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Reggio Emilia: 1st May of Irregular Workers
Over one thousand migrants in Reggio Emilia to request a “sanatoria immediately”
More than one thousand migrants participated at the demonstration of the 1st of May organized by the Commitee of Irregular Workers. The procession of demonstrators crossed the streets and squares of the town, shouting "Enough with the speculations on our backs, sanatoria immediately". On the occasion of the International Worker’s day, the Commitee of Irregular Workers, started up the the last 25th of March, arranged a meeting at the railway station of Reggio Emilia with those invisibles and (...)   [ 2 May 2007 ]
For what it worthed the De Mistura’s Commission?
A comment to the conclusive relationship of the commission that has estimated the Italian CPT
The De Mistura’s commission has finally rendered the conclusions of its surveying public on Temporary Permanence Centers(CPT) and identification centers and attendance centers for immigrants on the Italian ground. After months of visits inside of all structures on the territory, of questionnaires introduced to the local institutions and of data collection consulting some associations, the verdict has been finally emitted. In the first place, before of relate to the content of the (...)   [ 5 March 2007 ]
CPT: the Relationship of the ministerial Commission
Rendered famous from the Ministry of the Interior the relationship of the Commission on the CPT, started from the Minister Giuliano Amato in order to verify the conditions of the Centers of Temporary Permanence. It unloads the Relationship of the Commission on the CPT   [ 3 March 2007 ]
Africa as Europe: better letting them die than setting a precedent
In this moment there are 400 men in the middle of the sea without water nor food. Maybe there are more, but we know for certain only these 400. They are off Mauritania since four days, according to what Cinzia Gubbini writes in the article we published in our website on february 7th. We tried to get some information, to glance all the newspapers, today such as yesterday, hoping that someone talked, if not about some news, at least about the event. But not a word has been said about it, in (...)   [ 8 February 2007 ]
Left in the Desert: Hundreds of Refugees Arrested and Deported from Morocco
From Indymedia
Over 250 Sub-Saharan Africans have been arrested by the Moroccan authorities in raids that took place in different quarters of Rabat on December 23rd, 2006. Among the arrested were women and children refugees and asylum seekers. Six buses, accompanied by the army, then carried them to Oujda on the Algerian borders. At about 11pm, the buses crossed the border at 3 different points and the migrants were left in the middle of nowhere [see below for details]. Blockades by the Special Police (...)   [ 2 January 2007 ]
UK - Riot in Harmondsworth Immigration Prison.. Again
From Indymedia UK
Frustrated at being detained in awful prison-like conditions, often for long periods, the detainees of Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow, have ’gone wild’. Around 10pm on 28 November, 2006, a group of detainees started a riot in Wing B after a guard switched off the TV preventing them from watching a report about Harmondsworth, and it soon spread to all 4 wings. Some detainees have reportedly been beaten up, while others were kept locked in, with fires and smoke all over the (...)   [ 1 December 2006 ]
Janitors’ Victory in Houston Sparks Hope for New Era of Economic Gains for Families in America
City-wide union contract will more than double income for more than 5,300 janitors and families, latest victory in national fight for good jobs with health care Houston - On the heels of a string of victories in Miami, Los Angeles and Boston that have resulted in dramatic gains for families, more than 5,300 janitors in Houston won higher wages, more hours, and health insurance in their first city-wide union contract. The contract will lift hundreds of janitors out of poverty, more than (...)   [ 24 November 2006 ]
Usa - Reading the ethnic vote
Up Front Radio’s weekly roundup of news from ethnic media.
From NewAmericaMedia
Up Front Radio studies past week vote in Us. Listen to the weekly transmission. [ audio ]   [ 14 November 2006 ]
Italy-Libya: the axis of shame
Human Rights Watch accuses Italy of illegal repatriations from its shores
Torture, beatings and sexual abuse: just a few examples of the abuses suffered every day by migrants who are detained by the Libyan authorities, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch. Torture, beatings and sexual abuse: according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW), these are just a few examples of the abuses suffered every day by migrants who are detained by the Libyan authorities. Abuses to which the Berlusconi government made itself accomplice by (...)   [ 15 October 2006 ]
Reports from October 7th - Actionday against Fortress Europe
Report from Bologna & Reggio Emilia - Italy Self organized struggles against the left center Italian Government Commission De Mistura: a swindle for migrants! On friday the 6th several activists of two “centri sociali” made a sit-in protest outside migrants’ detention centre in Bologna during the visit of the Governmental Commission headed by Onu’s representant Stapphan De Mistura. This Commission is composed by members of the parliament, members of local institutions and members of NGO (...)   [ 11 October 2006 ]
Actionday 07 Oct 2006 - Statement to all social movements!
This statement was written from some people, who are involved in the networking for migration struggles across Europe and Africa. It provides an overview on planned actions (and will be updated until the actionday).   [ 20 September 2006 ]
I was a slave in Puglia
By Fabrizio Gatti
From L’Espresso
Exploited. Underpaid. Lodged in filthy shacks. Beaten to death if they complain. Diary of a week in hell amidst the foreign laborers in the province of Foggia. The boss wears a white shirt, black trousers and dusty shoes. He’s from Puglia, but he hardly speaks Italian. To make himself understood he seeks the assistance of his bodyguard, a Maghrebin who is in charge of keeping everything under control in the fields. "Find out what this guy wants. If he’s looking for work, tell him we don’t (...)   [ 5 September 2006 ]
Italy - No border camp in Gorizia - Nova Goriza, a step further.
Report of the initiative taking place in july 006
From 19 to 23 of July took place the first no border camp on the border between Italy en Slovenia. It has been organized by the Social Center "Clandestino" in Gorizia-Nova Goriza, by the Area of Social Disobedience and by the Slovenian network "Dost Je" The event saw the participation, every day, of at least 150 people from various cities and social centers in Italy, in Slovenia, Austria, France, England. The main focus of the camp was the dispositive of administrative detention that (...)   [ 30 July 2006 ]
Some news about the experience of the Cap Anamur
By Fulvio Vassallo Paleologo, University of Palermo, Italy
The judge for the preliminary hearing at Agrigento has decided to commit Elias Bierdel and the captain and the first officer of the Cap Anamur for trial. The Cap Anamur is the German vessel which was involved in the notorious case in which the Italian, German and Maltese governments refused to disembark shipwreck survivors picked up in the Canal of Sicily between Lampedusa and Libya. After a two year investigation during which the testimony of multiple witnesses was heard it seemed that (...)   [ 10 July 2006 ]
The Center for aliens in Veliki Otok near Postojna (SLO)
This article is an abstract from "Immigrants, who are you? - A research on immigrants in Slovenia", written in 2002 by Mojca Pajnik, Petra Lesjak-Tusek, Marta Gregorèiè. Download the complete research The center is situated on the outskirts of town. It has been in operation for several years now, but no significant xenophobic reactions by local people, comparable to those in Šiška, Ljubljana or Vidonci, were recorded. From the outside the establishment seems not to be in use – a (...)   [ 11 June 2006 ]
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