Watch this: Media links
Scottish TV coverage of solidarity protest for the Asad Gul Alban family detained in June 2008.Click here to see the short film and interview with supporters of the family
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“Land of No Return”
All across the country, communities are organising themselves to stop their friends and neighbours from being deported. From lobbying the Home Office to foiling dawn raids, the resistance will stop at nothing to keep failed asylum seekers safe in Britain.
Rachel Stevenson and Harriet Grant, ‘The Guardian‘, Friday June 13 2008 [Includes interview with people in the Unity Centre]
Full story and video link here
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Here’s a selection of short films from the ‘Schnews’ website
These films are ‘information for action’ - to inspire or inform you to get involved in the issues covered in them, produced in Brighton by SchMOVIES
“UNITY“ – Congolese Refugee Solidarity Demo, March 07
As part of a nationwide solidarity campaign for asylum seekers being sent back to the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo, Glasgow No Borders and the solidarity centre, Unity, targeted the Eagle Building the centre for all immigration decisions in the city. (7.20 mins, wmv format, 10.8meg, March 2007)
* * * Here’s another film from Schnews from 2007 about Harmondsworth Detention Centre
”REAL HARM” Harmondsworth Detention Centre 2007
Reportage from Harmondsworth Detention Centre, where a solidarity noise demo was held to show support for those locked up there. SchMOVIES speaks to Enid, an ex-detainee from Harmondsworth who while exposing the brutality of the detention system also describes what life can be like for those trapped in the process. (6:30 mins, mpeg1 format, Feb 2007)
* * * Below is a film about direct action at the Glasgow reporting centre which led to the setting up of the Unity Centre
“The Early Bird Catches The Firm” Nov 2005
Brand Street Immigration Centre is where all asylum seekers in Glasgow have to sign on weekly - and where dawn raids are carried out.
This film covers an early morning action on the centre in November 2005 which disrupted at least one dawn raid that we know about. There are weekly demos at Brand St and a local info shop has been set up directly opposite the centre for advice and support for asylum seekers. (4min, 40meg, mpeg format, March 2006) You can download the film from here
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“Divide and Fall”- No Borders Camp September 2007
Coverage of the first No Borders Camp in the UK. Cheekily situated near Gatwick Airport where yet another refugee detention centre is being built, the camp became a hub for activists to exchange ideas, swap tactics and keep the issue of Britain’s draconian treatment of asylum seekers in the public eye. (12 mins, wmv format, 19.9meg, September 2007)
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Here are some films made by Glasgow based Camcorder Guerillas
“THOSE LEFT BEHIND”
What is it like to teach in a school where pupils simply vanish without trace? How do you feel about losing your best mate at school, something you never thought could happen? ‘Those left behind ’ speaks of
The Vucaj family lived in the Kingsway community in
Click here to download If you wish to buy a copy of this film on DVD, please send a cheque or postal order for £7 to ‘Camcorder Guerillas’. at Camcorder Guerillas,Gmac,
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Movies on YouTube
G8 Protest at Dungavel 2005 - Click here for the film