Benefit - London, Chat's Palace Saturday July 21

London No Borders presents:

PUBLIC MEETING & BENEFIT PARTY FOR GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP

Part of a campaign to stop the new Gatwick detention centre.

SATURDAY 21st JULY 3pm-midnight Chat's Palace Community Arts Centre ( http://www.chatspalace.com ) 42-44 Brooksby's Walk, Homerton, London E9 Nearest station Homerton Silverlink, buses 242, 276, S2 and W15

A day & night of discussions, films, food and live music in solidarity with migrants & refugees.

3pm : 'Underground Londoners' - Film and talk from London's tube cleaners, many of whom are undocumented migrant workers, about their campaign for a living wage.

4pm: Detainee Self-help Support Project: An insight into the UK immigration detention, struggles from the inside, and support and solidarity from the outside, by ex-detained Kenyan asylum seeker and activist George Mwangi.

5pm: Sink or Swim: Climate change and environmental refugees The small pacific island of Tuvalu is sinking - year by year, the low lying island is being washed away by rising seas caused by climate change. Eventually, the entire nation of Tuvalu will become refugees. Over half of the world's refugees are displaced for environmental reasons - from floods caused by the felling of forests, to oil spills and desertification. How the Global North consumes the world's resources and the waste and climate change this causes creates a huge number of refugees, many of whom we then detain and deport for seeking a better life. This workshop will explore the connections between climate change and migration, and the state's response.

5.30pm: PUBLIC MEETING ABOUT THE GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP, to take place from 19th-24th September 2007. Public meeting about the camp, and the campaign against the new asylum detention centre which is being built at Gatwick. This will be followed by a short film about a previous No Border Camp in Woomera (Australia).

7pm-midnight: BENEFIT PARTY - food & music

Main stage: music from
The Dubmasters(dub/ska)
52 Commercial Road (post rock)
Spanner (ska/punk)
Spit Roast(punk)

Room 2: Live acoustic music from:
Victor Menace(gypsy folk)
Ruth Theodore(political folk)
Grizla(indie folk rock)

Entry: Afternoon - free/donation
7pm-12pm - £5 waged/ £3 unwaged/ free to asylum seekers

Money raised will go to GATWICK NO BORDER CAMP - 19-24
September 2007 - Part of a campaign to stop the new
Gatwick detention centre.

http://www.noborders.org.uk
noborderslondon@riseup.net