>From: BMacKeith@???
>Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 15:25:47 EST
>Subject: appeal re April anti detention actions- please circulate in Italy
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>Invitation to join in first annual international
>action against immigration detention, April 2006
>
>To all organisations and individuals opposed to
>the detention of refugees and other migrants.
>
>You are invited to participate in a period of
>actions against immigration detention in
>countries around the world in April 2006 including the weekend of 15-16 April.
>
>This invitation is from:
>· Refugee Action Coalition (Sydney, Australia)
>· Refugee Action Collective (Melbourne, Australia)
>· Refugee Rights Action Network (Perth, Australia)
>· Refugee Action Committee (Canberra, Australia)
>· Refugee Action Collective (Brisbane, Australia)
>· Rural Australians for Refugees
>· Barbed Wire Britain Network to end refugee and migrant detention (UK)
>· Campaign to Close Campsfield (UK)
>· London Against Detention UK)
>· London No Borders (UK)
>Further organisations will be named on the websites below as they sign up.
>
>The aim is:
>· to spread opposition to detention
>· create contacts between anti-detention groups in different countries,
>· move towards a more prepared and larger second
>period of international anti detention actions in April 2007
>
>Actions planned are:
>· In Australia: a convergence at Villawood detention centre in Sydney
>· In the UK, demonstrations at:
>* Harmondsworth and Colnbrook detention centres
>* Campsfield detention centre
>* Communications House reporting centre in central London
>· In Germany: various actions to be advised.
>· And others to be notified
>
>Please send updates and details on events or actions to:
>· info@??? for the British
>web site barbedwirebritain.org.uk
>· refugeeaction@??? for the Melbourne web site www.rac-vic.org
>· info@??? for the Sydney web site www.racnsw.net
>· rran@??? for the Perth web site www.rran-wa.org
>· admin@??? for Rural Australians for Refugees
>
>Demonstrations, meetings and other public events can be organised at:
>· immigration detention centres
>· in town and city centres
>· at reporting centres and similar places where
>migrants report to the authorities and from
>which they may be removed to a detention centre or deported
>· at government offices, e.g. interior ministry
>· at offices of private companies that manage detention centres
>
>This call follows many years of campaigning
>around the world, including European days of
>action on 31 January 2004 and 2 April 2005, when
>there were some fifty anti-detention actions
>from Scandinavia to southern Italy and from
>Spain to Greece, the biggest being led by migrants and in the south of Europe.
>
>3 March 2006
