Stop Deportations Belfast Solidarity Weds 23 March (2 Viewers)

[StreetSeen]

Stop The Deportations
Cead Mile Failte!
Who are they fooling??

Wednesday 23 March 1 p.m.

Irish Tourist Board,
Castle Street,
Belfast

Please bring banners/ placards and noise!!


Speakers: Mick O’Reilly TGWU
Davy Carlin Chair ARN
Jon Glackin Co-Ordinator Street Seen
Paddy Hughes Dep. Pres Queens University

Co-inciding with protests occurring in Dublin, London and Amsterdam against Deportations

This is an urgent appeal..we must put pressure on the Racist Goverment Policies...

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68976&search_text=RAR

Stories coming from deportations would make your blood boil....
One woman in an act of protest to her deportation stripped her clothes off as the only means of protest open for her. 5 male Garda held her down as they forcibly sedated her by needle!!
A 12 year old child is sitting alone in Lagos Airport in his school Uniform totally overwhelmed and alone after being forcibly deported.. Joe Higgins TD wired £200 to the child.. the child was mugged outside the airport!!
More and more horror stories are coming in...
Lets not let the Irish Goverment away with this..
Cead Mile Failte..my arse!

 

[Blackenedflag]

One woman in an act of protest to her deportation stripped her clothes off as the only means of protest open for her. 5 male Garda held her down as they forcibly sedated her by needle!!



Where and when did this happen?

 

[StreetSeen]

One woman in an act of protest to her deportation stripped her clothes off as the only means of protest open for her. 5 male Garda held her down as they forcibly sedated her by needle!!



Where and when did this happen?

Events occured at the Airport... details still coming in..was on phone with RAR heads this morning and they say this was the case.. I will be talking with them Monday again and will get all the details! some of the crap that went on you couldnt make up or believe!!

 

[Blackenedflag]

Good work. Keep us updated.

 

[mackle]

Wheres Castle Street?

 

[StreetSeen]

Wheres Castle Street?

Belfast City Centre...near the Hercules Bar..lets hope we get enough down..it would be rude not to pay them a visit inside in this weather

 

[Cormcolash]

I'll be working, dammit if it was Tuesday I could have made it.

 

[StreetSeen]

shameless bump!!!

Things looking good for Belfast action...with similar solidarity actions in London and Amsterdam at the same time....lets hope we can make it more significant than a photo-op

 

[broken arm]

Stories coming from deportations would make your blood boil....
One woman in an act of protest to her deportation stripped her clothes off as the only means of protest open for her. 5 male Garda held her down as they forcibly sedated her by needle!!
A 12 year old child is sitting alone in Lagos Airport in his school Uniform totally overwhelmed and alone after being forcibly deported.. Joe Higgins TD wired £200 to the child.. the child was mugged outside the airport!!
More and more horror stories are coming in...
Lets not let the Irish Goverment away with this..

don't want to pick but these need to be substantiated. don't lose credibility.

I mean " 5 male Garda held her down as they forcibly sedated her by needle"

 

[StreetSeen]

details as you appreciate are sketchy.. im operating in Belfast.. this was the latest news I recieved this morning...if you get down to the Dub protest Im sure someone will have all the info you need...hope this helps! maybe give rosanna/mark a ring?


Residents Against Racism
in conjunction with Palmerstown Community school
Street Seen
Press release:

Stop the deportation of Children

Demo 23/3/5
12.30 outside the Dáil

Residents Against Racism have called a demo for wednesday 23rd March at 12.30 to
protest at the governments continued policy of deporting children. Spokesperson
Rosanna Flynn said "Speaking in December the Justice Minister Michael McDowell
stated that he recognised the moral force of allowing those asylum seekers who
have children here in school for a lengthy period of time to stay. In March of
this year his response has been to deport those very people. Many of these
children and their families had integrated very well into their local
communities, which is meant to be taken into account when casting judgement on
their cases. A picture quickly emerges of a Justice minister who says one thing
and does the exact opposite. On the recent mass deportation there were several
mothers who had been separated from their children, these children now remain in
Ireland parentless. Also on the last deportation at least one of the passengers
was sedated and a needle attached to them with a drip for the duration of the
deportation. There was also a teenage boy due to sit his leaving cert deported
leading to protests from his classmates in Palmerstown Community School. These
cases are only the tip of the iceberg as there were many deported who we had no
contact from before or after their deportations, many of these could have
similar stories to tell. Rosanna continued by saying "Many of the children who
were deported could face the brutal practice of Female Genital Mutilation, a
procedure which many young girls die from. Their education will be very
different from that which they have been studying for the last several years in
Ireland, that is if they are lucky enough to get an education at all in Nigeria.
The Irish government have a moral obligation to protect those who are most
vulnerable, instead we have a system with no transparency or Justice led by a
Minster who lies.Residents Against Racism are calling on the government to stop
deporting children, furthermore we are calling for an independent inquiry into
the last deportation and for those people to be brought back"

Protests are also being held in Belfast, Derry, London and Amsterdam.

For further details call:

Rosanna Flynn 087 6662060
Mark Grehan 087 7974622

jon glackin 0774 327 5533

 

[broken arm]

details as you appreciate are sketchy.. im operating in Belfast.. this was the latest news I recieved this morning...if you get down to the Dub protest Im sure someone will have all the info you need...hope this helps! maybe give rosanna/mark a ring?

well im not in the country so i can't make the protest. I'm just saying you'd want to be careful posting stuff like that without certainty that it actually happened is all.

 

[StreetSeen]

solidarity actions will be occuring in Belfast, Derry, London, Amsterdam, Glasgow and liverpool so far...

picket protest at your Irish tourist board wherever u is!!

 

[StreetSeen]

Around 70 heads turned up for the Belfast protest...fairly lively and plenty of media coverage to get the truth out there....

early reports suggest up to 700 attended the Dublin protest and 10 in Amsterdam!!!
Lets keep the pressure on.....