Wales

The summer of 2015 has seen a massing of support for refugees in Europe. If even the typically hostile Daily Mail urges us to think of the lives lost in the Mediterranean, inflammatory and completely dehumanising remarks like those of Katie Hopkins, just seem like a distant memory – and the fear towards ‘the other’ that the media had for […]

Call-out for a meeting of groups and networks involved in migration struggles in the UK and beyond. Some of No Borders South Wales and former Bristol No Borders have been working together to restart No Borders groups in this part of the UK. We’d like to invite people from around the UK, and involved in […]

Meeting of No Borders South Wales tonight (plus people from the ShareDYDD destitution network). Filed under: Anti-Deportation Campaigns, Close All Detention Centres, Destitution, Forced Deportation, Meetings Tagged: AntiRaids, Calais Migrant Solidarity, destitution, meeting

We’re going back to the Home Office in Cardiff, as the call for solidarity grows and Bristol demonstrations also continue. See https://detainedvoices.wordpress.com and http://rabble.org.uk for the latest news.Filed under: Close All Detention Centres, Picket Cardiff UKBA, Protest Tagged: #enddetention, 31-33 Newport Road, demonstration, Home Office

This week there has been a rebellion in the majority of the UK’s migration prisons. The wave of strikes initially broke out in Harmondsworth IRC in London – the largest of what are increasingly becoming concentration camps, with people held because of their ethnicity and many sent to their death. There have been strikes in […]

Movement for Justice have organised a demonstration outside the Home Office in Cardiff today for Maimuna Jawo and Josephine anad against the treatment of people who are in the UK after seeking refuge from the practise of FGM. Grant Maimuna Jawo Asylum Now! Grant Josephine Asylum Now! Women fighting to end FGM must be protected! The demonstration, at 31-33 […]

★ Ⓐ★☮★ Revolution Solution in partnership with The Hold Up and No Borders South Wales present: Hip Hop, Live Music and Spoken Word at The Red and Black Umbrella ★Ⓐ★☮★ Liberation is the motive and freedom of expression is welcomed completely, so come and express yourself on the microphone and on the dance floor. Live […]

UKIP are due to open a campaign office in Penarth this Saturday (29th). No Borders South Wales is working with South Wales Anarchists and others to hand out leaflets and counter their racist lies with a demonstration. Our leaflet busts some immigration myths that have been peddled by politicians, media moguls and others in an attempt to […]

The No Borders South Wales noise demo was reported on Indymedia: You can read the full report here. We plan to hold another demonstration soon. Come to our next meeting on Tuesday 21st October at 8pm to find out more. Opposing borders for a free and equal world.Filed under: Comment

There are several interesting meetings coming up in Cardiff over the next few weeks: 1) Anti-Raids Network: 30th Sept, Red Sea Cafe on City Rd, 7pm Organising against immigration raids through community solidarity and practical action. 2) No Borders Introduction and Meeting: 6th Oct, Cathays Community Centre, 7pm A welcoming session to new people, explaining […]

On the 14th of May this year the Queen gave royal ascension to the Immigration Bill. This bill had been launched on October 9th 2013 and sponsored by the Home Secretary Theresa May. It outlined the Coalition government’s new approach to what it considered to be the key problems of the immigration sector. Hopefully this […]

Hidden among the stories of the past few months, the crisis in Iraq, conflict in Ukraine and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, there have been the occasional underplayed article involving boat loads of migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. By and large these stories refer to migrants attempting to sail from Libya to either Italy […]

No Borders South Wales, with Stop NATO Cymru, has called for a day of action against racism, prisons and borders. This is Tuesday 2nd September. There is a planned demonstration in Cardiff. We welcome other solidarity actions for those unable to make it to Cardiff. A key means through which NATO and its constituent members […]

 Full call-out and final draft of poster coming soon… Save the date: Tuesday 2nd September!   Get involved by coming to our next meeting: Monday 25th August at 7pm at the Red and Black Umbrella.Filed under: Meetings, Picket Cardiff UKBA, Protest Tagged: 31-33 Newport Road, day of action, Home Office

No meeting this Monday, as many of us will be out of Cardiff. Next meeting will be Monday August 25th - From 7pm – 8pm at the Red and Black Umbrella Social Centre. We will be also going to eat or drink together afterwards. This will depend on what those present want to do.  Filed under: Meetings Tagged: meeting, […]

We plan to meet fortnightly to build campaigns in the South Wales area as well as looking to our day of action during the NATO summit in Newport this September. The next meeting will be on Monday 4th August at 7pm at the Red and Black Umbrella Social Centre on Clifton Street, Adamsdown. We aim […]

Racist vans, harassment of migrants via text messages from private companies, cuts to legal aid, cuts to English language learning provision, cuts in support services - and phone-lines that people now struggle to use…and more to come from the new Immigration Bill - some might just conclude that the government’s policies are an attack on the vulnerable, but […]

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URGENT CALL OUT TO ALL THE ANTIFASCISTS IN BRITAIN A WHITE PRIDE WORLD WIDE DEMONSTRATION HAS BEEN CALLED BY THE NATIONAL FRONT IN SWANSEA ON THE 5th OF APRIL 2014. THE DEMO IS CO-ORGANISED BY AN UMBRELLA GROUP OF BRITISH WHITE NATIONALIST THAT CALL THEMSELVES 'FOR RACE AND NATION COLLECTIVE'. The National Front is on […]

Emily Yeh has lived in Newport for 18 months, arriving to seek sanctuary from Taiwan. She refused to be an intelligence officer for the Taiwanese government as she became morally uncomfortable with the work she was asked to carry out. She was detained on Tuesday 10th December, “Human Rights Day”, and held at Newport Central Police Station.  As soon […]