[Cpt] Fwd: Re: ESF/FSE workshop on Detention and Deportation

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Author: Robert Elliot
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Subject: [Cpt] Fwd: Re: ESF/FSE workshop on Detention and Deportation
vi giro per conoscenza il programma proposto per il workshop sui CPT ecc.
che si terrà al ESF di Londra il 15 o 16 ottobre.
ciao
Rob Elliot

>From: Sarah James <sarah@???>
>Reply-To: sarah@???
>To: BMacKeith@???, schatziii@???,
>         ncadc@??? (NCADC), abousidick@???,
>         alana.lentin@???,
>         alana.lentin@???, markbrown150@???,
>         sheila@???, glascamref@???,
>         sady_campaign@???, ginn_emma@???,
>         droits-devant@???, carlichi@???, sarah@???,
>         cgtsasplas@???, goldfish1967@???, robert.elliot@???
>Subject: Re: ESF/FSE workshop on Detention and Deportation
>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:23:19 +0000
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>Cc: leonard.baden@???

>
>Dear All,
>Please reply regarding the ESF to myself and Gill Baden
>(leonard.baden@???) urgently. We have heard from almost no-one
>regarding this and urgently need to confirm speakers and arrange
>accommodation for them.
>
>Thank you Sarah and Alana for responding already.
>
>Hoping to hear from you soon,
>Sarah James
>sarah@???
>On Thursday 23 September 2004 21:12, BMacKeith@??? wrote:
> > (NB PLEASE REPLY TO GILL BADEN AND SARAH JAMES (ADDRESSES ABOVE), COPY TO
> > BILL: (BILL IS AWAY TILL 8TH OCTOBER.)
> >
> > Dear Invited speakers (see 'Speakers will be', below)
> >
> > Workshop:
> > 'Stop Detention and Deportation! For the Second European day of Actions
> > for Migrant Rights (26th \March suggested date)'
> >
> > Time and place
> > Friday 15th or Saturday 16th October in London at European Social Forum -
> > details will be sent to you when the ESF publishes the programme.
> >
> > Organisers:
> > Barbed Wire Britain Network to End Refugee and Migrant Detention (BWB) and
> > National Coalition of Anti Deportation Campaigns (NCADC)
> > Together with THE VOICE, Droits Devant !, Comitato Immigrati, Migreurop,
> > Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees
> >
> > Aim:
> > Receive reports of fighting against detention and deportation, preferably
> > from migrants themselves, and organise future actions / campaigns /
> > including for the Second European Day of Actions (to follow the First on
> > 31st January 2004)
> >
> > Finance:
> > BWB and NCADC are putting up £400. We have paid a fee of £125 for a good
> > sized room, so we have A TOTAL at present of £275 for speakers' travel
> > costs. PLEASE ASK YOUR ORGANISATION TO HELP TOWARDS YOUR OWN COSTS IF
> > POSSIBLE.
> >
> > URGENT ACTION BY YOU needed:
> > 1 Tell us the name of the speaker and any description (apart from name of
> > organisation)
> >
> > 2 Check what papers (visa) etc. you need to come to the UK and any
> > invitation letter you need personally from us. Give us the details of who
> > to write to and at what address. We can email or fax the letter. (See ESF
> > website or ask at UK consulate).
> >
> > 3 If you are definitely coming, buy a cheap return ticket to London NOW. We
> > will refund you in London (please bring receipt/ticket).
> >
> > Accommodation
> > We are appealing for beds for invited speakers in the homes of friends /
> > colleagues / comrades in London and are optimistic we can get accommodation
> > (for ones and twos, not large groups).
> >
> > Tickets for ESF
> > We will provide invitees with tickets on the Thursday night at a venue to
> > be announced. If we are lucky (we get the tickets early enough) the tickets
> > will include free travel within London.
> >
> > Meeting on Thursday evening
> > Probably this will happen, so we call meet, plan the Workshop, you get the
> > tickets, etc. Details to be announced.
> >
> > NB Invited speakers are asked to speak for 5-10 minutes (not more) so that
> > discussion can develop with contributions from the floor. The 5-10 minutes
> > includes any time required for translation.
> >
> > Translation
> > We do NOT have simultaneous interpreters. We hope to have translators
> > available for French, Italian, Spanish and German. To make good used of the
> > time, it would help if the main speeches were in English. (Just practical
> > Great English Language Chauvinism.)
> >
> > Chair of meeting
> > Emma Ginn of Stop Arbitrary Detention at Yarl's Wood is invited
> >
> > Speakers will be:
> > Lucky Jacobs, from Nigeria, former detainee at Yarl's Wood detention centre
> > (UK), the largest in Europe
> > Florence Okolo, successful campaigner against her own deportation (to be
> > confirmed) (UK)
> > Aboubakar Soumahoro, Cote d'Ivoire, Comitato Immigrati, Naples
> > Aamer Anwar, lawyer, Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees, campaigning
> > against Dungavel detention centre
> > And representatives of
> > CGT union, Spain, migrant workers
> > Sans papier / ere from Paris
> > Migreurope speaker on 'The new detention camps outside Europe'
> > THE VOICE, Germany
> >
> > Bail for Immigration Detainees and Asylum Aid (UK) have just published a
> > report on' Women in Detention' and I have asked them to contribute to the
> > discussion too.
> >
> > We are looking forward to seeing you and hearing what you have to say and
> > planning what to do next.
> >
> > Bill MacKeith
> > For Barbed Wire Britain and the National Coalition
>
>--
>Sarah James
>sarah@???