Comments on: Notes from the 6th Great Extinction http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5866 caítlin Tue, 29 May 2007 16:40:23 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5866 Well folks. Good news and bad news. Good news: Lordorice and Imelda are not going tomorrow. Their removal has been stayed with no new fight scheduled (yet). Bad news: The Home Office are really digging their heels in. It took for us to schedule Judicial Review proceedings and issue a press release for them to back down and accept that they hadn't properly immunised Imelda [yanno, the one year old they're forcing to a malaria zone she's never stepped foot in]. I won't even get in to what shit they're trying to pull because this screen is quite pretty and I would rather not put my foot through it. But rest assured, we haven't given up. Well folks. Good news and bad news.

Good news: Lordorice and Imelda are not going tomorrow. Their removal has been stayed with no new fight scheduled (yet).

Bad news: The Home Office are really digging their heels in. It took for us to schedule Judicial Review proceedings and issue a press release for them to back down and accept that they hadn’t properly immunised Imelda [yanno, the one year old they're forcing to a malaria zone she's never stepped foot in].
I won’t even get in to what shit they’re trying to pull because this screen is quite pretty and I would rather not put my foot through it. But rest assured, we haven’t given up.

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5865 caítlin Mon, 28 May 2007 18:06:51 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5865 Tomorrow is crunchtime for Lordorice and Imelda. We're twiddling our thumbs waiting to hear the court's verdict before we decide our next plan of action. Amazingly, there is a potential that the fight could be taken to France if she boards that BA plane... Sophisticated kitten purr thankyous to everyone who has helped us so far. On a related note, UNHCR in Canada has launched a shiver-inducing photo campaign to battle misonceptions about refugees. Chizeck it: http://www.unhcr.ca/help/ Tomorrow is crunchtime for Lordorice and Imelda. We’re twiddling our thumbs waiting to hear the court’s verdict before we decide our next plan of action. Amazingly, there is a potential that the fight could be taken to France if she boards that BA plane… Sophisticated kitten purr thankyous to everyone who has helped us so far.

On a related note, UNHCR in Canada has launched a shiver-inducing photo campaign to battle misonceptions about refugees. Chizeck it:
http://www.unhcr.ca/help/

]]> By: Duncan http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5858 Duncan Thu, 24 May 2007 06:03:23 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5858 That is freakin' awesome. Hopefully it will go beyond the postponement. It's good to have truly positive news like that. Nice work Caítlin and anyone else here who has helped out. Keep it up! That is freakin’ awesome. Hopefully it will go beyond the postponement. It’s good to have truly positive news like that.

Nice work Caítlin and anyone else here who has helped out. Keep it up!

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5848 caítlin Tue, 22 May 2007 18:42:46 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5848 Awesome news tonight peoples!! We had a great protest today outside city hall, a good turnout with a lot of media attention (it was a fuckin' circus) and LORDORICE AND IMELDA'S DEPORTATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED!!! I'm not 100% sure how this link works because I need some plugin thingy, but there is a positive news report on local media here [i think] http://u.tv/newsroom/onair.asp?q=hi&pt=n along with tonnes of articles around the place like this one: http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=82410&pt=n and Lordorice and ourselves have been interviewed extensively. High five! Tomorrow this fine piece of revolutionary tail is having a day off but we have a good while now to exert political pressure, exploit media links and network with the people who showed up today, so y'all are urged to keep sending me faxes to Liam Byrne and Willie Walsh, keep joining the [currently theoretical] mailing list, email your local UK Embassys and send me your messages of support for Lordorice, who is beyond touched. Yet again, thank you guys sooo much for your part in this. I would apologise for swamping/boring you all with this... 'cept I'm not. saorise_ionannas_aonad@yahoo.co.uk Awesome news tonight peoples!! We had a great protest today outside city hall, a good turnout with a lot of media attention (it was a fuckin’ circus) and LORDORICE AND IMELDA’S DEPORTATION HAS BEEN POSTPONED!!!
I’m not 100% sure how this link works because I need some plugin thingy, but there is a positive news report on local media here [i think]
http://u.tv/newsroom...ir.asp?q=hi&pt=n along with tonnes of articles around the place like this one: http://u.tv/newsroom...sp?id=82410&pt=n and Lordorice and ourselves have been interviewed extensively. High five!
Tomorrow this fine piece of revolutionary tail is having a day off but we have a good while now to exert political pressure, exploit media links and network with the people who showed up today, so y’all are urged to keep sending me faxes to Liam Byrne and Willie Walsh, keep joining the [currently theoretical] mailing list, email your local UK Embassys and send me your messages of support for Lordorice, who is beyond touched.

Yet again, thank you guys sooo much for your part in this. I would apologise for swamping/boring you all with this… ‘cept I’m not.
saorise_ionannas_aonad [at] yahoo [dot] co.uk

]]> By: rippin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5843 rippin Mon, 21 May 2007 21:37:57 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5843 That's awesome! Just look what a little Irish girl with a big heart can do! Hope all goes well tomorrow I know thats all I'll be thinking of. I wish I could be there. You can add my name again but I'm sure you already have. Good luck (but hey you don't need that your Irish!) Jon Freedom, Equality, Unity That’s awesome! Just look what a little Irish girl with a big heart can do! Hope all goes well tomorrow I know thats all I’ll be thinking of. I wish I could be there. You can add my name again but I’m sure you already have. Good luck (but hey you don’t need that your Irish!)

Jon

Freedom, Equality, Unity

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5841 caítlin Mon, 21 May 2007 19:02:47 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5841 Hey lads! Just a wee update. Tomorrow we are having a protest in Belfast against Lordorice's deportation with speakers from Amnesty Intl, Refugee rights and antiracist groups, and one genius pinko with a killer rack known only as Caítlin! Our campaign has been endorsed by human rights lawyers, NGOs, trade unions and 4 of the 5 main political parties. Sinn Féin, the second largest party, have issued a statement, have had all their MLAs and TDs sign the fax and tomorrow, it is expected that their president, Gerry Adams, and the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuiness, will formally write on Lordorice's behalf. Tomorrow's protest is expected to be covered by the regional BBC, associated press and local media, as well as a feature in the largest paper in the region. You might sniff at media and political involvement, but it could make a real difference to these people. There is still one more thing y'all can do: check out the front page of www.ncadc.org.uk for a model fax to send to the CEO of british airways urging him not to collude with removals of people facing persecution. As ever, you can email me to have your name added if you don't have access to a fax machine. Thanks again to all of you. I don't know that we would have gotten so far without your help :) Hey lads!
Just a wee update. Tomorrow we are having a protest in Belfast against Lordorice’s deportation with speakers from Amnesty Intl, Refugee rights and antiracist groups, and one genius pinko with a killer rack known only as Caítlin!
Our campaign has been endorsed by human rights lawyers, NGOs, trade unions and 4 of the 5 main political parties. Sinn Féin, the second largest party, have issued a statement, have had all their MLAs and TDs sign the fax and tomorrow, it is expected that their president, Gerry Adams, and the Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuiness, will formally write on Lordorice’s behalf. Tomorrow’s protest is expected to be covered by the regional BBC, associated press and local media, as well as a feature in the largest paper in the region.
You might sniff at media and political involvement, but it could make a real difference to these people.
There is still one more thing y’all can do: check out the front page of http://www.ncadc.org.uk for a model fax to send to the CEO of british airways urging him not to collude with removals of people facing persecution. As ever, you can email me to have your name added if you don’t have access to a fax machine.

Thanks again to all of you. I don’t know that we would have gotten so far without your help :)

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5824 caítlin Thu, 17 May 2007 18:21:12 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5824 Some bad news this evening folks. Just got word that Lordorice and Imelda have been given a new deportation date, the 23rd May. So basically, we have nine days to try to stop them being sent to Cameroon, a land completely unknown to Imelda and the stuff of nightmares for Lordorice. We're trying to organise a demo and stuff over here, and the only thing I can think of for you guys to do elsewhere is fire off an email of the models at http://www.ncadc.org.uk/newszine82/lodorice.html to the brit embassies wherever you are: http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029395231, email me to have your names added to the faxes if you haven't already,(saoirse_ionannas_aonad@yahoo.co.uk), and pass it on to whoever you know who might have some sympathy. Please help us in this last push for Lordorice and Imelda. What really wont take you long could be the difference between life and death. I still believe theres hope. Some bad news this evening folks. Just got word that Lordorice and Imelda have been given a new deportation date, the 23rd May. So basically, we have nine days to try to stop them being sent to Cameroon, a land completely unknown to Imelda and the stuff of nightmares for Lordorice.
We’re trying to organise a demo and stuff over here, and the only thing I can think of for you guys to do elsewhere is fire off an email of the models at http://www.ncadc.org...zine82/lodorice.html to the brit embassies wherever you are: http://www.fco.gov.u...mp;cid=1007029395231, email me to have your names added to the faxes if you haven’t already,(saoirse_ionannas_aonad [at] yahoo [dot] co.uk), and pass it on to whoever you know who might have some sympathy.
Please help us in this last push for Lordorice and Imelda. What really wont take you long could be the difference between life and death. I still believe theres hope.

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5823 caítlin Thu, 17 May 2007 10:00:58 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5823 Its insanely cruel. Its also funny just how complicit things like airlines are (and media, who don't like to touch these stories until a politician says its ok). What pisses me off is they make it look like these stories are just the odd accident, but its endemic. Two of three local airports were used for renditions flights for suspects here too, which is so, so fucked up. Anyway, that story was so short notice, it was a pretty impossible task. I haven't heard anything, so I'm assuming its bad news... I don't really know what can be done when someone is actually in their country. *sigh* Thanks for your help with Lordorice and Imelda though :) They are still in detention (which in a sense is good, because they're still here, but is also bad because they're in limbo and those places are horrible. There was a hunger-strike in this particular place last week.) Still no news on a new flight and some local politicians (and thus hopefully the media) are involved, so there is still hope. What sucks though is that people have been (rightly) working their asses off to get these two home, but we know deportations aren't going to end there and we know it'll be so much harder to get people moving again. Fighting deportations is really an uphill struggle. A good resource for anyone interested is NCADC in the UK, www.ncadc.org.uk and Human Rights Watch issue virtually daily releases about refugees on http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=refugees_news Its insanely cruel. Its also funny just how complicit things like airlines are (and media, who don’t like to touch these stories until a politician says its ok). What pisses me off is they make it look like these stories are just the odd accident, but its endemic.
Two of three local airports were used for renditions flights for suspects here too, which is so, so fucked up.
Anyway, that story was so short notice, it was a pretty impossible task. I haven’t heard anything, so I’m assuming its bad news… I don’t really know what can be done when someone is actually in their country. *sigh*
Thanks for your help with Lordorice and Imelda though :) They are still in detention (which in a sense is good, because they’re still here, but is also bad because they’re in limbo and those places are horrible. There was a hunger-strike in this particular place last week.) Still no news on a new flight and some local politicians (and thus hopefully the media) are involved, so there is still hope.
What sucks though is that people have been (rightly) working their asses off to get these two home, but we know deportations aren’t going to end there and we know it’ll be so much harder to get people moving again. Fighting deportations is really an uphill struggle.
A good resource for anyone interested is NCADC in the UK, http://www.ncadc.org.uk and Human Rights Watch issue virtually daily releases about refugees on http://www.hrw.org/doc/?t=refugees_news

]]> By: Duncan http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5822 Duncan Thu, 17 May 2007 03:20:09 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5822 crap, I think I was too late for this one. How the hell do they even begin to justify deporting these people when they're so clearly traumatised and facing danger? fucking bureaucratic government bullshit. crap, I think I was too late for this one.

How the hell do they even begin to justify deporting these people when they’re so clearly traumatised and facing danger?

fucking bureaucratic government bullshit.

]]> By: caítlin http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5820 caítlin Wed, 16 May 2007 18:08:36 +0000 http://g7welcomingcommittee.com/blog/archives/notes-from-the-6th-great-extinction/#comment-5820 Fuck it. Took out a subscription to an e-fax thingy. Anyone who gets this message in the next 2 hours please send me an email with your details so I can fax on your behalf. Fuck it. Took out a subscription to an e-fax thingy. Anyone who gets this message in the next 2 hours please send me an email with your details so I can fax on your behalf.

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