Monthly Archives: July 2011

Dale Farm, Essex, is the UK’s largest Travellers? community, consisting of nearly a hundred separate properties, owned mainly by travellers of Irish heritage and Romani families, lying well outside the village and made up of extended family plots or yards … Continue reading →

Bristol Refugee Rights has called for a demo in response to the closure of IAS last Friday… WE NEED ASYLUM ADVICE IN BRISTOL! Immigration Advisory Service has closed. Without expert representation, the UK asylum system is a fiasco, weighted against … Continue reading →

Still at Kebele, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol BS5 6JY. Next Meeting  Thursday 22nd September  Then fortnightly.

IAS staff in Bristol were informed by cleaners in their building that bailiffs had been in on Friday. Without warning they have closed, more than 650 active cases, (asylum, human rights, domestic violence) in Bristol alone, with thousands accross UK. … Continue reading →

At 11.00am on Tuesday 5th of July activists attended and disrupted a Group 4 (G4S) consultation in Cardiff. G4S are bidding to run a service called COMPASS ( Commercial and Operational Managers Procuring Asylum Support Services). This is a project … Continue reading →

Yesterday, Monday 4th July, some 90 families at Dale Farm, the UK’s largest Traveller community, were delivered final notices of eviction, giving families until midnight on August 31 to abandon their homes, or face their entire community being bulldozed. The … Continue reading →

On Saturday morning around thirty people blockaded the main gates and entrances to Coquelles detention centre and police station in retaliation to the mass evictions and arrests of migrants in Calais and the ongoing abuses resulting from French and European … Continue reading →