BritCits

Another death in UK immigration detention : the latest fatality highlights lack of accountability in the management of short stay detention centres.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/ali-mcginley/another-death-in-uk-immigration-detention

The death of a Pakistani man in Pennine House detention centre (Manchester airport) last month is the latest in a series of tragic deaths in detention in the UK. Mr Mehmood, 43, who is said to have been returning home voluntarily, died at the centre following a ‘medical episode’, the circumstances of which have been described by the Home Office as not suspicious. This is the first such death in one of the UK’s ‘short term holding facilities’. For years, many of us have been asking questions about the availability of rules to govern these shorter-stay detention centres. And after this most recent tragedy, it is time for those questions to be answered.
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38degrees :

The government’s rushing through a new law which, if it passes, will stop us running the type of campaigns which have made us who we are. [1] The campaigns which have saved our forests, fought privatisation in the NHS, and defeated the snoopers' charter. [2] The campaigns which have seen 1.7 million of us act together, locally and nationally, for over four years. In fact, if the new law passes, and we continue campaigning as we do now, the office team could even risk being sent to jail.

https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/chloe-smith-lobbying-bill?js=false

Also :
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/08/19/the-new-lobbying-bill-will-criminalise-even-basic-campaigning-by-trade-unions/
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/gagging-hope-not-hate/
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Are there really 71,000 Vietnamese manicurists hidden in the UK?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/reality-check/2013/aug/21/71000-vietnamese-manicurists-hidden-in-the-uk
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No borders: struggling for a global commons.

http://www.tikkun.org/nextgen/no-borders