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Monday, June 13, 2005
Voices Across Barriers - Close Dungavel Removal Centre
Mass Protest Tuesday 5th July 2005 11.00am to 4.00pm Dungavel Removal Centre Strathaven South Lanarkshire ML10 6R Called by Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees
As the leaders of the worlds most powerful states meet in luxury at Gleneagles hotel for the G8 meeting, hundreds of people - including familieswith children -are imprisoned behind the razor wire of Scotland's shame Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre.
People imprisoned there feel so desperate that many have tried to commit suicide. They have committed no crime yet are treated like criminals. Across Europe many thousands more are locked up like animals. Their only 'crime' has been to flee war, rape, famine and persecution, seeking safety and freedom.
It is the policies of the G8 nations that create these horrific wars and famines that force millions to migrate in the first place. The G8 leaders need to know that we will not stand by while they demonise and whip up racism against refugees. Their scapegoating policies are a crude attempt to divert attention away from their disastrous economic and military adventures which force people to live in abject poverty and then brand refugees as illegal, imprison them and violently deport them to imprisonment, torture and death.
We will not ignore our fellow human beings being locked up in Dungavel. On 5th July thousands of people from across Europe and beyond will show solidarity with those behind the wire by joining an mass protest at Dungavel to demand equal rights and free movement for all, and for an end to detention and deportation.
Dungavel: Solidarity Demonstration called by STUC on 6th September 2003
Transport to Dungavel:
Glasgow, George Square, shuttle bus all morning from 9:30am.
Edinburgh, Waterloo Place at 9.30am and 11.30am.
£5 waged/£3 unwaged
Asylum seekers and refugees travel free
Book your place now:
email glascamref@hotmail.com
or phone 0141 946 6193 for Glasgow
07973 505 172 for Edinburgh.
Inquiries/further information:
Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees
c/o Fire Brigade Union
52 St Enoch Square
Glasgow G1
Office: 0141 946 6193
Peter: Monday and Wednesday, mobile - 0781 784 7249
Margaret: mobile - 07870 286 632
glascamref@yahoo.co.uk
Photos: Stalingrad O'Neill
Source for this Message:
Glasgow Campaign to Welcome Refugees
www.gctwr.org.uk
Bob, 08:42
