Workshops at the No Border Camp 2007

This is an incomplete list of the workshops at the No Border Camp 2007 (last update September 7th). There may be more and even spontanous workshops.

(Workshop) Starting a Targeted Anti-Corporate Campaign

A talk about targeting companies. The workshop will cover choosing targets, getting a campaign started and sustain a campaign long-term [Smash EDO Campaign (Brighton)]

(Workshop) Four years of cooperation between Palestinians, Israelis and internationals

Discussion of lessons of four years of cooperation between Palestinians, Israelis and international s against the Israeli state’s ideology and practice of separation and segregation [Anarchists against the wall]

(Workshop) Monitoring the immigration services and enforcement units, including tracking, documenting and blocking snatch squads

Discussion/exchange of ideas from a group of people who have tried to track and monitor the activities of the local enforcement unit and work out the patterns of activity of the immigration services so to support people at risk [Newcastle N.N.]

(Workshop) How to support detainees

A workshop including a phone line (via mobile) with detainees inside detention centres. Ideally the workshop will be run by ex-detainees now working with the group. To explain what DSG does, how it works and how people can get involved. [No Borders Detainees Support Group London]

(Workshop) Global apartheid and future closer collaboration between European and sub-Saharan groups interested in fighting the border regime of Fortress Europe

Co-facilitate a workshop around an understanding of both international migration and the barriers to migration and the way they are intertwined in both casualty and consequence with patterns and structures of international capitalism and global apartheid [The Freedom Centre (Ghana)]

(Workshop) Tube cleaners in London

A 30 min film, presentation and discussion

(Workshop) New racism and fascism

(Workshop) ID, migration control [Nottingham N.N.]

(Workshop) Sans-papiers movement in France

Sans-papiers struggle and the solidarity in the French schools with children of so called ‘illegal’ workers. A film and a collective reflexion about education/resistance to exclusion. How we can concretely create cracks in ‘fortress Europe’ imposed by patently strict – and unsaid racist - policies [Education Without Borders Network N (France)]

(Workshop) Setting up an anti-deportation campaign

A workshop for people facing deportation and their supporters, who are interested in setting up a public anti-deportation campaign. There will be a chance to discuss benefits of starting a campaign, what it takes to set up and run a campaign, and any concerns people have about putting themselves and the campaign into the public eye [NCADC E (UK)]

(Workshop) Outreach and campaigning

A workshop about what Barbed Wire Britain has learnt over 13 years about running a campaign with local roots eg. Involving local schools/churches ect… [Barbed Wire Britain]

(Workshop) Immigration from the south to north America and the Mexican border

A short film and a talk about neoliberal plans which are destroying life, culture and the environment in Mexico, which are the reasons why so many people are moving and looking at the American ‘nightmare’ [People from Oaxaca(Mexico)]

(Workshop) Getting arrested and jailed by US Border security – a personal account

A brief talk about getting arrested and jailed by the US Border security while in transit from Mexico City. The tragicomic aspects of what happened to the Indymedia reporter and the serious issues surrounding the behaviour of US border police and the policies they enforce [Indymedia]

(Workshop) The rise of neo-liberal economic policies in India, particularly Special Economic Zones

A film a talk and a discussion on the rise of neo-liberal economic policies in India, particularly Special Economic [Indian Workers in Birmingham]

(Workshop) Detention and deportation of asylum seekers

Personal account of detention and deportation [All African Women Group (London)]

(Workshop) Resistance and the Abolition of Detention Centres

The current situation of detention and deportation is a recent occurrence, strategies of resistance are numerous but it is easy to become overwhelmed by the scale and bureaucracy surrounding these issues. In this workshop we seek to present an overview of the various forms of support and resistance already taking place including:

• A one to one detainee support.
• B community campaigns (anti deportation campaigns)
• C demonstrations and campaigns supporting resistance inside detention centers
• D targeting companies that profit from detention and deportation
• E welfare based migrant organisations.

(Workshop) "Research and destroy”

"Research and destroy: Researching corporations isn't a dark art. This workshop will empower and inform activists about different areas in which to find out information." [Corporate Watch UK]

(Workshop) Labour and Immigration controls in the UK

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(Workshop) Moving gender An open discussion on the relationship between national borders, gender and sexuality. Or, how any challenge to one requires a challenge to the other. Everyday of our lives we are confronted with rigid ideas of gender and sexuality and thus our 'appropriate' roles in society. Anyone who does not conform is seen as 'other' or 'strange' or even 'dangerous'. In a society that always attempts to mark someone as 'other' (by race/sexuality/gender or any other means) we refuse to accept this present condition of nations and borders, the containment of people behind false divides that serves only to profit those in power. DetailedDescription

(Workshop)Our Borders

How we recognise / challenge our own borders/ barriers towards others.
-Groups. Communication. Inclusion / exclusion.
-Race and ethnicity, class, creed/ ideology, gender/ sexuality, and other elemsnts that define our identity can also become barriers towards others and obstacles to mutual understanding.

(Workshop)Activist trauma support

Politically active people sometimes experience violent situations that can lead to a psychological trauma. This shouldn’t be the private problem of an individual, but it is a method of governmental repression that we have to fight. To be able to recognize a trauma is the first step to do something against it. So in this workshop we will talk about the questions, what is a trauma, what are its symptoms and what are possibilities to deal with it. [Out Of Action]

(Workshop)FACQS: Feminist Anti-Capitalist Queer Superheroes

Feminist Anti-Captialist Queer Superheroes or FACQS, pronounced ‘FACTS’ as in “armed with the…” will be self-created, self-designed superheroes with various feminist, anti-capitalist and/or queer ‘powers’ chosen by their creator -- perhaps based on one's skills, knowledges, magic talents, etc. More Information