Invitation to join in first annual international action against immigration detention, April 2006

The aim is:

• to spread opposition to detention
  
• create contacts between anti-detention groups in different countries,
  
• move towards a more prepared and larger second period of international anti detention actions in April 2007

Actions planned are:

• In Australia: a :: convergence at Villawood detention centre in Sydney
  
• In the UK, demonstrations at:
  
• :: Harmondsworth and :: Colnbrook detention centres
  
• :: Campsfield detention centre
  
• Communications House reporting centre in central London
  
• In Germany: various actions to be advised.
  
• And others to be notified

Please send updates and details on events or actions to:

• info (at) barbedwirebritain.org.uk for the British web site
  www.barbedwirebritain.org.uk
  
• refugeeaction (at) hotmail.com for the Melbourne web site www.rac-vic.org
  
• info (at) racnsw.net for the Sydney web site www.racnsw.net
  
• rran (at) arachnet.net.au for the Perth web site www.rran-wa.org
  
• admin (at) ruralaustraliansforrefugees.org for Rural Australians for Refugees

Demonstrations, meetings and other public events can be organised at:

• immigration detention centres
  
• in town and city centres
  
• at reporting centres and similar places where migrants report to the authorities and from which they may be removed to a detention centre or deported
  
• at government offices, e.g. interior ministry
  
• at offices of private companies that manage detention centres

This call follows many years of campaigning around the world, including European days of action on :: 31 January 2004 and :: 2 April 2005, when there were some fifty anti-detention actions from Scandinavia to southern Italy and from Spain to Greece, the biggest being led by migrants and in the south of Europe.