No Borders - Film Night and Meeting

bristol | community | announcement Saturday January 26, 2008 00:27 by bristol no borders

Tuesday 29th January @ Kebele Social Centre, 14 Robertson Road, Easton, Bristol

Doors open - 6.30pm
Short films and discussion - 7pm-8pm
Bristol No Borders meeting - 8pm-9pm

Those Left Behind

Bristol No Borders invites you to an evening of short films about the immigration, detention and deportation machines followed by its fortnightly meeting.

Featuring:

Those Left Behind
What is it like to teach in a school where pupils simply vanish without trace? How do you feel about losing your best mate at school, something you never thought could happen? 'Those Left Behind ’ speaks of Glasgow's 'disappeared'.
The Vucaj family lived in the Kingsway community in Glasgow for 6 years, before they were forcibly removed. This short film gives voice to the people of Kingsway and help us understand how deeply integrated and important Asylum Seeking families have become in the communities in which they have settled. It also allows us to see how traumatic and disturbing it is when friends and neighbours disappear without trace.
Those Left Behind explores the impact that forced detention has upon the communities in which Asylum Seekers have settled.

Divide and Fall – No Borders Camp September 2007
Coverage of the first No Borders Camp in the UK. Cheekily situated near Gatwick Airport where yet another refugee detention centre is being built, the camp became a hub for activists to exchange ideas, swap tactics and keep the issue of Britain's draconian treatment of asylum seekers in the public eye.

(excerpts from) No Lager Nowhere – Freedom of Movement and the Right to Stay
Camps (lager) for refugees and migrants - everywhere in Europe you can find these places, that cannot be found on any usual map. Camps aim to exclude and deter people, and serve as a filter for the labourmarkets. Camps create a hierachy of rights and represent a cornerstone of global apartheid. It is time to draw new maps, maps of resistance: to tear down the visible and invisible fences and walls, to attack all lagers and detention centers by any means necessary.
The film documents various experiences and actions from eight countries: a collection of testimonies, but mainly a patchwork of images of resistance, which should encourage and inspire to intensify and to transnationalise the struggles against the "lagerregimes".

Divide and Fall

No Lager Nowhere