Unity Centre Glasgow

At a time when much of the media has been using the economic recession to attack migrants and immigration it becomes more important now than ever to spell out alternatives to current trends in immigration policy.

We are therefore extremely pleased to announce this public meeting Unity has organised for Friday next week. Please help us by publicising it amongst your friends and networks. Thank you.

Friday 8th May 2009: PUBLIC MEETING; Free - All Welcome!

‘FORTRESS EUROPE: How immigration controls destroy civil liberties and human rights’

with Teresa Hayter, author of ‘Open Borders - the case against Immigration Controls’

7.00pm - 9.00pm Wellington Church; 77 Southpark Avenue, off University Avenue, G12 8LE

More information here:

Ministers renege on Dungavel child pledge

Sunday Herald; Sunday 19th April 2009

19 youngsters admitted to detention centre this year

By Catie Guitart

LAST TUESDAY, Sulaiti Wahuyo and her two-year-old son Gabriel were fingerprinted, photographed, issued with a number and an identification card, which must be carried at all times - and then imprisoned.

While not convicted of any crime, as failed asylum-seekers, she and her child were incarcerated in Scotland’s notorious Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre. Their plight is an indictment of the UK government which promised the people of Scotland last year that no more children and their families would be held like prisoners behind barbed wire.

Read more of the Sunday Herald’s article here:

Sulaiti and her 2 year old son Gabriel are currently being detained in Yarl’s Wood IRC and are due to be forcibly removed from UK to Uganda on Wednesday 22th April 2009 20.00 on Flight KQ101 to Kampala. More info here.

SATURDAY 18th APRIL: Edinburgh

BENEFIT CEILIDH raising money for the Unity Centre

Friends of the UNITY Centre have organised a Scottish Ceilidh in Edinburgh to raise money for the UNITY Centre [A ‘Ceilidh (pronounced “Kay-Lee”) is a traditional Scottish social gathering with traditional music, dancing, and storytelling.] More info here