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, Austraula)
- 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:
The following organisations support this International action:
- No One Is Illegal (Montreal, Canada)
- Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike (UK)
- All African Women's Group (UK)
- Wake Up Congo (UK)
- SOS Immigration (UK)
- Cross Roads Women (UK)
- Payday (a men's network working with the Global Women's Strike)
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