Designed to Kill: Border Policy & How to Change It

http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/border.php for everyone who didn’t make it, and for everyone who did For a number of years now I’ve worked in the desert on the Mexican-American border with a group that provides humanitarian aid to migrants who are attempting to enter the United States—a journey that claims hundreds of lives every year. We’ve spent years [...]

STARVE THE VULTURES: Analyzing Canada’s prison restructuring

http://againstprison.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/broadsheet.pdf The summer left us in a downpour of repression that sought to bury its discontents beneath the bureaucracy of courts and behind the walls of prison. The end of June marked an encounter between radicals, outlaws, rebels, etc, and the G20 police state in Toronto. A series of prison reforms and amendments to the [...]

Tunisian boat people riot on Italian migrant island

LAMPEDUSA, Italy — Tunisian boat people rioted Monday on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a protest against their imminent deportation under a controversial deal struck between Rome and Tunis last week. “Freedom! Freedom!” shouted some of the migrants at a compound in which hundreds are being held. Some of them started a small fire [...]

Report from Lampedusa, Europe’s mediterranean prison island for migrants (Italy)

First hand accounts from Lampedusa, Europe’s island of shame, as more and more refugees arrive from Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa to be held in an open air prison — if they make it at all. Lampedusa is the very first place where many migrants land after their difficult journey from North Africa. From [...]

No One is Illegal – Vancouver continues campaign to Free Tamil migrants and agianst the Prison World in general (EMPHASIS ADDED)

3 Months Too Long: Free Detained Tamil Refugees! Let them Stay! Scrap Bill C49! Saturday November 27th @ 1pm Vancouver Public Library (Corner of Georgia and Homer) Join No One is Illegal in a rally and march to call for the immediate release of detained Tamil asylum seekers, and an end to racist and restrictive [...]