefinite vigil directly in front of the Coca-Cola factory. Community leaders have been frustrated by the lack of action from the government, and have embarked upon the hunger strike to emphasize the severity of the situation facing the communities.SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY BY SENDING A FREE FAX TO COCA-COLA
http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcoke.phpThe Case Against Coca-Cola in Mehdiganj
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1070.htmlKerala Government Assures Proactive Action Against Coca-Cola
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1069.html
In a major breakthrough for the campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable, the newly elected state government of Kerala in south India has assured community leaders that the government will take proactive measures against the Coca-Cola bottling plant in south India. Key community leaders met with the Chief Minister, Mr. V. S. Achutanandan, and cabinet members on June 15 and submitted a memorandum outlining their demands, including the permanent shut down of the Plachimada bottling plant, compensation to affected community members and the prosecution of the Coca-Cola company for criminal offences. The meeting resulted in significant commitments from the state government towards resolving the crisis.In The News
Health Minister Urges Celebrities Not to Endorse Soft Drinks
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1065.html
Coca-Cola Accused Over Uzbek Venture
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1068.html
Mehdiganj: Bottling Livelihoods
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1060.html
California, LA Sue Coca-Cola Over Lead Paint in Labels
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1063.html
Race Bias Suit Against Coca-Cola Bottling to Move Toward Trial
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2006/1066.html

June 21, 2006

Asylum from rape

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Press Conference
11am Friday 23 June 2006
Trinity United Reformed Church
Buck Street
Camden Town
London NW1

Launch of three tools in defence of rape survivors’ right to international protection ;

1. Misjudging rape – A Dossier of how adjudicators (now immigration
judges) flout international law and even their own guidelines when
they consider the asylum claims of women and girls seeking safety and
protection from rape.

2. Claiming asylum from rape – A Rights Sheet

3. Asylum from Rape Petition – calling on the government to
officially recognise rape as torture and persecution and therefore
grounds for asylum, and to end the detention and deportation of rape
survivors and their families.

Speakers:
Cristel Amiss – Black Women’s Rape Action Project
Dr Frank Arnold – Medical Justice Network
Sian Evans – Women Against Rape
Louise Hooper – Garden Court Chambers
Paul Nettleship – Sutovic & Hartigan solicitors
Constance Kajumba – All African Women’s Group 

Rape survivors, at least 50% of women seeking asylum, face unprecedented obstacles in pursuing their asylum claims. 

Because the specific persecution women face is not recognized by the UN Refugee Convention, rape survivors face an uphill battle establishing why they should be granted protection under the Convention.  Like women reporting rape generally (only 5.6% of reported rapes result in conviction), they face hostility and disbelief.  The Home Office and courts have ignored case law and international precedents to deny women protection.  Finding
respectful and thorough legal representation is virtually impossible and legal aid cuts mean that expert medical and other reports, without which claims are more likely to be dismissed, are seldom commissioned as supporting evidence.  Women and children are soft targets for politicians vying to show who is “toughest” on asylum.  When their asylum claims are closed, often before they have had a chance to speak in detail about the rape and other torture they have suffered, they and their children face destitution, detention and deportation.

To help overcome these obstacles and ensure women’s claims are comprehensively and sympathetically considered, Black Women’s Rape Action Project and Women Against Rape, in collaboration with All
African Women’s Group and Legal Action for Women, are launching three tools for rape survivors, legal representatives and all those concerned with human rights.

More information:
Black Women’s Rape Action Project -
bwrap@dircon.co.uk>bwrap@dircon.co.uk /
http://www.bwrap.dircon.co.uk/
Women Against Rape – war@womenagainstrape.net /
http://www.womenagainstrape.net/
Tel : 0207 482 2496, 07958 152 171 or 07980 659 831
Fax : 0207 209 4751

Letter to Press From Campsfield Hunger Strikers Campsfield Detainees

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Letter to Press From Campsfield Hunger Strikers Campsfield Detainees

16 June 2006

Dear Producers and Editors

I would firstly like to thank all the people who have shown concern for the way that Campsfield House and other detention camps are being run in the United Kingdom.

As a detainee in Campsfield I would like to confirm that all that has been said in the media was absolutely true and it would be greatly appreciated by all detainees if you could publish this letter.

I would like to bring to the attention of the government and other parties that this strike has nothing to do with the change of management at Campsfield. We are trying to deliver a message to the government. Please see below some of the main points which have led to the hunger strike:

Detainees are in a worse position than prisoners. This is because a prisoner knows the length of time of their sentence whilst detainees are innocent people who are kept in these detention centres indefinitely. Some people have been in detention for a few months but others have been confined for more than 2 years with no knowledge of when they will be released.

Most of the people in detention are genuine Asylum Seekers who have fled their country of origin because they have been persecuted, tortured, or face death. The government knows this but they pretend that they don’t understand.

These Asylum Seekers need protection but instead of listening to them, the government wants to make them scapegoats for the illegal immigrants in this country. The government appears to like people who come to the country, commit crimes and tell their lies, but if you tell the government the truth they say that you are fabricating things in order to remain in the country.

The government knows that some countries are not safe, yet they are forcibly deporting genuine Asylum Seekers back to them to face death. At the same time, non-genuine asylum seekers, who are willing to be returned to their countries, and even offer to purchase their own tickets in some cases, are being detained in these centres, or even released back into society. Where is the logic and fairness in this?

I would like to ask Tony Blair and his government how they can keep responsible people in detention for more than 3 months without a just reason? Their policies are destroying us psychologically and killing us slowly. I personally feel that I am unable to stand it much longer and so this government should not be surprised if something happens to me soon.

Some of the officers are lovely, caring people, but we want to highlight the approach of other officers who talk to us as though we are the scum of society and racially abuse us. One officer has had many complaints made against him but he remains in his job, free to abuse his trapped victims, knowing that he is safe. Even, maybe unsurprisingly, one of the Immigration Representatives is a racist, but detainees’ complaints fall on deaf ears.

We are treated as slaves. The government’s own laws state that failed Asylum Seekers must not do either paid or unpaid work yet they have us working in their detention centres, painting, gardening, clearing tables and mopping floors in return for £3 or £5 vouchers redeemable only in the detention shop. No minimum wage in detention. What is this new civilised slavery? This is government hypocrisy that allows for the exploitation of the people they round up and force into these centres.

Campsfield staff even tried to give vouchers to detainees if they agreed to end their hunger strike. They also used vouchers to try to bribe detainees to disclose the names of the people who organised the strike. One of the hunger strikers who has been given paracetamol, instead of treatment, for the last two weeks for severe tooth ache, has been refused pain killers since he started the strike.

The medical facilities in detention are bizarre. Sleeping tablets are given to people who have rashes. One detainee who has a bullet lodged in his knee has been refused an operation to remove it. The letter refusing his treatment was written on 27 April, yet he was only given it last week. Detainees who complain of serious illnesses are given paracetamol. The food served up is the same every day. Sometimes the previous day’s food is reheated the following day. You have a choice – chicken and rice, or chips with curry or gravy.

The man who climbed onto Campsfield’s roof on Monday 12 June 2006 was a Somalian man who had been living in this country for more than 10 years. He was an Asylum Seeker who had been given British citizenship and was living in Milton Keynes. He was arrested at a tube station as a suspected terrorist and put in prison for a year. After finishing his sentence he was kept in prison for a further 4 months. When he asked why he was being kept in prison he was transferred to Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre on 9 June 2006. He climbed onto the roof with a rope and plastic bag. He wanted the government and public to know that he had British citizenship and he was going to hang himself if he wasn’t released. Campsfield management called the police and ambulance services and a compromise was reached before he came down from the roof. None of us know what became of this man or where he was taken to by the police.

Campsfield’s refusal to allow journalists into the centre is an admission to the public that the detainees confined behind the barbed wire are not being treated humanely. The British government talks about human rights and the way that other countries should treat their citizens but where are Britain’s human rights?

We want the government to stop its hypocrisy and release the innocent people they herd into their detention centres.

Yours sincerely Campsfield Detainees Campsfield Detainees

 

GYPSY CAMP MASSACRE: LEAVE DALE FARM ALONE

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GYPSY CAMP MASSACRE: LEAVE DALE FARM ALONE

Rally at Basildon, Essex

1 August 2006

to Commemorate the Massacre at the Auschwitz Gypsy Camp – and make a
Final Plea to Malcolm Buckley to call off the £3million destruction of Dale Farm.

Planning Appeals Enquiry opens at Basildon Centre 10.30 am.
Demonstration starts
11am

contact: dale.farm@ntlworld.com

Children from Dale Farm will carry
black flags and
32-ft banner bearing a 2,000-name
Petition from Dale Farm Residents
Committee,

 

ETHNIC-CLEANSING : PAST AND PRESENT

Rudko Kawczynski, president of the European Roma and Travellers Forum in
Strasbourg says:

Roma and Travellers across Europe mark August 2 as a day to recall the persecution of
our people. We are reminded on this day of what can happen when prejudice and discrimination
are not controlled and addressed.

Statement by Richard Sheridan, chair of Dale Farm residents committee:

On the night of August 2 and 3, l944, several thousand of our people were
massacred in the Gypsy Camp at Auschwitz. This was just one event in thousands during the murder of 500,000 Roma, Gypsies and Travellers during the Nazi era.

Remembering them today, we must warn of the dangerous rise of racism and increased
activity of neo-Nazi groups, bother here and across Europe. We again feel threatened and
sometimes terrorised.

Here in Basildon, our district council led by Malcolm Buckley has voted to spend
nearly £3 million on the destruction of our homes at Dale Farm; according to his plan,
to be carried out by private Gypsy eviction specialists Constant & Co., backed we fear,
by Essex riot police, we and our children will be thrown out on the road and driven from
the area in an act of brutal ethnic-cleansing. This plan is opposed as “racially tainted” and disproportionate by both Labour and Liberal Party councillors, and by a growing number of local people.

Buckley, together with Tory MP John Baron, want us “cleared” from greenbelt land,
though much of Dale Farm was previously a scap-yard licensed by the council. They even
oppose our moving to a brownfield site at Pitsea, proposed by the Government.

The Nazis liquidated the Gypsy Camp at Auschwitz on 2 August, 1944.

On 1 August 2005, Buckley intended to destroy Dale Farm. Don’t let him try
again to bulldoze our homes.

http://antisystemic.org/ustiben

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