NO BORDERS! - oxford indymedia film screening on refugees, asylum-seekers and immigration detention
Thursday 17th June - 7.30pm - Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road
"Barbed Wire Beat" - Anne-Marie Sweeney's inspiring film about the 10-year resistance to Campsfield Detention Centre, outside Oxford.
"Woomera 2002" - Ska TV's film about the extraordinary fence-busting protests against Woomera Detention Centre in the Australian desert.
PLUS other films and discussion.
Thursday 17th June - 7.30pm - Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road
"Barbed Wire Beat" - Anne-Marie Sweeney's inspiring film about the 10-year resistance to Campsfield Detention Centre, outside Oxford.
"Woomera 2002" - Ska TV's film about the extraordinary fence-busting protests against Woomera Detention Centre in the Australian desert.
PLUS other films and discussion.
(Stills from "Barbed Wire Beat")
For more than a decade Oxford has been the unwilling host to Campsfield House, the first immigration detention centre in the UK, where people are imprisoned without trial for indeterminate time having committed no crime. Instead of concentrating on this grim history, Anne-Marie Sweeney's film "Barbed Wire Beat" focuses on the resistance to the prison. In a series of vivd scenes, we see the unity of detainees and ex-detainees with a very wide range of Oxford citizens, and their linking-up with campaigners from other parts of the world.
"Woomera 2002" by Ska TV from Melbourne documents the human suffering inside one of Australia's immigration detention centres, and the amazing resistance to it, which caught the Australian authorities completely by surprise.
Teresa Hayter from the Campaign to Close Campsfield, and author of "Open Borders", will contribute to a discussion on the No Borders campaign, Barbed Wire Europe, and other current campaigns. Campaigners from Bicester Refugee Support will update us on their humanitarian struggle against the accommodation centre being built there.
For more than a decade Oxford has been the unwilling host to Campsfield House, the first immigration detention centre in the UK, where people are imprisoned without trial for indeterminate time having committed no crime. Instead of concentrating on this grim history, Anne-Marie Sweeney's film "Barbed Wire Beat" focuses on the resistance to the prison. In a series of vivd scenes, we see the unity of detainees and ex-detainees with a very wide range of Oxford citizens, and their linking-up with campaigners from other parts of the world.
"Woomera 2002" by Ska TV from Melbourne documents the human suffering inside one of Australia's immigration detention centres, and the amazing resistance to it, which caught the Australian authorities completely by surprise.
Teresa Hayter from the Campaign to Close Campsfield, and author of "Open Borders", will contribute to a discussion on the No Borders campaign, Barbed Wire Europe, and other current campaigns. Campaigners from Bicester Refugee Support will update us on their humanitarian struggle against the accommodation centre being built there.
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